French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Seminary professor, editor, and papal emissary. Librarian of the Church.
 
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed: two sides of half-sheet, accompanied by original mailing envelope. Written the year he was appointed Librarian of the Church. Interesting letter de la Cuisine, a member of the imperial court and an acclaimed bibliographer. Reads:  Mr. President: Afteer some regrettable delays I had the pleasure of receiving the considerable shipment of books and brochures that you kindly sent me. I eagerly went through this collection of your works and could not wait to thank you.  I thank you!  I also wish to congratulate the tireless migistrate who, in a life so evidently busy, has nonetheless given such a broad place to good literature: the happy and intelligent worker who has earned what he modestly calls the luck of discoveries; the historian of Parliamentary Burgundy -- a work that will not be repeated. Although I could not read everything at my lesiure,  have seen enough of this rich body of work to fully appreciate the fertility of the project, the patience of the research, the successful execution, and the importance of the results now acquired by science. Please accept, Mr. President, along with my repeated thanks, the homage of my most profoundly respectful sentiments. Post Script: I hesitated to attah to this letter a fragment of a canonical work which may, from a distance, tough upon the studies of the Learned President; several German jurists have noted in the pages of the Greek texts of the Corpus Juris, published here for the first time, passages that could, especially for reformers, hold the importance of an original.