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MISCELLANEOUS original letters of eminent foreigners, principally Frenchmen; 1558-[circa 1840]. The writers are: 1. Count F[rancesco] Algarotti to General , concerning David Garrick; Pisa, 5 Mar. 1764. Fr. f. 6.

2. [Henri François] D'Aguesseau [Chancellor of France] to [Guillaume] de Lamoignon [Seigneur de Blanc-Mesnil et Malesherbes], Avocatgénéral; [? 1717-1723]. Fr. f. 8.

3. M[arc Pierre de Voyer, Comte] d'Argenson [to Jacques Bénigne Winslow, Professor of Anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes]; Versailles, 1 Sept. 1750. Fr. f. 10.

4. [Jean Sylvain] Bailly to ; Chaillot, 11 May, 1784. Fr. f. 11.

5. [Huoues Bernard Maret] Duc de Bassano [to Armand Auguste Louis de Caulaincourt] Duc de Vicenza; [post 1811]. Fr. f. 12.

6. P[ierre] Bayle to M. Pinsson des Riolles, avocat au Parlement de Paris; 6 July, 1694. Fr. f. 14.

7. Uberto Benvoglienti to Anton Francesco Gori, Battez[ator]e di S. Giovanni Firenze; Siena, 19 June, 1721. Ital. f. 16.

8. [François Joachim de Pierrel Cardinal de Bernis to ; 2 Dec. 1758. Fr. f. 18.

9. Jean Bernouilli to Edmund Halley; Basel, 23 Nov. 1712. Lat. f. 19.

10. H[ubert] Bilius to Constantin Huygens [Heer van Zuylichem]; Leyden, 17 Nov. 1625. Lat. f. 21.

11. Nicolaas van Blom to the same; n.d. Gr.; with translation in Dutch. f. 22.

12. J[ohann] F[riedrich] Blumenbach to ; Göttingen, 24 Nov. [circa 1790]. Ger. f. 25.

13. J[oachim] F[riedrich] Blumenthal, Envoy from Brandenburg to the States-General, to Constantin Huygens; [10 Dec. 1640] and n.d. Fr. ff. 26, 27.

14. J[ohannes] Baptista Boddens to ; Utrecht, 15 Mar. 1635. Lat. f. 29.

15. Gio[vanni] Batt[ist]a Bodoni to Benedetto del Bene; Parma, 18 May, 1809. Ital. f. 31.

16. [L'Abbé Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, afterwards Bishop of Troyes] to [his uncle Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux]; Rome, 16 Sept., 19 Aug. 1698. Fr. Partly in cipher. ff. 36, 44.

17. [François Marie] Maréchal Duc de Broglie to [Charles Godefroi de la Tour d'Auvergne] Duc de Bouillon; Versailles, [1742-1745]. Fr. f. 61.

18. Burlamaqui to M. Huber, merchant at Lyon; London, 11 Oct. 1699. Fr. f. 62.

19. [Charles Alexandre] de Calonne [French Minister of Finance] to Edwards; 20 Jan. [ante 1803]. Fr. f. 64.

20. [Augustin Pyrame] De Candolle, Professor [of Botany at Geneva], to [? Gaetano] Savi, Professor of Botany at Pisa; Geneva, 31 Oct. 1820. Fr. f. 65.

21. [Charles Eugène Gabriel de la Croix, Marquis de] Castries to ; Paris, 9 Dec. 1757. Fr. f. 66.

22. [François Claude, Marquis de] Chauvelin to ; Paris, 14 Dec. 1765. Fr. f. 68.

23. [Étienne François] Duc de Choiseul to M. de la Balue; Versailles, 18 Mar. 1770. Fr. f. 70.

24. É[tienne] Claviere to ; Paris, 30 Sept. 1788. Fr. f. 71.

25. [François de Franquetot] Maréchal [Comte, afterwards Duc] de Coigny to "le bailly et officiers de Fenestrange;" au camp d'Hepenheim, 18 Sept. 1735. Fr. f. 73.

26. [Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert] B[aro]n Cuvier to Samuel Edward; 10 Dec. [1823]. Fr. f. 74.

