VISCONTI LOUIS: (1791-1853) Italian-born French Architect. Visconti designed many Parisian public major buildings including the Pace Saint Sulpice, the Fontaine Moliere, and is most remembered and famed for designing the 1842 tomb of napoleon at Les Invalides. An excellent content A.L.S., Visconti, three pages, 8vo, n.p., 29th April, n.y., in French. At the time of the present letter Visconti is building Napoleon´s monumental tomb. Visconti comments to the beginning of the letter how spoiled are his friend´s children and predicts a difficult future, further reporting about his work, and refers to the Louvre museum and to some projects, saying `… tout est dit dans ce siècle de progress..´ (“Everything has been said in this century of progress”) Further again and to a post-scriptum, Visconti refers to Napoleon´s tomb, stating ` At the time of the present letter Visconti is building Napoleon´s monumental tomb, stating in part `Le Sarcophage avance. Les pieds sont terminés, le corps est assemblé. Le couvercle est tout ébauché, mais il n'est pas taillé ni poli. Il y a dessus 8 personnes´ (“The Sarcophagus advances. The supports are finished, the body is assembled.

 

 The lid is all designed, but it is not cut or polished yet. There are 8 people working on it”) Very small minor staining, otherwise G