Pierre-Samuel DUPONT DE NEMOURS (1739-1817) economist and po - Lot 613

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Pierre-Samuel DUPONT DE NEMOURS (1739-1817) economist and po - Lot 613
Pierre-Samuel DUPONT DE NEMOURS (1739-1817) economist and politician. L.A.S., 1 Vendemiaire XIV (23 September 1805), to Simon-françois de Gay-Vernon (director of the École polytechnique); 1 page in-4. He wanted to bring him "my young American, when I received a letter from his father which absolutely prescribes me to put him in a military school [...] I am very angry about it. I would have thought that a scientific, literary and philosophical education would have been necessary for him first; and that two years of military discipline at Fontainebleau, at StCyr, or at the École Polytechnique would have completed the education that his father wants him to receive..." He must obey, but promises to "offer him a student who is a little less warlike" at the first opportunity...
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