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CHÉNIER André (1762-1794)
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CHÉNIER André (1762-1794)
L.A.S. "Chénier de St André", Paris September 8, 1790, [to François BARTHÉLEMY]| 1 page and a half in-4.
Very rare letter about one of his first political writings.
François BARTHÉLEMY (1747-1830), future Director, was then chargé d'affaires at the French Embassy in London, where Chénier was also employed, while being allowed to spend the summer in France. It was in August 1790 that, concerned about the political situation, he wrote a Notice to the French people about his real enemies, published on August 28 in the Journal de la Société of 1789, copies of which he sent to his friend for distribution in London. In publishing this letter, Paul Dimoff pointed out the rarity of Chénier's letters, "twenty-five in all"]. "You will know the state of Paris ... from many other voyeurs, and also from the letter I am writing to the Ambassador. I am sending you a small, severe, and severe letter, which I thought it useful to publish in the circumstances in which we are and from which we have not come. I would ask you to give the copies which are in the same package to the Ambassador,
Mrs. de la Luzerne, and Mr. Restif [RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE], to whom I send my best regards, and to send the other to Mrs. Church.
Then he speaks of "a matter in which some of my friends are interested and which I should like to be able to oblige. They have asked me to make some representations in England", concerning "a Mr. Benjamin Banks of Barnstaple, Devonshire, who had made a note of 15 thousand rupees to a Miss Helene Chevalier in the Isle of France, with the promise of repeating the note, and of marrying her, and even of giving her a full donation of his property.
He married her at St. Helen's. It is said that he abused her ignorance of the language, and that he tried to deceive her in a villainous manner| for it was [said] to the parents of this lady that the marriage was not because there were no witnesses who had signed it. Yet I have seen and read a let
L.A.S. "Chénier de St André", Paris September 8, 1790, [to François BARTHÉLEMY]| 1 page and a half in-4.
Very rare letter about one of his first political writings.
François BARTHÉLEMY (1747-1830), future Director, was then chargé d'affaires at the French Embassy in London, where Chénier was also employed, while being allowed to spend the summer in France. It was in August 1790 that, concerned about the political situation, he wrote a Notice to the French people about his real enemies, published on August 28 in the Journal de la Société of 1789, copies of which he sent to his friend for distribution in London. In publishing this letter, Paul Dimoff pointed out the rarity of Chénier's letters, "twenty-five in all"]. "You will know the state of Paris ... from many other voyeurs, and also from the letter I am writing to the Ambassador. I am sending you a small, severe, and severe letter, which I thought it useful to publish in the circumstances in which we are and from which we have not come. I would ask you to give the copies which are in the same package to the Ambassador,
Mrs. de la Luzerne, and Mr. Restif [RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE], to whom I send my best regards, and to send the other to Mrs. Church.
Then he speaks of "a matter in which some of my friends are interested and which I should like to be able to oblige. They have asked me to make some representations in England", concerning "a Mr. Benjamin Banks of Barnstaple, Devonshire, who had made a note of 15 thousand rupees to a Miss Helene Chevalier in the Isle of France, with the promise of repeating the note, and of marrying her, and even of giving her a full donation of his property.
He married her at St. Helen's. It is said that he abused her ignorance of the language, and that he tried to deceive her in a villainous manner| for it was [said] to the parents of this lady that the marriage was not because there were no witnesses who had signed it. Yet I have seen and read a let