Nicolas-Edme RÉTIF DE LA BRETONNE. L.A.S., [Paris] 27 frimaire VI (17 December 1797), to citizen Fontaine, merchant in Grenoble; 1 page in-4, address on the back (small tears due to breakage of red wax seal, without missing text). Beautiful letter listing his latest works. Restif is pleased with the return of M. Fontaine to his office "It is an effect of the 18 Fructidor which produced many other equally happy ones. May this happy day not weaken as a bishop Grégoire or Philippe Delleville and others pretend to do". He sends to his friends a package containing a number of his works of which he makes the list: "The Human Heart unveiled XXV parts including the Drama of the life, and the XVIIth of the Nights / The Provinciales or the Year of the Ladies XII parts / The Teacher of a P. Nat IV parts / The Nights of Paris XVI parts / The Prevention and 3 vol. of Theatre VI parts / The Life of my Father II parts / The Peasant-Peasant perverted, with the separate figures [...] IV volumes / XXIV volumes of Contemporaries ". He joined the "bad portrait" and two works for his relative M. Rétif...