Jean CHAPELAIN (1595-1674). L.A.S., Monday morning [June 166 - Lot 64

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Jean CHAPELAIN (1595-1674). L.A.S., Monday morning [June 166 - Lot 64
Jean CHAPELAIN (1595-1674). L.A.S., Monday morning [June 1660?], "Pour Messieurs de Valois"; 1page in-8, address on back. Rare unpublished letter from this founding member of the Académie française on the occasion of festivities in Antwerp for the Treaty of the Pyrenees and the marriage of Louis XIV. It is addressed to Adrien de Valois (1607-1692), historiographer and poet, and his brother Henri de Valois (1603-1676), philologist and historian. "I send to Messieurs de Valois a copy of what was done in Antwerp by the Magistrate for resjouissance du Mariage et de la Paix. Monsieur Gevartius [Jean Gaspard Gevartius (Antwerp 1593-1666), philologist and historiographer to Emperor Ferdinand], who was employed at the Inscriptions, having sent me some to distribute to those I know to be his Friends, I thought I could not go wrong in sharing it with them, having recognized from previous letters that he believes he is loved by them"...
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