MALESHERBES (Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de). 1721-1794. - Lot 156

MALESHERBES (Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de). 1721-1794. Secretary of State to the King's Household, known for having protected the publication of the Encyclopédie, defender of Louis XVI. Autograph minute of a letter to Anquetil-Duperron. S.l., March 22, 1760. 2 pp. ½ in-4, erasures and corrections; post. note on verso, on the provenance of the document. Malesherbes announces to his correspondent that the Chancellor has received his letter on his progress in the study of Oriental languages and especially those of the ancient Persians; the Minister informs him that he supports his work on the manuscripts entrusted to him. Malesherbes has discussed his return to France with Abbé Barthélémy and the Comte de Caylus; "(...) The desire we have to see you again is surely one of the motives which has led us (...) to make this journey, except to return to India (...)". In the meantime, he sends him his compliments on the "tireless zeal which leads you to undertake for the progress of science what the greediest men do not dare to undertake for their fortune (...)". ATTACHED correspondence relating to the creation of a monument to the memory of Malesherbes, with the organization of a committee and its subscription, and request for support from the Duke and Duchess of Berry (1819-1820). Among the signatories who are members of the Committee, figurent le vicomte Pinon président, Chauveau-Lagarde secrétaire, Laffitte, le baron Tardiff, Laffitte, Viger de Jolival. Enclosed a printed circular for the subscription of the monument. (6 pp. in-4 with letterhead, addressed to Péan de Saint-Gilles).