François-Jean DAILLANT DE LA TOUCHE (Quintin 1744–1827), Bre - Lot 340

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François-Jean DAILLANT DE LA TOUCHE (Quintin 1744–1827), Bre - Lot 340
François-Jean DAILLANT DE LA TOUCHE (Quintin 1744–1827), Breton writer and contributor to Fréron’s *Année littéraire*. 3 letters, Angers and Paris, 1815 and undated, to the Count de La Poterie in Angers; 7 pages, in-4 format, with addresses (discoloration and small tears in the last letter). Long, erudite letters, particularly regarding his royal origins. Angers, Friday, 6 Frimaire. Despite his poverty, he is “no less a very great lord, and there is no greater lord in Europe than I, not even among sovereigns, for I am, like them, of royal blood, and none of them could provide the same proof of lineage as I can. I am descended from those ancient kings who came from Germania to England, whose reign is referred to in English history as the Heptarchy. My forefathers were the leaders of those ancient Celts or Germans who were the first settlers of Great Britain, and they arrived there as kings. I prove this clearly and without omission, just as I prove that I was born in Quintin-Lorges, in the diocese of Saint-Brieuc. “I am neither an impostor nor a madman”… – Wednesday, 29 Messidor, on the failure of his trip to Rennes; despite the support of Cardinal de Boisgelin, he was not appointed to the high school in Pontivy, and, destitute, had to leave Rennes on foot… Paris, February 7, 1815. He recounts at length his misfortunes and his misery, after having found temporary refuge in Villers-Cotterêts…
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