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GOBELINS - Count LA BOULAYE-MARILLAC (1771-1824, chemist, traveler, director of Manufacture des Gobelins) / Letter from prison - autograph letter signed, 2 p in-8 plus address page with postage, from Sainte-Pélagie prison, January 18, 1816, to his solicitor, whom he asks to come and see him as soon as possible: he is detained because of a debt owed by his wife, for which he is held jointly and severally (we know from other letters of the same period to this solicitor that his wife had filed for divorce, and that things were not going well), "judge how surprised I am to see myself condemned in the gazette without having been able to be heard, nor to present all my most respectable witnesses to destroy all the odious calumnies I am fed"; "my intentions are always pure, my cause is that of religion, honor and morality".

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GOBELINS - Count LA BOULAYE-MARILLAC (1771-1824, chemist, traveler, director of Manufacture des Gobelins) / Letter from prison - autograph letter signed, 2 p in-8 plus address page with postage, from Sainte-Pélagie prison, January 18, 1816, to his solicitor, whom he asks to come and see him as soon as possible: he is detained because of a debt owed by his wife, for which he is held jointly and severally (we know from other letters of the same period to this solicitor that his wife had filed for divorce, and that things were not going well), "judge how surprised I am to see myself condemned in the gazette without having been able to be heard, nor to present all my most respectable witnesses to destroy all the odious calumnies I am fed"; "my intentions are always pure, my cause is that of religion, honor and morality".

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