‘Matériaux pour servir à l’histoire de quelques gens de lettres’, 1784
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MS FR 352, ‘Des femmes : manuscript, ca. 1790’
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‘Matériaux pour servir à l’histoire de quelques gens de lettres’, 1784
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Matériaux pour servir à l’histoire de quelques gens de lettres (1784). The manuscript contains anecdotes about various literary figures, including: Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais, Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, and Charles-Iréné Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre, among others.
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The MS is housed with a second document titled ‘Des femmes’ dating to c.1790.
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23 + 75 pp.
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Later unidentified hands have added two varying titles to the cover of the accompanying document. These are ‘Reflexions et anecdotes diverses sur les femmes’ and ‘Histoire des amours et intrigues des femmes de la cour sous les regnes de Louis XV et Louis XVI’
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