27. [? Alix] Desgranges [? Professor of Turkish at the Col1ége de France] to [ Magnytot]; [circa 1840]. Fr. f. 76.

28. [Philippe Néricault] Destouches, de l'Académie Française, to the "officiers de la maitrise de Fontainebleau;" Fortoiseau, near Melun, 12 Feb. 1740. Fr. f. 77.

29. [Godefioi Comte] D'Estrades [Governor of Dunkirk] to ; Dunkirk, 4 Mar. 1650. Fr. f. 79.

30. L[ouis César Letellier, Comte] D'Estrées, Maréchal de France Paris, 30 Sept. [ante 1771]. Fr. f. 80.

31. [Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Duchâtelet Lomont] to [Louis Bufile de Brancas] Comte de Forcalquier; 1 Dec. [ante 1749]. Fr. f. 82.

32. [Jean François] Ducis, de l'Institut National, to ; Paris, 17 Germinal, an 9 [7 Apr. 1801]. Fr. f. 84.

33. [General Charles François Duperrier] Dumouriez to Baron ; London, 10 Dec. 1812. Fr. f. 85.

34. [Abraham Hyacinthe] Anquetil Duperron to M. Mercier, bibliothécaire de Ste. Geneviève; 16 Oct. 1763. Fr. f. 86.

35. Ubbo Emmius [Rector and Professor at the University of Groningen] to Maurice, Prince of Orange; Groningen, 25 Sept. 1619. With modern transcript. Lat. ff. 88, 90.

36. Henricus à Frisen, Fil[ius], to ; Leyden, 14 July, 1630. Lat. f. 91.

37. [André Hercule] Card[inal] de Fleury to [? Jerome] Besoigne, au Collége de Plessis; Rambouillet, 12 Aug. 1727. Fr. f. 92.

38. Certificate of [Bernard le Bouyer de] Fontenelle respecting a "tente brisée" invented by M. Marius; Paris, 6 Dec. 1705. Fr. f. 93.

39. Petrus Francius [Fransz] to Constantin Huygens van Zuylichem; Amsterdam, 17 Oct. 1683. Lat.; with printed Greek and Latin verses to the memory of Prince Ferdinand von Fürstenberg, Bishop of Paderborn and Münster [ob. 1683]. ff. 94-98.

40. Johannes Gesnerus, M. D., to J[ohannes] Fredericus Gronovius; Zurich, 31 Aug. 1730. Lat.; with seal. f. 99.

41. [Françoise D'Isembourg] d'Happoncour de Grafigny, to ; Paris, 12 Dec. 1750. Fr. f. 101.

42. [Le Comte Henri] Grégoire, an[cien] év[êque] de Blee [Blois, Member of the Council of Five Hundred, etc.], to the Chevalier Byerley; Paris, 18 Jan. 1815. Fr. f. 102.

43. A[braham] Gronovius to ; Utrecht, 10 July, 1741. Dutch. f. 104.

44. Jacob Gronovius to Reinier Leets, bookseller, of Rotterdam; Leyden, 5 May, 1693. Dutch; with seal. f. 105.

45. Nicolaus Heinsius to [Constantin] Huygens; Vianen, ¹⁸/₂₈ Feb. 1679. With a copy of an epitaph in elegiac verse upon Admiral Michel van Ruyter. Lat. f. 106.

46. [Christian Gottlob] Heyne [Professor of Poetry and Rhetoric at Göttingen] to Molini, bookseller at Florence; Göttingen, 20 Oct. 1802. Fr. f. 108.

47. [Pierre] D'Hozier, juge général des armes de France, to [Constantin] Huygens; Paris, 3 Sept. 1649. Fr. f. 110.

48. [? Antoine François] Le Bailly to Couut [Alexis] Orloff; Neuilly, 31 May, 1823. Fr. f. 112.

49. [Jean] de Lachapelle [Secretary to the Prince de Conté] to [Louis de la Tour d'Auvergne] Prince de Turenne; Chantilly, 1 Mar. 1686. Fr. f. 114.

50. [Charles Marie de] La Condamine to [Jean Baptiste Antoine] Suard; Paris, 23 Mar. 1773. Fr.; with seal. f. 116.

