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live December 2 | 11:00 AM
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97 - MARAT, Jean-Paul (1743–1793).

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€1,000 - 1,500

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31.2%

MARAT, Jean-Paul (1743–1793). Autograph letter signed “Marat,” Monday, April 30 [1792], to the printer Nicolas FERET; ¾ page, in-8 format, on the back of a page of the printer’s accounts (slightly sun-faded, traces of framing). A rare note to his printer. Description: “Three thousand leaflets are needed today before eight o’clock in the evening: make sure they are ready and sent out, and the rest tomorrow evening. This must be done without fail”… An old handwritten note attached specifies: “Letter from Marat, ‘L’ami du Peuple,’ to his printer Nicolas Feret, April 30, 1792. It concerns the prospectus for a work titled *L’École du Citoyen*, by Marat.” Enclosed is an autograph sheet by Jacques DELILLE, a draft of poems (donated by his sister-in-law on June 26, 1837) (1¼ pages, in-8 format).

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Books & Manuscripts
Wednesday, December 2
11:00 AM
164 bis, avenue Charles-de-Gaulle
92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

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