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15-PAGE FOLIO AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ENTITLED: "REFLECTIONS ON THE PRESENT TIME, Chantilly 14 June 1726"

This astonishing manuscript begins with these thoughts:

"What I am about to write is not from a man who has a choice of jobs and who reasons like a philosopher as to whether he will accept them or not.
I'm not wanted.
But as I am accustomed to speaking to myself on all important occasions, I know how to treat her as if she were my choice..."

The Duc d'Antin then examines the reasons for wanting a great job: "Interest, ambition for glory, love of country, or the account we must give for our talents..."then the big jobs that are within his reach:" A place on the Council [...] Lnance […] The Ministry of War […] Foreign Affairs [...] "

An unusual document.