Jean Antoine CHAPTAL, Comte de CHANTELOUP, Chemist, Minister - Lot 314

Jean Antoine CHAPTAL, Comte de CHANTELOUP, Chemist, Minister of the Interior, Senator, Peer of France, President of the Académie des Sciences. (Nogaret 1756-1832) - Private letter A.S. "Le Sénateur CHAPTAL, Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, Membre de l'Institut", 28 Thermidor An 12 (16 Août 1804) to Mr de BOIGNES Commissaire ordonnateur, concerning a marriage: "Your letter leaves me, Sir, with nothing but regret at the impossibility of a union to which I was attaching the ties and happiness of our two families. A marriage and its consequences require the most serious attention. It is advisable to a certain extent, after having assured oneself of one's suitability, to weigh with severity the means of existing suitably in the class of Society in which one finds oneself, and I do not see that Mr. your brother's proposals offer me this consolation. I write to him in the same vein..." 1 page in-4°.