PIERRE-SIMON DE LAPLACE (1749-1827) Autograph letter signed ‘Laplace’ (as Chancellor of the Sénat-Conservateur) to Mme Veuve Lejeans Paris, 18 Vendémiaire an XII de la République française [11 October 1803]

Lotto 16

300400

1 p. in-4 on ‘Sénat-Conservateur’ headed paper, traces of folds inherent in the sending. Good condition. He informed her that the pension for senators’ widows was set at 6,000 francs for Year XII and that it was included in the attached list of widows. Pierre-Simon de Laplace or Pierre-Simon Laplace, Count Laplace, then 1ᵉʳ Marquis de Laplace. Mathematician and astronomer. Minister of the Interior After 18-Brumaine, then senator. Member of the Académie Française. He was one of the leading scientists of the Napoleonic period. Guillaume Lazare Lejeans (1738-1803) French merchant and politician.

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