Jean-François MARMONTEL (1723-1799) writer. L.A. to Jean-Baptiste Suard; 2 1/2 pages in-8 with erasures and corrections, address with red wax seal. He makes a change to his previous letter about a Latin poem he quotes... "What could be colder than this fiction and how much more beautiful and wise is that of Julie's shadow appearing to Pompey, and that of the image of the fatherland presenting itself to Caesar at the crossing of the Rubicon. One is a dream, in which people have always believed; the other is a sublime allegory, through which we can see the truth. This is how Mr de Voltaire used it in the Henriade"...