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BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (1732–1799).

L.A.S. ‘De Beaumarchais’, Fontainebleau, 10 December 1765, to M. de LA VERGNE, royal notary at La Rochelle; 3 pages in-4, envelope bearing a postmark from Fontainebleau, a small tear where the seal has broken, with no loss of text.

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L.A.S. ‘De Beaumarchais’, Fontainebleau, 10 December 1765, to M. de LA VERGNE, royal notary at La Rochelle; 3 pages in-4, envelope bearing a postmark from Fontainebleau, a small tear where the seal has broken, with no loss of text.

Regarding the management of various financial matters: repayments to be made, annuities to be received, etc. He intends to leave for Brittany in January: ‘I would be obliged if you would try to send me these nine hundred livres to Paris in a bill of exchange payable before the 1st of January, so that I may have this sum in hand before my departure’. He gives news of the Dauphin [who would die on 20 December], who “is still in a very sad state”. He asks that “your letters be sent to the Court, so that wherever the Court may be, they will reach me”…