Drôme. Antoine François de Sucy de Clisson (born... Lot 96

Drôme. Antoine François de Sucy de Clisson (born in Valence in 1730), known as the chevalier de Sucy, war commissioner in Valence. 12 L.A.S. to a marquis. Valence and La Merline, 1785-1786. 45 pp. in-4. Long correspondence reporting events in Valencia. Let us quote the beginning of the first letter (6 pp. in-4), which summarizes the whole. He regrets that he could not come to see him "in our little hermitage" during his stay in Valencia, because he wanted to show his gratitude for all that he had done for him "in the affair of our roué". "The artillery has just opened the carnival with dress-up balls from which the Bourgeois are excluded; this separation of metals, which are however not without alloy, caused a sensation. The brocades are an inevitable continuation, at the right time, but the insulting posters were too much; they are against the officers because it is the viscount who broke the ice on that, besides he did well, the balls are more honest and our ladies dance more, I speak for moy who has 3 dancing daughters. In spite of our pleasures, the academic sessions go their train, we awarded today the prizes; one for carpentry, and the other for locksmithing, with accessites, etc.. Daniel won the first []. You will notice that there is not a single engineer in this illustrious academy []. The awards encourage talent, even in the Kingdom of the Blind. The committees are held at the home of the Baron of xxx. They are frequent, he has the gift of speech []. The sect of magnetism, what am I saying! sleepwalkers, the inspired, the revealing, and finally the miracle people, continues more than ever to make people talk about it. It is a deviation from reason, an incredible delirium. Never has the human mind given in a greater error! One of the coryphés has just printed (at the expense of the Reverend and illustrator cy-devant abbot of St R. xx) a work on all these reveries (or madnesses like you).