BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de (1729-1811),... - Lot 316 - Gros & Delettrez

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BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de (1729-1811),... - Lot 316 - Gros & Delettrez
BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de (1729-1811), famous French navigator and explorer. Autograph notes. S.l.n.d. 3 pp. in-12 oblong. Very interesting working notes in which Bougainville compares the habits of the savages towards the wounded with the habits of the Greeks, for example (Illiad). He then evokes the massacre of the inhabitants of Louisiana by the Spaniards and the way in which the Greek families were treated in Belgrade in 1739, quotes Greek verses, references to works, etc.
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