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Stéphanie Félicité du Crest, comtesse de Genlis - Lettre Autographe Signée à Maria Helena Williams - 1

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"This Germinal 2" one of your great admirers Mademoiselle, Mr Rossi, a Neapolitan man of letters, very much wishes to be introduced to you. Be good enough to grant him this favor at my recommendation, you will charm him and you will give me great pleasure . . . " signed D. GENLIS Stéphanie Félicité du Crest, countess DE GENLIS is an important figure of the French Revolution, mistress of Philippe-Egalité, was the governess of her son, the future Louis-Philippe and raised him in the spirit of the Enlightenment, she met Voltaire and Rousseau. King Louis-Philippe admired this governess and congratulated himself on her education. She held a salon under the Revolution, went into exile in England under the Terror. Authorized by Napoleon to return to France in 1801, he employed her as a spy in view of his English relations. (Helen Maria Williams, English novelist and poet chooses the ideals of the French Revolution, she was thrown in prison under the Terror.) Certificate of authenticity CNE France provided Delivery with insurance.

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"This Germinal 2" one of your great admirers Mademoiselle, Mr Rossi, a Neapolitan man of letters, very much wishes to be introduced to you. Be good enough to grant him this favor at my recommendation, you will charm him and you will give me great pleasure . . . " signed D. GENLIS Stéphanie Félicité du Crest, countess DE GENLIS is an important figure of the French Revolution, mistress of Philippe-Egalité, was the governess of her son, the future Louis-Philippe and raised him in the spirit of the Enlightenment, she met Voltaire and Rousseau. King Louis-Philippe admired this governess and congratulated himself on her education. She held a salon under the Revolution, went into exile in England under the Terror. Authorized by Napoleon to return to France in 1801, he employed her as a spy in view of his English relations. (Helen Maria Williams, English novelist and poet chooses the ideals of the French Revolution, she was thrown in prison under the Terror.) Certificate of authenticity CNE France provided Delivery with insurance.

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