MONTESQUIEU Charles de Secondat de (1689-1755)

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MONTESQUIEU Charles de Secondat de (1689-1755)
L.A. (minute); 1 page and a half in-4. A very corrected draft of a beautiful declaration of love. According to René Pomeau, it is addressed to Mademoiselle de cLermont [Marie-Anne de BourBon-condé, known as Mademoiselle de cLermont (1697-1741)]. "Jay kissed your adorable letter a thousand times. Everything that I read charms me. I leave you the care of my happiness and I put it entirely in your hands. I don't want anything that doesn't come to me from you and that doesn't return to you and to increase yours I will try to acquire all the good qualities that will be able to give me your esteem. You will see me a continuous desire to please you and perhaps you will like it. I love you because I am destined I love you because I see all the beautiful qualities that I have ever wished in a person under whom I have to live. I would like you to feel the pleasure that I want to be with you and the pain that I want to be separated. How much I love to see and hear you. In order to judge this well, you should be able to say that you were not really yourself. One joins the autograph copy of this document by Trophime-Gérard de LaLLY-toLLLendaL. Correspondence 1731-1746 (Complete works, t. XIX, 2013, n° 632)
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