Pierre jean RUFFIN (Salonique 1742- Constantinople 1824) Dip - Lot 224

Pierre jean RUFFIN (Salonique 1742- Constantinople 1824) Diplomat, Oriental languages interpreter (Drogman) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he followed the troops to Egypt and was taken prisoner by SELIM III (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire). Letter A. S. "RUFFIN", from Versailles on 28 Ventôse l'An 2 (March 18, 1794), addressed to Citoyen LALANDE Inspecteur du Collège de France à Paris. 2 pages in-12°: The Citizen LANGLÈS, who is willing to stand in for me, dear fellow citizen and colleague, having warned me that it was becoming impossible for him to reconcile his own public duties with those he fulfils for me at the Collège de France; I have set my sights on my former comrade and friend the Citizen PÉRILLE Interprète de la République du Maroc, to entrust him with my duties. He has 40 years of service in the Levant and in Barbary, and consequently all the knowledge to exercise the interim Chair of Turkish and Persian; and if you agree to this provisional arrangement, I have no hesitation in guaranteeing that public service will be fulfilled in this respect... My wife, his sister, my daughter who is advancing in her pregnancy, my son-in-law and the whole neighborhood join me in embracing you... Salut et Fraternité."