Baron de ROUGEMONT (Michel Nicolas BALISSON) French playwrig - Lot 421

Baron de ROUGEMONT (Michel Nicolas BALISSON) French playwright (La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, 1781 – Paris, 1840). He had more than 200 plays staged. Autograph letter signed “DE ROUGEMONT,” Paris, June 26, 1817, to the editor of the *Annales politiques, morales et littéraires*: “Sir, I am being credited in public with some of the political and literary articles in the *Journal de Paris*; I have the honor of asking you to allow me to state through your publication that, since the beginning of this month, I have had absolutely no involvement in the editing of that newspaper… ” 1 p., in-4° + Attached is a handwritten note addressed to Mr. FORTUNE DE ST GERMAIN, 32 rue de Bondy, Paris: He is unable to attend tomorrow’s dinner gathering.

Estimate:£85.79

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