ORIENTALISM. L.S. by the administrators composing the Directory of the Department of Paris, Paris March 15, 1792, to Antoine Caussin, Professor of Arabic at the Collège Royal; 1 1/2 pages in-fol. Concerning the Benedictine monk and Orientalist Georges-François Berthereau (1732-1794), "from the house of St Germain des prés", who has been awarded a 2000 livres gratuity by the Assemblée Nationale "as a reward & encouragement for his literary work [...] this work consists of a collection of everything the Arabs have written about the Crusades, to follow on from the Collection des Historiens de France". The Directoire asks Caussin and Silvestre de Sacy for a certificate of progress... The letter is signed by Pierre-Hubert Anson (1744-1810) vice-president, Jean-Louis Brousse (1742-1800), Jean-Nicolas Démeunier (1751-1814), Germain Garnier (1754-1822), and Louis-Alexandre La Rochefoucauld d'Enville (1743-1792) president.