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Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty (1738/39-1786) Françoise d'Issembourg d'Appencourt [d'Happoncourt], lady of Graffigny (Pl. de la Galerie françoise, ou Portraits des hommes et des femmes célèbres qui ont paru en France, 1770). Black Manner after J.-B. Garand. 207 x 255. Singer 76; I.F.F. 80. Beautiful proof on laid paper, from a state not described by Singer, before the letter. Scattered light foxing. Small halo of moisture at the right edge. Small dark blue ink stain on the center right board cut. Small lack in the lower left corner of the folio. Nice margins. Françoise d'Issembourg du Buisson d'Happoncourt, wife of Graffigny, born in 1695 in Nancy and died in 1758 in Paris, was a woman of letters from Lorraine. She was the great-grand-niece of Jacques Callot. Surrounded by philosophers and poets, she held a very frequented salon on the rue Neuve-des-Capucins, in Paris, which brought together people of letters such as Voltaire, Madame du Châtelet, Diderot, Fontenelle, Montesquieu and the president Hénault. She became famous by publishing her Letters from a Peruvian in 1747, which were reprinted 42 times until the end of the century.
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Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty (1738/39-1786) Françoise d'Issembourg d'Appencourt [d'Happoncourt], lady of Graffigny (Pl. de la Galerie françoise, ou Portraits des hommes et des femmes célèbres qui ont paru en France, 1770). Black Manner after J.-B. Garand. 207 x 255. Singer 76; I.F.F. 80. Beautiful proof on laid paper, from a state not described by Singer, before the letter. Scattered light foxing. Small halo of moisture at the right edge. Small dark blue ink stain on the center right board cut. Small lack in the lower left corner of the folio. Nice margins. Françoise d'Issembourg du Buisson d'Happoncourt, wife of Graffigny, born in 1695 in Nancy and died in 1758 in Paris, was a woman of letters from Lorraine. She was the great-grand-niece of Jacques Callot. Surrounded by philosophers and poets, she held a very frequented salon on the rue Neuve-des-Capucins, in Paris, which brought together people of letters such as Voltaire, Madame du Châtelet, Diderot, Fontenelle, Montesquieu and the president Hénault. She became famous by publishing her Letters from a Peruvian in 1747, which were reprinted 42 times until the end of the century.
