Joseph-Antoine-Joachim CERUTTI (1738-1792)... - Lot 15 - Rossini

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Joseph-Antoine-Joachim CERUTTI (1738-1792)... - Lot 15 - Rossini
Joseph-Antoine-Joachim CERUTTI (1738-1792) Jesuit, literary scholar and journalist, friend and collaborator of Mirabeau, deputy of Paris to the Legislative Assembly. L.A.S., Paris September 25, 1786; 4 pages in-4. He evokes the memoirs of DUPATY (in defense of three inhabitants of Chaumont condemned to the wheel) that Cerutti had advised him to shorten; he produced a second, even longer one; but the moment is critical: "The parliament of Paris believes itself insulted. Then on the affair of the Queen's Necklace: "The Cal de ROHAN has changed his place of exile. He is retired in an abbey close to Tours. His hero, Mr. de CAGLIOSTRO, is going to suffer, it is said, new outrages. It was discovered in the police records that he had already come to Paris fifteen to twenty years ago under the name of BALSAMO and that he was selling orvietan on the Pont-Neuf with his wife, who was taken from him and then returned. No religion has had as many misteries as the life of this adventurer"...
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