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MEDECINE - Edme Joachim BOURDOIS de LA MOTTE (1754-1835, one of the most important medical personalities of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, physician to the Comte de Provence in 1779, to Madame Victoire aunt of Louis XVI in 1788, then chief physician of the Armée des Alpes where he befriended Bonaparte, in 1811 he became private physician to the King of Rome, and during the Restoration continued to be consulting physician to Louis XVIII and Charles X / Autograph letter signed, 1 p in-8 plus address page, he is unable to travel to Marne (currently La Coquette, where he had his property) as he finds it necessary to stay with Madame Victoire, "threatened with a serious illness, if she is not already suffering from it", "her good parents, justly alarmed, do not want me to leave her, and my old friendship for them all, does not allow me not to resign myself entirely to their will" (n.b.: Madame Victoire left Paris in 1791 for exile in Italy, where she died, so this letter may have been written in 1789, just before the Revolution) / Enclosed: 1927 medical journal containing a 12 p. large-8 biography of Bourdois de La Motte / Enclosed: Isabey's 1811 engraved portrait of Bourdois.

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MEDECINE - Edme Joachim BOURDOIS de LA MOTTE (1754-1835, one of the most important medical personalities of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, physician to the Comte de Provence in 1779, to Madame Victoire aunt of Louis XVI in 1788, then chief physician of the Armée des Alpes where he befriended Bonaparte, in 1811 he became private physician to the King of Rome, and during the Restoration continued to be consulting physician to Louis XVIII and Charles X / Autograph letter signed, 1 p in-8 plus address page, he is unable to travel to Marne (currently La Coquette, where he had his property) as he finds it necessary to stay with Madame Victoire, "threatened with a serious illness, if she is not already suffering from it", "her good parents, justly alarmed, do not want me to leave her, and my old friendship for them all, does not allow me not to resign myself entirely to their will" (n.b.: Madame Victoire left Paris in 1791 for exile in Italy, where she died, so this letter may have been written in 1789, just before the Revolution) / Enclosed: 1927 medical journal containing a 12 p. large-8 biography of Bourdois de La Motte / Enclosed: Isabey's 1811 engraved portrait of Bourdois.

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