DANCHET Antoine (1671-1748) poète, auteur dramatique et librettiste [AF 1712, 5e f]. L.A.S. "Danchet", Paris August 26, 1732, to Monseigneur [le cardinal de FLEURY]; 2 pages in-4 (engraved portrait enclosed). The "Académie françoise" had to give a second time the prize for eloquence. He addresses to him the speech he gave at the public session of the Academy, at the Saint-Louis: "if this speech has interested the assembly, I owe it to the places which look at the Prince who makes our happiness and the Minister who puts all his aplication to strengthen it".