MEDICINE - Edme Joachim BOURDOIS de LA MOTTE (1754–1835), on - Lot 91

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MEDICINE - Edme Joachim BOURDOIS de LA MOTTE (1754–1835), on - Lot 91
MEDICINE - Edme Joachim BOURDOIS de LA MOTTE (1754–1835), one of the most prominent figures in medicine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; personal physician to the Count of Provence in 1779, and to Madame Victoire, aunt of Louis XVI, in 1788; subsequently chief physician of the Army of the Alps, where he became acquainted with Bonaparte; in 1811, he became the personal physician to the King of Rome; and during the Restoration, he continued to serve as a consulting physician to Louis XVIII and later Charles X) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8 plus address page: He is unable to travel to Marne (now known as La Coquette, where he owned property) because he must remain with Madame Victoire, “who is threatened by a serious illness, if she is not already afflicted by it,” “her kind parents, rightly alarmed, do not want me to leave her, and my longstanding friendship with them all prevents me from not fully submitting to their will” (n.b.: Madame Victoire left Paris in 1791 to go into exile in Italy, where she died; it is likely that this letter dates from 1789, just before the Revolution) / Enclosed: a 1927 medical journal containing a 12-page biography of Bourdois de La Motte in grand-8 format / Enclosed: the engraved portrait of Bourdois by Isabey from 1811
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