Étienne GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (1772-1844).... - Lot 23 - Ferri & Associés

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Étienne GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (1772-1844).... - Lot 23 - Ferri & Associés
Étienne GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (1772-1844). L.A.S., December 28 [1836], to Charles DIDIER; 1 page in-4, address. About a visit to George Sand's Jardin des Plantes with his lover of the moment Charles Didier, while the orangutan Jack is dying [the visit will take place on December 30, and Jack will die on January 3]. "No tickets for the orangutan. It would be a crime to me, and one that my colleagues (a bit medisan) would exaggerate, if I allowed curiosity to disturb the last moments of a dying man. Moribund, he is now; tomorrow he may not be a corpse yet. Tomorrow's visit, if it suits you: and I am at your command, and with real satisfaction, at the kind lady's command. ... I have the mighty power of a key ring ... and the beast will appear before the miracles of the spirit of the age..." He jubilantly writes a text as a "frontispiece to a new edition of Buffon. It was bought and even paid for. What a magnificent field for natural philosophy? It's up to me to say what I want. I will be wise to say, right or wrong, what is NATURE "...
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