Jean-François, baron de BOURGOING (1745-1811) diplomat, Fren - Lot 583

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Jean-François, baron de BOURGOING (1745-1811) diplomat, Fren - Lot 583
Jean-François, baron de BOURGOING (1745-1811) diplomat, French ambassador to Spain, Denmark and Dresden. 2 L.A.S. "B", prairial-fructidor [VIII] (June-August 1800), to his friend TORELLI; 2 pages in-8 and 2 pages in-4, one address. Interesting letters on the situation in Northern Europe. Copenhagen 20 prairial. He is happy to return to the diplomatic career, and blesses the sky to have rid France of the Treilhard and Rewbell... Kiel 4 fructidor. The Danes are indignant against the English arrogance, and burn to measure themselves against the English navy; the presence of English warships in the North Sea warms up the spirits. Tsar Paul I had his fleet in the Baltic ready to attack. Holstein hopes a lot in the new government of France. Bourgoing speaks about the emigrants, in particular M. d'Angiviller who "still awaits the counter-revolution with a fervor worthy of 1788". Prince Charles of Hesse is well cured of his infatuation with Dumouriez, who lives in Altona with Mme de Beauvert, Rivarol's sister...Former Patrice Hennessy collection.
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