51. Le Consul [Charles François] Lebrun [afterwards Duc de Plaisance] to [Martin Michel Charles Gaudin] Minister of Finance [afterwards Duc de Gaète]; Paris, 28 Fructidor, an 11 [15 Sept. 1803]. Fr. f. 118.

52. C[onstantine] L'Empereur [Professor of Hebrew at Leyden] to Constantin Huygens; Leyden, 13 Mar. 1645. Lat. f. 120.

53. [Michel] Le Tellier [Minister of State] to M. de Besmaux [Governor of the Bastille]; 28 Nov. 1662. Fr. f. 121.

54. Car[olus] Linnæus to Eman[uel] Mendes de Costa; Upsala, 27 Feb. 1759. Lat. f. 123.

55. [Francesco Scipione, Marquis] Maffei, to ; Verona, 31 Jan. 1726. Ital. f. 124.

56. [Jean François] Marmontel to [Charles William Ferdinand] Hereditary Prince [afterwards Duke] of Brunswick- [Wolfenbüttel] Paris, Jan. 1767. Fr. f. 125.

57. [Jules Cardinal] Mazarin to M. Main Dextre, Vicar at Vincennes; n.d. Fr. f. 127.

58. [Philippe Antoine Comte] Merlin [de Douai] to [Marie Thérèse Josèphe, Princesse de Berghes St. Winock]; Douai, 12 Mar. 1781. Fr. f. 129.

59. [René] Abbé de Mornay [French Ambassador at Lisbon] to ; Lisbon, 4 Sept. 1719. Fr. f. 130.

60. [Gabriel de Rochechouart, Marquis, afterwards Duc de] Mortemart to Constantin Huygens; Paris, 27 Feb. 1649. Fr.; with seals. f. 131.

61. [Jacques] Necker [ex-Minister of State] to [Marie Charles Joseph de] Pougens, Membre de l'Institut National; [Geneva] 25 Oct. 1803. Fr. f. 133.

62. [Jean Jacques] Paulet [M.D.] to M. Sheawil [? Markham Sherwill] fils, Anglois; 30 Apr. 1825. Fr. f. 135.

63. A[ntoine] R[ené de Voyer d'Argenson, Marquis] de Paulmy [Minister of War] to ; Versailles, 9 Oct. 1759. Fr. f. 137.

64. [Abbé Jean] Phélipeaux to [Jacques Bénigne Bossuet] Bishop of Meaux; Rome, 28 Jan.-4 Aug. 1698. Fr. ff. 140-157.

65. [Louis François Armand Duplessis] M[aréchal] Duc de Richelieu, to ; Gnesen, 31 July, 1757. Fr. f. 158.

66. J[ean] J[acques] Rousseau to ; n.d. Fr. f. 160.

67. [Christophe] Saliceti, "representant du Peuple," to John Walker; Paris, 4 Frimaire, an 6 [24 Nov. 1797]. Fr. f. 161.

68. [Ferdinand Lorenz Franz Xavier Tserclaes] Comte de Tilly to ; Lille, 16 Sept. 1710. Fr. f. 163.

69. L[oren]zo Torrentino [Florentine printer] to Pietro Vettori; Florence, 8 Oct. 1558. Ital. f. 165.

70. [François Denis] Tronchet to ; Palaiseau, 22 Mar. [circa 1798]. Fr. f. 168.

71. [Daniel Charles] Trudaine [Minister of Finance] to the Deputies of Commerce; Paris, 14 Mar. 1756. Fr. f. 169.

72. [Pierre Marquis del Villars to the Queen [Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII. of France]; Honfleur, 8 Jan. 1628. Fr. f. 171.

