Jean-Antoine ROUCHER (1745-1794) poet, died... - Lot 27 - Rossini

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Jean-Antoine ROUCHER (1745-1794) poet, died... - Lot 27 - Rossini
Jean-Antoine ROUCHER (1745-1794) poet, died on the scaffold with André Chénier. L.A.S., Montfort l'Amaury August 8, 1778, [to the Marquis de GIRARDIN, the friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau]; 2 pages in-4. Very beautiful and rare letter about Ermenonville and Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU (died on July 3). He thanks the Marquis for having welcomed him at his home in Ermenonville... "It seems to me that my soul has been renewed. I have always loved the countryside, but perhaps without ever realizing the charm that attached me to it. I needed to see the landscape that you have composed to enter into the secret of my own feelings. Ermenonville will always be present to me, and I will be very proud, if in the picture I propose to paint of it, I manage to show it in my poem, as I see it and as I feel it. [...] Here I am in the retreat ready to compose [...] I have seen the man who loves nature both inside and outside your house". He asks him to pay his respects "to the widow of the great man whom all sensitive hearts mourn. Mde Rousseau has lost a lot; but if anything can alleviate her misfortune, it is the interest that you take in it, and which, I dare to say, honors you in the eyes of anyone who pays homage to virtue and genius"...
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