RULHIERE Claude-Carloman de (1735-1791) officier, diplomate, poète et historien [AF 1787, 40e f]. 6 autograph MANUSCRITS; 8 pages, mostly small in-4. Nice set of poems. To M. l'abbé de Lille [DELILLE] on his poem Les Jardins (5 quatrains): " On the summits of the double mount You have known, my dear de Lille, You gird you with laurels which crown the face And of Hesiode and Virgil ". To Mad. *** (19 verses) : " I braved in the north the fury of the hyvers / The Muses followed me not far from these deserts " To Mad. the duchess of Charmes who had come to see the garden of the author (eight verses) : " A divinity that one reveres / In this humble valley, in these modest places " The Occasion (44 verses, with some erasures and corrections) : " The occasion flees without turning the head " Very corrected draft of an epistle to a duke in verse and prose: "What! stupidity and wickedness / Tranquil in their bed sleep at will" More a piece of circumstance offered to Étienne de Jouy by the niece of Rulhière. 3 L.A.S. "Rulhiere", 2 P.A.S. and 1 P.S. December 15, 1772, as a reformed captain of cavalry, requesting that the duke of La Vrillière authorize him to consult the manuscripts of the King's Library for his project of writing a history of the French Navy; his situation of fortune is "destroyed by the overthrow of the state that I had in foreign affairs"... [August 1778], to Count d'Angivillier, requesting twelve sycamores for his hermitage. Receipt for books "that the King has kindly granted me" (1785). Certificates of service in the Parisian National Cavalry (1790-1791). Etc