Jacques Pierre Brissot | Two autograph letters signed, with 16 other letters and documents, 1784-91

Jacques Pierre Brissot (and others)

Collection of letters and documents, 1780s and 1790s, comprising:

i-iii) Jean Pierre Brissot de Warville, two autograph letters signed, and a signed receipt: the first letter to the Comité de Salut Public, asking for his letter to be read aloud to the Assembly, protesting his innocence, and requesting that wife be permitted to visit him, 2 pages, 8vo, De l’Abbaie, 21 June 1793; the second letter discussing the King’s procurator and about a case at La Chatelet, 1 page, 8vo, n.d.; the receipt being for money returned to him along with his coat on bail from the Bastille, 1 page, 12 July 1784

iv) Armand Gensonne, autograph address about war and other matters, 13 pages, folio

v) Chretien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, autograph letter signed to M. de Ségur, French Minister at St Petersburg, acknowledging his kindness to M. and Mme. Du Clerq and their friends, and enlisting further protection for them, 2 pages, 4to, Paris, 9 September 1785

vi) William Petty, 2^nd Earl of Shelburne, letter signed, to Malesherbes, referring to M. de Sarsfeldt, 4 pages, 4to, Bowood Park, 20 July 1775

vii) Marie Joseph Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, autograph endorsement signed on a passport, 24 June 1791, one page, folio

viii-xviii) Letters by the Duc de Biron; Anqetil-Duperron to Necker; Langlet de Fresnoy; Lavalette; Dumouriez; a discharge for a member of the Swiss Guard; "Rapport sur L'affaire du Duc de Biron, with revisions, 21 pages, folio; and four other items; altogether approximately 55 pages, various sizes

PROVENANCE:

Christie's, London, 29 June 1995, lot 396