Letter 4044

Pierre de Falaiseau to Hans Sloane – September 9, 1707


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Date: September 9, 1707
Author: Pierre de Falaiseau
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 18-19



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De Falaiseau praises Sloane and briefly discusses scholarship. Pierre de Falaiseau was a Huguenot refugee and diplomat. He represented Brandenburg from the 1680s in Sweden, France, and England (Daniel Riches, Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture: Brandenburg-Swedish Relations in the Seventeenth Century (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 228 ff.).




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