73. [François Marie Arouet de] Voltaire to Mariette, "avocat au conseil;" Ferney, 22 Sept. [circa 1766]. Fr.; with seal. f. 173. At ff. 1, 4 are letters from Markham Sherwill to Dawson Turner, relative to the above letters; London, 30 Nov., 6 Dec. 1836; and at f. 175 is an alphabetical list of the writers, with short notices. Paper. Quarto.

includes:

ff. 1, 4 Markham Sherwill: Letters to D. Turner: 1836.
f. 6 David Garrick, actor: Letter from Count Algarotti concerning: 1764.: Fr.
f. 6 Count Francesco Algarotti,; Italian scholar: Letter to General -: 1764.: Fr.
f. 8 Henri François d' Aguesseau, Chancellor of France, son of Henri d'Aguesseau, Intendant: Letter to G. de Lamoignon: 1717-1723.: Fr.
f. 8 Guillaume de Lamoignon, Seigneur de Blanc Mesnil et Malesherbes: Letter to, from H. F. d'Aguesseau: 1717-1723.: Fr.
f. 10 Marc Pierre de Voyer, Comte d'Argenson: Letter to J. B. Winslow: 1750.: Fr.
f. 11 Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris: Letter to -: 1784.: Fr.
f. 12 Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Duc de Vicence; French diplomatist: Letter to, from the Duc de Bassano: post 1811.: Fr.
f. 12 Hugues Bernard Maret, Due de Bassano, French Minister for Foreign Affairs: Letter to A. A. L. de Caulaincourt: post 1811.: Fr.
f. 14 Pierre Bayle: Letter to M. Pinsson des Riolles: 1694.: Fr.
f. 16 Uberto Benvoglienti: Letter to A. F. Gori: 1721.: Ital.
f. 18 François Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Abbé, Comte, afterwards Cardinal: Letter to -: 1758.: Fr.
f. 19 Edmund Halley, FRS; astronomer: Letter to, from J. Bernouilli: 1712.: Lat.
f. 19 Jean Bernouilli, Professor of Mathematics at Basle: Letter to E. Halley: 1712.: Lat.
f. 21 Hubert Bilius: Letter to C. Huygens: 1625.: Lat.
ff. 21, 22, 26, 27, 94, 110, 120, 131 Constantin Huygens, Heer van Zuylichem, Dutch Statesman: Letters to, from various persons: 1622-1680.
f. 22 Nicolaas van Blom: Letter to C. Huygens: n.d.: Gr. and Dutch.
f. 25 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, of Göttingen University: Letter to -: circ. 1790.: Germ.
ff. 26, 27 Joachim Friedrich Blumenthal, Envoy from Brandenburg to the States General: Letters to C. Huygens: 1640.: Fr.
f. 29 Johannes Baptista Boddens: Letter to -: 1635.: Lat.
f. 31 Giovanni Battista Bodoni: Letter to B. Del Bene: 1809.: Ital.
ff. 36, 44 Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Abbé, afterwards Bishop of Troyes: Letters to his uncle, the Bishop of Meaux: 1698.: Fr.
f. 61 Charles Godefroi de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon: Letter to, from the Duc de Broglie: 1742-1745.: Fr.
f. 61 François Marie de Broglie, Duc de Broglie; Maréchal: Letter to the Duc de Bouillon: 1742-1745.: Fr.
f. 64 Charles Alexandre de Calonne, French Comptroller-General of Finance: Letter to Edwards: ante 1803.: Fr.
f.65 Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Professor of Botany at Geneva: Letter to G. Savi: 1820.: Fr.
f. 66 Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, Marquis de Castries; Maréchal de France 1783: Letter to -: 1757.: Fr.
f. 68 Bernard Louis Chauvelin, Marquis; Ambassador to Turin: Letter to-: 1765.: Fr.
