Jacques CAZOTTE (1720-1792). Autograph manuscript; 2 oblong pages in-12. Rare profession of faith addressed to his "dear children". Having received much from God, "I try to return it to you for the price it has cost me. As soon as I turned to him, he gradually dispelled the intellectual clouds that covered my eyes, and I felt, almost immediately, how faithful he is to his word". On the reverse of this fragment, a text on the pyramids of Egypt: "Ainssi la mort a voulu faire connoitre par un emblême immortel quil y a qu'elle de solide sur la Terre"...