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