f. 70 La Balue de): Letter to, from the Duc de Choiseul: 1770.: Fr.
f. 70 Étienne François de Choiseul, Duc de Choiseul: Letter to M. de la Balue: 1770.: Fr.
f. 71 Etienne Clavière, French Minister of Finance: Letter to -: 1788.: Fr.
f. 73 François de Franquetot, Comte de Coigny; Marshal of France: Letter to the Bailly et officiers de Fenestrange: 1735.: Fr.
f. 74 Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier, Baron: Letter to S. Edward: 1823.: Fr.
f. 76 Alix Desgranges, Professor of Turkish at the Collège de France: Letter to Magnytot: circ. 1840.: Fr.
f. 77 Philippe Néricault Destouches, writer and dramatist: Letter to the "Officiers de la maîtrise de Fontainbleau": 1740.: Fr.
f. 79 Godefroy d' Estrades, Comte d'Estrades; French diplomatist and soldier: Letter to -: 1650.: Fr.
f. 80 Louis César Le Tellier, Comte d'Estrées; Maréchal de France: Letter to: ante 1771.: Fr.
f. 82 Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatellet: Letter to the Comte de Forcalquier: ante 1749.: Fr.
f. 82 Louis Bufile de Brancas, Comte de Forcalquier: Letter to, from the Marquise Duchâtelet Lomont: ante 1749.: Fr.
f. 84 Jean François Ducis, poet: Letter to -: 1801.: Fr.
f. 85 Charles François Duperrier Dumouriez, French general: Letters to -: 1763, 1812.: Fr.
f. 86 Bartholomé Mercier, Librarian of St Geneiève at Paris, and Abbé de St Leger de, Soissons: Letters to, from A. H. A. Duperron and J. d'Alembert: circ. 1763, 1780.: Fr.
f. 86 Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil Duperron, French orientalist: Letter to M. Mercier: 1763.: Fr.
ff. 88, 90 Ubbo Emmius, Rector of Groningen University: Letter to Maurice, Prince of Orange: 1619.: Lat.
ff. 88, 90 Maurice, Princes of Orange; Count of Nassau: Letter to, from U. Emmius: 1619.: Lat.
f. 91 Henricus à Frisen, junior: Letter to -: 1630.: Lat.
f. 92 André Hercule de Fleury, Cardinal; Bishop of Fréjus; Preceptor to Louis XV., and Prime Minister of France: Letter to J. Besoigne: 1727.: Fr.
f. 92 Jérôme Besoigne: Letter to, from Card. de Fleury: 1727.: Fr.
f. 93 Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French author: Certificate: 1705.: Fr.
f. 94 Petrus Fransz: Letter to C. Huygens: 1683.: Lat.
ff. 94-98 Ferdinand von Fürstenberg, Prince-Bishop of Paderborn and Münster: Verses to his memory: 1683.: Gr. and Lat.
f. 99 Johannes Fredericus Gronovius, Botanist: Letter to, from J. Gesner: 1730.: Lat.
f. 101 Françoise d'Isembourg de Happoncour de Grafigny: Letter to -: 1750.: Fr.
f. 102 Henri Grégoire, Comte; Bishop of Blois: Letter to the Chev. Bayley: 1815.: Fr.
f. 104 Abraham Gronovius, Librarian of Leyden University: Letter to -: 1741.: Dutch.
f. 105 Jacobus Gronovius, Professor at Leyden: Letter to R. Leets: 1693.: Dutch.
f. 106 Constantin Huygens, Heer van Zuylichem, Dutch Statesman: Correspondence with N. Heinsius: 1660, 1679.: Lat.
f. 106 Nicholas Heinsius: Correspondence with C. Huygens: 1660, 1679.: Lat.
f. 106 Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter, Admiral: Epitaph on: 1679.: Lat.
f. 108 Christian Gottlob Heyne, Professor at Göttingen: Letter to - Molini: 1802.: Fr.
