"MY DAUGHTER [GERMAINE DE STAËL] HAS THE PASSION OF PARIS AND THE COMPLETE BOREDOM OF THE LÉMAN CANTON...". NECKER (Jacques). Autograph letter to François Coindet in Paris. S.l., "13 August" [1799]. 2 pp. small in-4 and one line, address on the back, red wax seal with the monogram "GM", postal mark "Genève"; small tear due to opening without affecting the text, a few small cracks in the folds. 400 / 500 € "I am well aware that ours has not perfected its friendliness since you left, and we still do not know what will become of us. The two great armies of Helvetia are still facing each other without attacking each other and no one can really explain this inaction. [Masséna's French army and the Austro-Russian army of Archduke Charles and General Suvorov were facing each other around Zurich and were to clash in September]. My daughter [Germaine de Staël] arrived in good health. She plans to return to Paris in mid-autumn, and even sooner if the enemies approach this country as a result of a victory. Her husband [the former Swedish ambassador to France, Erik Magnus Stael von Holstein] does not want to return to Sweden either, and yet, among many other reasons, the issue of finance should direct their plans in a different way. This word finance makes me think of something you said in your letter. I have no doubt that your perfect wisdom will prevent the circumstance you suppose, but you [seem] to believe in the dispositions of your friends. I believe from many examples that spending in Paris always goes further than we calculate. I am replying directly to the letter you were good enough to send me. Please accept the assurances of my faithful affection. Miss Malingre had to report to Desandie on the conversation she had with my daughter about him; and it seems to me that the route indicated is the best one to take; I will not repeat the same things so as not to write unnecessarily. On François Coindet, see n° 245 above.