LINGUET (Simon-Nicolas-Henri), 1736–1794.

LINGUET (Simon-Nicolas-Henri), 1736–1794. Autograph letter signed “Linguet,” Vienne, March 5, [1786], 3 pp., in-4, to the Count of Sanois, at Madame de Julienne’s residence on Rue du Gros-Chenet in Paris. A long and eloquent indictment of despotism and the French justice system, reflecting Linguet’s profound disillusionment on the eve of the Revolution. Linguet responds to the Count of Sanois, who had just been released after nine months of detention in Charenton under a lettre de c

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Paris