Jacques MALLET DU PAN (1749-1800) political journalist and r - Lot 357

Jacques MALLET DU PAN (1749-1800) political journalist and royalist agent. L.A.S., December 9, 1791, to the bookseller Panckoucke; 2 pages in-4, address. About his salary that Panckoucke intends to fix at 18 000 livres. His expenses for the journal being important, his profit falls this year below 15 000ll, lower than in 1790. "If he had abandoned the Mercure and set up a newspaper on his own account, "I would have, as well as the abbot Royou, realized 60 thousand francs, my expenses paid. By the nature of the Journal, by the character that I gave to it, and which supported it, my work is doubled; it absorbs all my time"... He thus asks to ensure him a suitable and less variable treatment"... Following, minute of the answer of Panckoucke: he had losses on the two newspapers; he confirms the 18 000 livres promised, by taking in charge the small expenses. A membership card of the Society of the Friends of the Constitution (on small cardboard 5 x 6,5 cm, watercolored vignette in green) is joined.