NIVELLE DE LA CHAUSSÉE Pierre-Claude (1692-1754) auteur dramatique [AF 1736, 17e f]. L.A.S. "Nivelle", Amsterdam September 9, 1720, to Charles SABLIER in Paris; 3 pages in-4, address (small worm gallery). Amusing complaint of a dramatic subject, in fishy language. "Will it be said that you will write only in your f. grimoires and that you will not think of congratulating me, on my prodigious fortune, by the morbieu I feel lorgeuil which takes to me like an envy to piss, I am of opinion to write to you in the manner that Dagobert speaks has his dogs. Tell me a little Little merchant of imaginary glory What you have done with my Tricentennial Torchecul (if I had thought of the rhyme I would have put the measure that it was necessary) forgive this return of tenderness for a child of my brain it is I believe the only one that I had of my life but I do not have anything any more to make with Plutus I return to my sheep which are the muses, my vein fills itself every day it is necessary that I purge myself that I rhyme or that I burst, so send me a subject, don't it appear some work on which I can fall at arms length finally I need so much a subject that I believe that I would rather make the criticism of the system than not to make verses seen the extremity or I would be reduced, if the providence of Appollon sends for example to his servant a good big tragedy which was worth the palinody " And to improvise: "I will ride this famous horse Without knowing where I will pick up the two " Etc.