François-Antoine de BOISSY D'ANGLAS (1756-1826) politician, - Lot 313

François-Antoine de BOISSY D'ANGLAS (1756-1826) politician, Conventionnel (Ardèche) and senator. L.A.S., Bougival July 4, 1818, to Dr. Mathieu Duret, former mayor of Annonay; 6pages in-8, addressed. Tribute to the Montgolfier brothers. He informs Duret of the monument he has had erected on his Bougival property in memory of the Montgolfier brothers: "It is a stone column, 28 to 29 feet high, crowned by a balloon also in stone", and transcribes the inscription: "to the memory of the two brothers Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier, born in Annonay and inventors of Aerostats, even more commendable for their moral qualities than for their genius, Boissy d'Anglas, their compatriot and from childhood their friend and owner of this garden, dedicated this monument on June 4, mdcccxviii". Then he alludes to "a conspiracy whose aim was to force the King to change the Ministry"...