ROQUETTE Henri-Emmanuel de (1655-1725) prédicateur [AF 1720, 38e f]. 4 autograph MANUSCRITS, [1721-1724] and n.d.; 18 pages in-fol. or in-4. Rare set of working manuscripts, with erasures and corrections. [Raoul Bonnet had only counted receipts signed by the abbé de Roquette]. Eloge de Marc-René d'ARGENSON [died May 8, 1721], whose "dominant passion" was the public good: his services and successes touch the magistracy, the police, public and private finances - Translation into French of HORACE (Satires, book II, satire 3), followed by a commentary, on the back and in the margins of a L.A.S. addressed to him by Jean-Baptiste de VALINCOUR (1653-1730), November 28, 1724; scene in dialogue between Stertinius and Agamemnon : " Digne son d'Atree pourquoy vous refuse la sepulture a Ajax et dou vient cet ordre inhumain de ne pas recueillir ses cendres "... - Speech on the vanity of human greatness, arguing that these greatnesses do not satisfy our desires, nor exempt us from sorrows, nor soften the evils which overwhelm us. "What is the advantage of the greatness the freedom the domination the rest the independence one imagines the greatness as a happy and quiet situation, or freed from any care freed from any duty [] but at the bottom the greatness produces it the independence or rather the constraint the servitude are they not attached to the greatness " Etc. - Tribute addressed to a bishop elected to the Academy: praise of his family in the service of the King, his eloquence, his virtue Attached are a L.A.S. "Roquette", October 9; a P.S. "L'abbé de Roquette" (receipt of rent on vellum), 1703; plus 2 P.S. from Gabriel de ROQUETTE (1623-1707), bishop of Autun (1671-1698).