AISNE - POUGENS, Marie Charles Joseph (Paris 1755-1833) Litt - Lot 479

AISNE - POUGENS, Marie Charles Joseph (Paris 1755-1833) Littérateur, Linguiste, Archéologue et Membre de l'Institut. Natural son of one of the Princes de Conti, he was also the Literary Correspondent of the Empress Dowager of RUSSIA and the Grand Duke CONSTANTIN - Autograph letter signed as Member of the Institut De France. VAUXBUIN (02) near SOISSONS, July 9, 1814, addressed to M. MILLIN Archéologue de l'Institut de France. 1 page in-4° - He asks him to welcome Chevalier De RAULIN, a highly distinguished military officer, to his meetings to talk about RUSSIA: "...Chevalier de RAULIN...speaks wonderfully of RUSSIA, where he has spent a very long time; his way of judging is clear, precise and impartial, and cannot fail to please a man with as good a mind as yours...".