Simon Nicolas Henri LINGUET (1736-1794) fiery lawyer and journalist, guillotined. 3 L.A.S. and 1 L.S., 1770-1771, to the Marquise de CREQUY; 5 1/2 pages in-8 and 3 pages in-4, one address. Beautiful correspondence. Linguet sends his admirer his works which have "no other merit than a great zeal for truth, and the public good". He speaks about the "multiplied harassments" that one makes him undergo: "I do not like my enemies; but I seek more rest than revenge, and it is hard to spend one's life with muscles perpetually tense, to resist"... He exposes a complex affair in Compiègne, on the occasion of which he published memoirs. He talks about his solitude: "I am crushed in Rennes, I am torn apart in Paris and probably elsewhere. Fortunately my cabbages and my artichokes console me; by seeing these invaluable vegetables gnawed by caterpillars and limacons, I am not so surprised any more that the virtue is treated in the same way by the men who resemble these insects, and that the useful talens are worth wars only of bites"...