[Haute-Saône. Manuscript]. [Anonymous]. Letters from J.F.M.F - Lot 44

[Haute-Saône. Manuscript]. [Anonymous]. Letters from J.F.M.F.*** to Fse P.*** [Françoise Pierron] useless and boring. Promising is one, & keeping is another. Suite de La Fontaine. A Tendre, aux dépens de l'Amour, 1000700709 [Luxeuil, 1779]. In-4° of 4 bl. ff., 39 pp. 9 ff. framed left blank, 15 bl. ff. Marbled fawn basane, 5-rib flowered spine, fawn morocco t.p., red edges (Binding of the period). Elegant manuscript, framed and illustrated in pen with a title drawing and 30 head and tailpieces. The author of these 14 letters, a resident of Luxeuil, is a descendant of a companion of HENRI IV who took part in the battle of Ivry. He is the husband of Françoise PIERRON, of whom he paints a charming portrait, and transcribes their love correspondence from their first meeting in June 1775 to their proposed marriage in August of the same year. She lived in Amance, was 25 years old and wealthy, he was not, but from an "honest family, of good morals and I like him", she wrote to her brother. Ex-libris ms. of Eugène MALTERRE; stamp of BARENTON. Binding a little rubbed and stained. A moving and very delicate testimony to married love.