NICOLE Pierre (1625-1695) théologien, moraliste et polémiste janséniste, un des Solitaires de Port-Royal. L.A.S. "Nicole", [1666?], to Jean RACINE; half page in-4, address with red wax seal with the motto Summa Libertas. Beautiful letter of congratulations on a benefit from Louis XIV. [This may be the royal pension granted to the author of Alexandre le Grand (1666)]. "I am waiting [] to rejoice with you a little bit more on the present you received from S.M. The charge the circumstances all my pleasure. I rejoice that one can say Sunt hic sua præmia laudi, and that malice and preventions cannot do everything, but I rejoice even more that one was not intimidated by these preventions and that in going his way without fear one did not fall into any inconvenience. It is the fact for me of a great speech that I will not mention in a bill which only aims at satisfying a duty of civility that it is good to mention in a time when you are overwhelmed by these kinds of civility.