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<p rend="indent0" xml:id="par1">Monsieur<space dim="vertical" extent="3" unit="lines"/></p>
<p rend="indent0" xml:id="par2">I'ai attendu a uous remercier de toutes uos peines <lb xml:id="l1"/>et de tous uos soins, que ie pusse uous rendre <lb xml:id="l2"/>conte de l'usage que i'en auois fait. Mécredi der<lb xml:id="l3"/>nier 12 du mois <del type="strikethrough">ie</del> on lut dans l'Assemblee pu<lb xml:id="l4"/>blique de l'Academie des Sciences l'Eloge que <lb xml:id="l5"/>i'ai fait de M. Neuton sur les Memoires que uous <lb xml:id="l6"/>aués eu la bonté de m'enuoyer. un si grand <lb xml:id="l7"/>nom auoit attiré beaucoup de monde. il ne m'<lb xml:id="l8"/>est point reuenu iusqu'apresent que le Public trouue <lb xml:id="l9"/>que i'aye fait tort a <choice><abbr>M.</abbr><expan>Monsieur</expan></choice> Neuton, on est ici presque <pb xml:id="p002r" n="2r"/> aussi délicat sur sa gloire qu'on le seroit chès uous <lb xml:id="l10"/>et méme l'approbation qu'il me semble qu'on a <lb xml:id="l11"/>donnée a cet Eloge est cause qu'on le ua impri<lb xml:id="l12"/>mer extraordinairement, c'est a dire sans attendre <lb xml:id="l13"/>que le Volume de nos Histoires pour 1727, au<lb xml:id="l14"/>quel il apartient naturellement, paroisse au iour. <lb xml:id="l15"/>dés qu'il sera imprimé, i'aurai l'honneur de uous <lb xml:id="l16"/>l'enuoyer, Monsieur, et ie prendrai la uoye de <lb xml:id="l17"/><choice><abbr>M.</abbr><expan>Monsieur</expan></choice> l'Ambassadeur d'Angleterre, si uous ne m'en <lb xml:id="l18"/>indiqués pas une autre. Ie suis auec beaucoup <lb xml:id="l19"/>de respect</p>
<p rend="indent25" xml:id="par3">Monsieur<space dim="vertical" extent="1" unit="lines"/></p>
<p rend="indent15" xml:id="par4">Votre trés humble et trés <lb xml:id="l20"/></p>
<p rend="indent15" xml:id="par5">obeïssant seruiteur</p>
<p rend="indent25" xml:id="par6">Fontenelle</p>
<p rend="indent0" xml:id="par7">de Paris ce 15 <choice><abbr>Nou.</abbr><expan>Nouembre</expan></choice> 1727 <choice><abbr>N. S.</abbr><expan>Nouveau Style</expan></choice></p>
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<p rend="indent0" xml:id="par8">Angleterre <space dim="horizontal" extent="10" unit="chars"/> A Monsieur<space dim="vertical" extent="4" unit="lines"/></p>
<p rend="indent0" xml:id="par9">Monsieur Iean Conduitt de la Societé <lb type="intentional" xml:id="l21"/>Royale, et Directeur de la Monnoye</p>
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