NEWS BY HAND. Collection of 73 manuscripts, 1774 mainly; about 300 pages in-4, in a half-vellum volume, title-piece on the back. Interesting set of handwritten news about the end of the reign of Louis XV and the beginning of that of Louis XVI. Weekly or biweekly news from January 2 to July 29, 1774. At the end, 14 undated or of various dates (1744-1788). Some bear the address of the addressee; two are signed (Gillet, Mouret Saint-Sennin). We follow the illness and death of Louis XV, the advent of Louis XVI, the changes in the ministries, the schedule of Marie-Antoinette, of Mesdames, of the Count of Provence, of the Duke of Orleans, etc. It is notably about Beaumarchais, Marmontel, the Marquise du Deffand, Diderot, La Chalotais, Gluck, Voltaire, La Fayette, etc. One also notes news from abroad, and curious miscellaneous facts. Former collection Gustave Bord.