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Jean-François DUCIS (1733-1816) poet and playwright. L.A.S., - Lot 512

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Jean-François DUCIS (1733-1816) poet and playwright. L.A.S., - Lot 512
Jean-François DUCIS (1733-1816) poet and playwright. L.A.S., Paris 11 thermidor III (29 July 1795); 3 pages in-4. He thanks his correspondent for offering him his retreat at Chatillon-Libre: "I would have greeted your willows there, I would have even tried to sing them". But his wife fears to be far from Paris, and "she fears to live in a place which has appearance, in a time when the People starve the cities and trample us underfoot". He himself does not want to move away: "The theater has become my home: through work, I forget a little my sorrows: by the product of my works I make less hard the deplorable state of ruin where the revolution reduced me". He sends his tragedy Abufar, or the Arab Family, wishing "that the former friend of VOLTAIRE finds something that pleases him in the work of a man who had the honor of succeeding him at the French Academy, but who keeps at a religious distance from him"...
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