ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE, XVIIIe siècle. Lot n° 2

FRENCH ACADEMY, 18th century. LEFRANC, marquis de POMPIGNAN Jean-Jacques. L.A.S., Paris November 27, 1760 (4 p. in-4). Beautiful, long letter on the campaign waged against him by VOLTAIRE, and his decision to resign from the Académie Française. Attached is an autograph manuscript, Les Travaux et les Jours (notebook, 19 p. in-4), a working manuscript of a verse translation of Hesiod. THOMAS Antoine-Léonard. 6 L.A.S., 2 L.A. and 1 L.S., Paris 1770-1779, to President Antoine Bonnier d'Alco, Montpellier (10 p. in-4, addresses). Fine literary correspondence. MONTESQUIOU-FÉZENSAC Anne-Pierre, marquis de. 4 autograph manuscripts of poems, and one L.A.S., 1771 and n.d. (8 p. in-8 or small in-4). Includes 2 letters from Abbé de Montesquiou. DUCIS Jean-François. Autograph poem signed and 7 L.A.S., Paris and Versailles 1786-1814 (2 and 14 p. in-4)... Plus 10 letters or pieces relating to Ducis. LEBRUN Ponce-Denis Écouchard (1729-1807). 7 autograph manuscripts of poems (8 p. in-4 or in-8), including one on the suppression of the Académie. Plus a L.A.S. (1763). FRANÇOIS DE NEUFCHÂTEAU Nicolas-Louis. 5 L.A.S., 1792-1824 (9 p. various sizes, portrait enclosed), to Dumouriez, Raynouard, N. Lemercier, etc. GARAT Dominique-Joseph. 10 L.A.S. and 4 L.S., 1793-1825 and n.d., to Marmontel, Jarente, Raynouard, Lacretelle, his nephew Maillia-Garat, etc.; plus a P.S. co-signed by Pache and a decree bearing his signature (1792), a letter from his elder Garat brother, and 2 printed decrees of the Convention. DEVAINES Jean. 5 L.A.S., 2 L.S. and an autogr. ms, 1771-1803. 8 L.A.S. from Jean-Baptiste DELISLE de SALES, 1807-1816, plus an autogr. ms and an attached note.