CONRART Valentin (1603-1675) poète, philologue,... Lot n° 39

2 autographed POEMS (signed by 3 fermesses), [ca. 1650]; half page in-8 and 1 page in-8 (engraved portrait attached). Charming epistles to the Perriquet sisters. [Marie PERRIQUET (1624-1668), the youngest of the Perriquet sisters, a learned woman, was a friend of Conrart, Paul Pellisson, Blaise Pascal, and the scholar Christian Huygens. Her older sister was named Geneviève (1623-1659)]. To Blessed Sister Marie Perriquet: for the solemnity of her feast day, Candlemas Day (sizain): "Savant & genereuse Vierge, If I dare to offer you a candle According to the use of this day ". To Miss Perriquet the elder, on her earache. Stanzas (4 sizains), with erasures and corrections in the second stanza: "They say everywhere, rare wonder, That you have an earache Which prevents you from resting". Attached is a P.S. on vellum, November 15, 1651: receipt of a quarter of wages as counselor secretary to the King and his Finances.