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800 - LAMARTINE, Alphonse de (1790–1869). Signed autograph letter addressed to François-Zenon Collombet, a bookseller in Lyon. Mâcon, August 7 [1836, according to the postmark]. Address on the back of the second sheet with postmarks.
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LAMARTINE, Alphonse de (1790–1869). Signed autograph letter addressed to François-Zenon Collombet, a bookseller in Lyon. Mâcon, August 7 [1836, according to the postmark]. Address on the back of the second sheet with postmarks. A fine literary letter dated 1836. Lamartine discovers the Greek Neoplatonic philosopher Synesius of Cyrene (c. 370–413): “Thank you for the Synesius. I didn’t know him, and you’ve introduced him to me so nobly, dressed in French. The little I have just read of him justifies everything you have told me and leads me to find great praise in the resemblance you are kind enough to draw between two voices that sang 15 centuries apart [...]".
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