Letter 4306

Jean-Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane – August 13, 1731


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Date: August 13, 1731
Author: Jean-Paul Bignon
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 302-303



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Abbé Bignon thanks Sloane for his letter and the information on the Philosophical Transactions authored by ‘M. Hook’. He discusses the release of the Memoires de l’académie and Journal des sçavans. Bignon is trying to procure complete collections of the journals for the Bibliothèque du roi. He thanks Sloane for sending the catalogues of books. 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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