Letter 3932

Pierre Chirac to Hans Sloane – August 9, 1684


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Date: August 9, 1684
Author: Pierre Chirac
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 8-9



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Pierre Chirac (ca. 1650-1732) was a French physician who served Philippe d’Orleans during his French and Italian campaigns during the War of the Spanish Succession. He became the latter’s first physician in 1715 and between 1728 and 1731 he was the first physician of Louis XV of France (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Chirac).




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