BIB_ID
374697
Accession number
MA 863.46
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1780 Jan. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur De Ruffey Président / honoraire à la Chambre des Comptes / en son hotel rue Chapelotte / à Dijon."
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed from Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, to Gilles Germain Richard de Ruffey and other recipients. Items are described in individual records; see MA 863 for details.
With seal.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed from Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, to Gilles Germain Richard de Ruffey and other recipients. Items are described in individual records; see MA 863 for details.
With seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Explaining that he has just written on behalf of the sieur Fleury, protégé of M. de Ruffey, for the position of Receveur de la ville de Saint-Jean-de-Losne [Cf. MA 863.47 and MA 863.48]; writing that M. Dupleix [de Bacquencourt] has been named Conseiller d'Etat, and that he has heard that the current Intendant de Berry [Charles-Henri de Feydeau, marquis de Brou] will become "un charmant jeune Intendant" [de Bourgogne].
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