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Jean-François DUCIS (1733-1816, playwright and poet, of the - Lot 325

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Jean-François DUCIS (1733-1816, playwright and poet, of the - Lot 325
Jean-François DUCIS (1733-1816, playwright and poet, of the Académie française, he succeeded to Voltaire's seat) / Autograph letter signed, 4 p petit in-4, Versailles, March 28, 1814, to Vincent CAMPENON (1772-1843, poet of the Académie française) - He instructs his friend to forward a letter to Monsieur de Boufflers (Stanislas, the poet of the Académie française): "I earnestly desire, my friend, that my prose and verse express well to Mr de Boufflers the full extent and vivacity of my gratitude. I have done all I could in verse. I think as you do, my dear Campenon: men and women, I say almost all of them, don't understand poetry. Pauci quos aequus amavit Jupiter (nb: quote from Virgil). We know that we feel this language. And that's why we find it so hard to be satisfied with what we do" / Enclosed: small engraved portrait
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