Gilles MÉNAGE (1613-1692). L.A.S., [15 October 1682]; 2 pages in-4. He sends verses he made "on the recovery of Monseigneur le Chancelier" [Michel Le Tellier, chancellor of France from 1677 to 1685]. "I am persuaded that they will not explain you because of the subject. I do not dare to beg you to share them with Monseigneur le Chancelier, not knowing if you will find them worthy of him. Monsieur de la Rochefordière, who will present them to you on my behalf, is my nephew in the style of Brittany. He has been offered a very advantageous marriage, but on condition that he will be a Councillor in the Parliament of Brittany. He cannot be without a dispensation of paranté, having a brother Councillor in the same Parliament"...