"Il en faudrait au moins 4 bouteilles [de champagne]"
Autograph letter signed to the Gihaut engravers
Paris s. d.|12 x 18 cm|une feuille
€180
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Amusing autograph letter signed by the engraver Nicolas Toussaint Charlet to the Gihaut brothers, engravers, inviting them to dinner and asking them to bring Champagne wine. "Charlet invite M.M. Gihaut frères, éditeurs de l'oeuvre de Géricault etc... à venir dîner dimanche avec lui, s'ils étaient hommes à envoyer dimanche matin quelques bouteilles de Champagne ou les acompterait. Nous serons 12. Il faudrait au moins 4 bouteilles Il compte sur eux il n'y a aucun moyen de refuser Salut et amitié Charlet" ["Charlet invites MM. Gihaut brothers, publishers of Géricault's works etc... to come dine with him on Sunday, if they were men to send some bottles of Champagne on Sunday morning or would advance payment for them. We will be 12. At least 4 bottles would be needed He counts on them there is no way to refuse Greetings and friendship Charlet"]