Letter 1318

Jean-Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane – July 1, 1709


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Date: July 1, 1709
Author: Jean-Paul Bignon
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 338-339



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Bignon expresses the Academie’s satisfaction with Sloane’s letter. He asks that Sloane send him the rocks and drawings of monuments in Persepolis. Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743) was a clergyman, librarian to Louis XIV, member of the Academie francaise, and mentor of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Bignon).




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