MEDICINE ARRAS - LETTER autograph, signed of Doctor RETZ. Ro - Lot 14

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MEDICINE ARRAS - LETTER autograph, signed of Doctor RETZ. Ro - Lot 14
MEDICINE ARRAS - LETTER autograph, signed of Doctor RETZ. Rochefort March 7, 1784. Sent to Monsieur de Germonière, Controller of the Navy. Enclosed: 2 prints: "To the friends of the constitution", with signature of Dr Retz, and "Petition to the National Assembly". 4 pages in-4. Doctor RETZ would be born in ARRAS in 1758, his life is a true novel. After studies in Douai, he leaves, with the expedition of Lafayette in the United States, has his return, he is named doctor of the Navy, in ROCHEFORT, there, in 1784, (date of our documents), following a professional dispute, he killed in a duel his colleague, Doctor Bosc d'Antic, father of Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc d'Antic, French naturalist. Dismissed by the King, he returned to Arras, where he would have met ROBESPIERRE. Against all odds, he was nevertheless appointed King's Physician. He opened a practice in rue St Honoré in Paris, his bibliography includes more than ten publications, he worked for the Academy of Medicine. He probably died around 1810.
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