LE BLANC, Jean-Bernard Lot n° 36

Lettres d'un François The Hague, J. Neaulme, 1745. 3 vols. in-12, full calf, smooth spines decorated, decorated covers. Boards stamped with the arms of the baron de Breteuil at the four corners. Joints of the 3rd vol. fragile. 327 pp. - 357 pp. - 380 pp. With the arms and bookplate of Breteuil. Le Blanc (1707-1781), a clergyman and writer, was a lawyer at the Parliament of Paris before being appointed historiographer of the King's Buildings thanks to the intervention of Madame de Pompadour.