PRISON - Count LA BOULAYE-MARILLAC (1771-1824, chemist, trav - Lot 414

PRISON - Count LA BOULAYE-MARILLAC (1771-1824, chemist, traveler, director of the Manufacture des Gobelins) / Letter from prison: autograph letter signed, 2 p in-8 plus address page with postage, from Sainte-Pélagie prison, January 18, 1816, to his solicitor, whom he summons to come and see him as soon as possible, he is detained because of a debt owed by his wife for which he is held jointly and severally (no other letters from the same period to this solicitor are known, judge my surprise at seeing myself condemned in the gazette without having been able to make myself heard, nor to present all my most respectable witnesses to destroy all the odious slander with which I am fed"; "my intentions are always pure, my cause is that of religion, honor and morality".