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MONTESQUIEU Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de (1689-1755) écriv

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MONTESQUIEU Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de (1689-1755) écrivain.
L.S. "Montesquieu", Bordeaux October 19, 1748, to Évrard TITON DU TILLET in Paris| 1 page and a quarter in-4, address with postmark and red wax seal with his coat of arms.
On his Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence.
[Évrard TITON DU TILLET (1677-1762) was the author of the Parnasse françois, in which he had collected the biographies of the French writers and musicians of his time.] "I have received, Sir, the obliging letter that you did me the honor of writing to me about my new edition of the Grandeur of the Romans, it would be very flattering for me if it had pleased a man as knowledgeable as you and whose mind is filled with so many beautiful things. As soon as he arrived in Bordeaux, he gave to M. de Sarran "your immortal work the French Parnassus"...