Simon CHARDON DE LA ROCHETTE (1753-1814) philologist and bibliographer. 6 L.A.S. (2 unsigned), Rouen and Paris 1780-1812, some addressed to the Burgundian scholar Charles-Nicolas Amanton, and one to Duperron; 14pages in-4 and in-8, 2 addresses. Fine scholarly correspondence: essays on books (one letter partly written in Greek), shipment of works, etc. A letter from July 1789 concerns the dispatch of books, in particular the Œuvres de La Fontaine bound in morocco and "les lettres de Mirabeau à ses commetteurs". Some letters bear witness to revolutionary events: "I don't think Barthélemy was a conspirator; but he was a weak man who wanted to pamper the goat and the cabbage, who, advocated by the aristocracy before and after his elevation, didn't want to miss the proper people, whose company he had always frequented, and who finally let himself be circumvented by that cunning Carnot, a republican in the manner of Mde O... with character, brazenness, embracing the cause of his colleagues Barrère, Collot-d'Herbois, etc., in the gallery after the 9-thermidor."...