GRIMOD DE LA REYNIÈRE (Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent). - Lot 118

GRIMOD DE LA REYNIÈRE (Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent). 1758-1838. Gastronomer and literary scholar. L.A.S. "GDLR" to Mlle Feuchère in Lyon. Béziers, April 13, 1791. 2 pp. 1/4 in-4. Suscription.4 VERY BEAUTIFUL LETTER TO HIS LADY.Grimod de la Reynière is concerned about the ailments suffered by his lover, ...Is it a loss? a simple inflammation? pains in the womb? Do you have a fever, headaches.... he asks, ...Put me in the picture, you know I like the details of everything that concerns you. You can dictate your answer to Mme Thévenin (...). If you only knew, my dear friend, how worried and alarmed I am by the details you give me of your sufferings.... He recommends ...Please take care of yourself (...). I would like to be close to you to serve and relieve you... It seems that you are as difficult with paintings as with everything else, and that you are hardly aware of what they are worth in Lyon... ...Since you have been ill, I can no longer dream pretty dreams, it turns off my imagination both night and day, but as soon as you are well again I promise to start again. You invite me to make the last one come true, no doubt when we are together, for I would be a little piqued if you were indifferent enough about me to give me this advice with another woman. (...) You have so turned me off to all women who are not you, that I think I would have great difficulty finding myself only a man with them, which would still be a far cry from a dream in which I found myself Hercules. Alas, it is only a dream! But I'll let you know how to make it come true when I get back.... He adds in a P.S. the following day: ...You must have at home a small piece of my Scripture entitled histoire de lange-lure et de la fé-lure [de lengelure et de la fêlure?]. May I beg you to entrust it to Julien, who will have a copy made for me...