f. 110 Pierre dé Hozier, Juge Général des armes de France: Letter to C. Huygens: 1649.: Fr.
f. 112 Antoine François Le Bailly: Letter to Count Orloff: 1823.: Fr.
f. 114 Jean de Lachapelle, Secretary to the Prince of Condé: Letter to the Prince of Turenne: 1686.: Fr.
f. 114 Louis de La Tour d'Auvergne, Prince de Turenne: Letter. to, from J. de Lachapelle: 1686.: Fr.
f. 116 Charles Marie de La Condamine: Letter to J. B. A. Suard: 1773.: Fr.
f. 118 Charles François Lebrun, Consul of France afterwards Duc de Plaisance: Letter to M. M. C. Gaudin: 1803.: Fr.
f. 120 Constantine L'Empereur, Professor of Hebrew at Leyden: Letter to C. Huygens: 1645.: Lat.
f. 121 de Besmaux, Governor of the Bastille: Letters to, from M. Le Tellier: 1662, 1663.: Fr.
f. 121 Michel Le Tellier, Secretary of State, Chancellor of France: Letters to M. de Besmaux: 1662, 1663.: Fr.
f. 123 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist: Correspondence with E. M. da Costa: 1757-1764.: Lat.
f. 124 Scipione Maffei, Marchese: Letter to --: 1726.: Ital.
f. 125 Charles William Ferdinand; Duke of Brunswick - Lüneburg - and-Wolfenbüttel: Letter to, from J. F. Marmontel: 1767.: Fr.
f. 125 Jean François Marmontel: Letter to the Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel: 1767.: Fr.
f. 127 Giulio Mazarin, Cardinal 1641: Letter to -- Maindextre: n.d.: Fr.
f. 129 Philippe Antoine Merlin de Douai, Comte: Letter to the Princesse de Berghes St. Winock: 1781.: Fr.
f. 130 René Mornay, Abbé, French Ambassador to Lisbon: Letter to -: 1719.: Fr.
f. 131 Gabriel de Rochechouart, Marquis de Mortemart: Letter to C. Huygens: 1649.: Fr.
f. 133 Jacques Necker, Swiss banker; French director general of Finance: Letter to M. C. J. de Pougens: 1803.: Fr.
f. 135 Jean Jacques Paulet, MD: Letter to M. Sheawil: 1825.: Fr.
f. 137 Antonio René de Voyer d'Argenson, Marquis de Paulmy: Letter to ---: 1759.: Fr.
ff. 140-157 Jean Phélipeaux, Abbé: Letters to J. B. Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux: 1698.: Fr.
ff. 140-157 Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux: Letters to, from Abbé Phélippeaux: 1698.: Fr.
f. 158 Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Maréchal, Duc de Richelieu: Letter to-: 1757.: Fr.
f. 160 Jean Jacques Rousseau, philosopher: Letter to-: n.d.: Fr.
f. 161 Christophe Saliceti: Letter to J. Walker: 1797.: Fr.
f. 163 Ferdinand Lorenz Franz Xavier t Serclaes, Count Tilly: Letter to-: 1710.: Fr.
f. 165 Pietro Vettori, Professor of Greek at Florence: Letters to, from C. Sigorio and L. Torrentino: 1558, 1567.: Ital.
f. 165 Lorenzo Torrentino, Florentine Printer: Letter to P. Vettori: 1558.: Ital.
f. 168 François Denis Tronchet Lawyer: Letter to -: circ. 1798.: Fr.
f. 169 Daniel Charles Trudaine, Intendant Général des Finances: Letter to the Deputies of Commerce: 1756.: Fr.
f. 171 Louis XIII of France; Anne of Austria: Letter to, from the Marquis de Villars: 1628.: Fr.
f. 171 Georges de Brancas, Duc de Villars; Governor of Honfleur: Letter to the Queen of France: 1628.: Fr.
f. 173 François Marie Arouet de Voltaire: Letter to - Mariette: circ. 1766.: Fr.

