PIRON (Alexandre) (1689-1773), poet and playwright L.A.S.... Lot 33

PIRON (Alexandre) (1689-1773), poet and playwright L.A.S. from Alexandre Piron to Jacques Cazotte Letter in French, on paper Paris, August 4, 1764, 4 pages in-4 Letter signed "Votre tres humble & tres obeissant serviteur Piron". Dimensions: 225 x 182 mm Beautiful, witty letter from Alexis Piron. "I have just left, Monsieur, a Hotel in Rambouillet, where the dame du Logis, twice a week, gives dinner to all the illustrious parasites of our three Academies from Dalembert to Marmontel...". He has an exchange with his host: "She asked me, with an eagerness she has only for her guests, for the name of the author of Olivier & that she made me spell it very exactly to have it engraved at the head of her copy; confessing to me that she had just read you for the 3rd time with the greatest pleasure in the world: a pleasure, which according to all appearances, has not yet given her, for 15 years, the Knights of her Round Table...". In 1763, Jacques Cazotte (1719-1792) published Ollivier: le lord impromptu ( Piron refers to Voltaire, chased from the Champs-Elysées "with stirrup leathers, for having rudely & maliciously insulted the authors of Radamiste & Rodogune, his masters". Piron also mentions Laharpe. Expert: Ariane Adeline