Ambroise SICARD (1742-1822)
Priest, teacher of... Lot 425
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Ambroise SICARD (1742-1822)
Priest, teacher of deaf-mutes. [AF] 6 L.A.S., 1794-1820; 10 pages in-4 and in-8, some with his printed letterhead The Director of the Institution of the Deaf-Mute..., some addresses.
- 4 brumaire III (October 25, 1794), to the president of the Committee of Public Instruction: he agrees to take on the work that is asked of him "to prove my complete devotion to the public thing"...
- 2 germinal IX (March 23, 1801), to the citizen MÉJEAN, general secretary of the prefecture of the Seine, in favour of his friend BOSSU, priest of Saint-Paul, of which he awaits with impatience the end of the proscription...
- February 6, 1813, to the abbot PATAUD, chaplain of the high school of Orleans, asking him to entrust him a "sacred deposit", which will be returned to him with exactitude...
- December 30, 1816, to Mrs. Adèle DUHAMEL, evoking his sorrows, a deaf-mute child, and recommending him a friend who has an important collection of paintings to sell...
- April 13, 1820, to a friend, about a sacred debt she has to "one of your former mistresses"...
- S.d., to Antoine SERIEYS, about the trip he is undertaking in Italy in search of unpublished manuscripts, and for which he gives him "letters of recommendation for various scholars"
Provenance:
- Pierre BERGE, Paris, June 25, 2015, no. 378
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