Anthelme BRILLAT-SAVARIN (1755-1826) magistrate... - Lot 52 - Rossini

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Anthelme BRILLAT-SAVARIN (1755-1826) magistrate... - Lot 52 - Rossini
Anthelme BRILLAT-SAVARIN (1755-1826) magistrate and gastronome, author of the Physiology of Taste. L.A.S. "Brillat-Savarin fils", Versailles Monday [end of April 1789], to M. Gaudet, "premier sindiq de la province du Bugey" in Belley; 3 ½ pages in-8, address and postmark (small tear due to broken seal; ink stamp from Louis Leguay collection). Interesting letter as deputy of Bugey while waiting for the opening of the Estates-General. Scheduled for April 27, Louis XVI postponed it to May 4: "this delay was absolutely essential either because the sâle and other preparations are not completed, or because several provinces have not yet named their deputies, Paris among them [...] However the greatest number of deputies has arrived, one does not see anything else in the streets of Versailles"...Necker "gave audience at Versailles at five o'clock; I was there but he only appeared, talked with two or three people for a moment and then withdrew". The death of the Emperor of Germany [Marie-Antoinette's brother] is expected. The same is true of the Dauphin who "is dying of a languid illness [he died on June 4]. The Duke of Normandy is [...] in very poor health so that it is feared that the King will remain without male children. Bread is very expensive, four pounds cost fifteen sols, and there is always a fear of sedition. He denounces the high cost of the lodgings proposed by the Municipality to the deputies who came for the Estates-General "which makes me say that there is a knavery there"...Former Patrice Hennessy collection (1958, n° 5).
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