Jean Antoine CHAPTAL

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Jean Antoine CHAPTAL
Count de CHANTELOUP, Chemist, Minister of the Interior, Senator, Peer of France, President of the Academy of Sciences. (Nogaret 1756-1832) - Private letter A.S. "The Senator CHAPTAL, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Member of the Institute, 28 Thermidor Year 12 (16 August 1804) to Mr. de BOIGNES, Commissioner, about a marriage: "Your letter leaves me, Sir, with regrets about the impossibility of a union to which I was attaching the bonds 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 ascertained the propriety of it, to weigh with severity the means of existing properly in the class of society in which one finds oneself, and I do not see that the proposals of your brother offer me this consolation. I write to him in the same sense..." 1 page in-4°.
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