RACINE (Louis) 1692–1763, son of Jean Racine.

RACINE (Louis) 1692–1763, son of Jean Racine. Letter from “Racine,” sl [Paris], March 3, 1751, 3 pp. ½ in-4, address and wax seal bearing a coat of arms, to Gerhard Nicolaas HEERKENS (1726–1801), a Dutch physician, scholar, and Neo-Latin poet. A very interesting letter containing literary news addressed to his friend Heerkens, combining reflections on the decline of scholarship, a scathing critique of the elderly Fontenelle, and almost immediate accounts of the dispute between Voltair

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