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Aguesseau, Henri François, Chancellor of France, son of Henri d'Aguesseau, Intendant
Algarotti, Francesco, Count, Italian scholar
Anquetil Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe, French orientalist
Arouet de Voltaire, François Marie
Bailly, Jean Sylvain, astronomer; Mayor of Paris, 1736-1793
Bayle, Pierre, French philosopher, 1647-1706
Benvoglienti, Uberto
Bernouilli, Jean, Professor of Mathematics at Basle
Besmaux, Governor of the Bastille
Besoigne, Jérôme
Bilius, Hubert
Blom, Nicolaas
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, of Göttingen University
Blumenthal, Joachim Friedrich, Envoy from Brandenburg to the States General
Boddens, Johannes Baptista
Bodoni, Giovanni Battista
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, Abbé, afterwards Bishop of Troyes
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, Bishop of Meaux
Brancas, Georges, Duc de Villars, Governor of Honfleur
Brancas, Louis Bufile, Comte de Forcalquier
Broglie, François Marie, Duc de Broglie, Maréchal
Calonne, Charles Alexandre, French Comptroller-General of Finance
Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, Swiss botanist, 1778-1841
Caulaincourt, Armand Augustin Louis, Duc de Vicence, French diplomatist
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick - Lüneburg - and-Wolfenbüttel
Chauvelin, Bernard Louis, Marquis, Ambassador to Turin
Choiseul, Étienne François de, Duc de Choiseul
Châtelet, Gabrielle Émilie, née Le Tonnelier de Breteuil; natural philosopher, mathematician and translator, 1706-1749
Clavière, Etienne, French Minister of Finance
Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron
Desgranges, Alix, interpreter and academic, 1793-1854
Destouches, Philippe Néricault, writer and dramatist, 1680-1754
Ducis, Jean-François, poet, playwright and adapter of Shakespeare, 1733-1816
Dumouriez, Charles François du Perier, army officer and politician, 1739-1823
Emmius, Ubbo, German historian and geographer; first rector of Groningen University, 1547-1625
Estrades, Godefroy d', Comte d'Estrades, French diplomatist and soldier, 1607-1686
Fleury, André Hercule, cardinal and prime minister of France, 1653-1743
Fontenelle, Bernard, French author and academic, 1657-1757
Franquetot, François, Comte de Coigny, Marshal of France
Fransz, Petrus
Frisen, Henricus, junior
Fürstenberg, Ferdinand, Prince-Bishop of Paderborn and Münster, 1626-1683
Garrick, David, actor and playwright, 1717-1779,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121171982,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24563
Gronovius, Abraham, of Leiden, librarian, 1695-1775
Gronovius, Jacob, philologist and academic, 1645-1716
Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus, Botanist
Grégoire, Henri, Comte, Bishop of Blois
Halley, Edmund, FRS, astronomer
Happoncour de Grafigny, Françoise d'Isembourg
Heinsius, Nicholas
Heyne, Christian Gottlob, Professor at Göttingen
Hozier, Pierre dé, Juge Général des armes de France
Huygens, Constantin, Heer van Zuylichem, Dutch Statesman
L'Empereur, Constantine, Professor of Hebrew at Leyden
La Condamine, Charles Marie, of Add MS 20790
La Croix, Charles Eugène Gabriel, Marquis de Castries, Maréchal de France 1783
La Tour d'Auvergne, Charles Godefroi, Duc de Bouillon
La Tour d'Auvergne, Louis, Prince de Turenne
Lachapelle, Jean, Secretary to the Prince of Condé
Lamoignon, Guillaume, Seigneur de Blanc Mesnil et Malesherbes
Le Bailly, Antoine François
Le Tellier, Louis César, Comte d'Estrées, Maréchal de France
Le Tellier, Michel, Secretary of State, Chancellor of France
Lebrun, Charles François, Consul of France afterwards Duc de Plaisance
Linnaeus, Carl, Swedish botanist; of Sloane MS 4054
Louis XIII, of France, Anne of Austria
Maffei, Scipione, Marchese; of Add MS 23102
Maret, Hugues Bernard, Due de Bassano, French Minister for Foreign Affairs
Marmontel, Jean François, of Add MS 21514
Maurice, Prince of Orange; Count of Nassau, 1567-1625,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121023111
Mazarin, Giulio, Cardinal 1641
Mercier, Bartholomé, Librarian of St Geneiève at Paris, and Abbé de St Leger de, Soissons
Merlin de Douai, Philippe Antoine, Comte
Mornay, René, Abbé, French Ambassador to Lisbon
Necker, Jacques, Swiss banker, French director general of Finance
Paulet, Jean Jacques, MD
Phélipeaux, Jean, Abbé
Pierre de Bernis, François Joachim, Abbé, Comte, afterwards Cardinal
Plessis, Louis François Armand de Vignerot, Duc de Richelieu, army officer, diplomat and statesman, 1696-1788
Rochechouart, Gabriel, Marquis de Mortemart
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, philosopher
Ruyter, Michiel Adriaanszoon, Admiral; of Add MS 32358
Saliceti, Christophe
Sherwill, Markham
Torrentino, Lorenzo, Florentine Printer
Tronchet Lawyer, François Denis
Trudaine, Daniel Charles, Intendant Général des Finances
Vettori, Pietro, Professor of Greek at Florence
Voyer d'Argenson, Antonio René, Marquis de Paulmy
Voyer, Marc Pierre, Comte d'Argenson
t Serclaes, Ferdinand Lorenz Franz Xavier, Count Tilly