Denis Dechanet dit DES ESSARTS (1737-1793), creator of the role of Bartholo in Le Barbier de Séville. L.A.S., [1778?], to Duc de Villequier, premier gentilhomme de la chambre du Roi; 1page in-4. On the performances given by the Comédiens Français for Marie-Antoinette. "Monseigneur In the course of the summer of 1778 and during your year, we went to perform proverbs three times for the Queen at Bellevue chez Mesdames. We played five other times for Her Majesty either at Versailles or Trianon; only one of which is used in the accounts of the Comédie Française. You did us the honor of promising us that we would be used on your year's statement for extraordinary gratifications. You even flattered us that they would amount to 600 livres each". And he gives the names of the comedians, for the Comédie Française: Dugazon, Des Essarts, Dazincourt, Mlle La Chassaigne, and for the Comédie Italienne: Meinier and Mme Dugazon... Apostille a.s. from the Duc de Villequier, reducing the gratuities.