Anne-Robert-Jacques TURGOT (1727–1781). Letter from the author, Paris, December 23, 1774, to M. de Nicolay, First President of the Chamber of Accounts; 1½ pages, in-4. Regarding the vacancy created by the death of Mr. Du Pré, for which the Duke of Orléans had expressed interest in Abbé Le Boullanger de Chaumont; on Nicolay’s recommendation, Turgot proposed to the King Mr. Lourdet, a protégé of the Prince of Condé…