Beaumarchais Autographed Letter Signed April 19, 1792

  

Autographed letter signed, written with a pen, on watermarked laid paper. If I were only to lose my Latin by running after the Minister of Foreign Affairs, I would console myself, for I wish to speak only in French from now on: but I am wasting a time of which there is little left at my age, and perhaps I would make the Minister lose his time by speaking to him; I wanted to say a few interesting words about England to him, to hand him this German paper that arrives under the cover of Mr. de la Hogue [Jacques-Gilbert de la Hogue, director of his printing house in Kehl], I sent it to him, wishing him good luck, to him who has the ball in his court, from an old player in the shed.

And is France really so well off that we must never say anything? Dimensions: 23.2 x 19 cm.