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The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Cure (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Cure (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 151
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etween 1772 and 1799, Dominique Chaix wrote 170 letters to
Dominique Villars. B None of the letters that Vtllars wrote in
response have survived, and there is evidence to indicate that
Chaix simply did not retain incoming letters once they had served
their informative purpose. Villars, blessed with more ample
facilities, kept incoming letters; and those from Chaix are now
preserved in the Bibliotheque Municipale de Grenoble in three
volumes under the number RI0073. A transcription of them for public
use was made earlier in this century under the supervision of
Georges de Manteyer [Georges-Barthelemy-Marie Pinet de Manteyer]
when he was archivist of the Department of Hautes-Alpes. I am
gready indebted to Mme Marie-Fran~ise Bois-Delatte, Conservateur
des Fonds Dauphinoise at the Bibliotheque Municipale d'Etude et
d'lnformation in Grenoble, not merely for making these letters
available to me, but for her eagerness to see someone take an
interest in Dauphinois botanists. I met a similar friendly interest
at the Archives du Departement des Hautes-Alpes in Gap. I thank M.
Pierre-Yves Playoust, Directeur des Services, and members of his
archival staff for the cordial assistance in my search for
materials documenting the career of the abbe Chaix. I am also
obligated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for providing me
photocopies of Villars' letters in their Allioni collection. They
relate to the composition of a flora for Dauphine and are revealing
of Villars' character.
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