Letter 3876

Jean-Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane – February 16, 1731


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Date: February 16, 1731
Author: Jean-Paul Bignon
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 194-195



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Abbé Bignon was pleased to receive the ‘Monthly Chronicle’ from Sloane. Monsieur de Chammorel is working to purchase more books on Sloane’s behalf. The Philosophical Transactions found a place in the ‘Bibliothèque du Roy’. Bignon sends a ‘Memoire’. 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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