Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette to Faraday   7 January 1832

Monsieur et cher Confrere

le 26 decembre 1831, j'ai communiqué a l'academie Royale des Sciences la lettre que vous m'avez fait l'honneur de m'ecrire le 17 du même mois1. cette communication a été fort bien accueillie. le plaisir que j'ai eprouvé en apprenant vos nouvelles decouvertes, a été partagé par tous mes collégues, notamment par MM. Arago, Ampère, et Savart2. M. Arago notre secretaire perpetuel a lû l'extrait de votre lettre, que je lui avois Remis avant la Seance -.

Je desire apprendre comment vous avez operé pour produire les Courans electriques par les aimants, et comment un plateau metallique tournant se change en Machine electrique. Je vous Remercie mille fois de la lettre Savante et philosophique que vous aviez voulu m'adresser.

Veuillez bien agreer mes Salutations très affectueuses - | Hachette

Rue st hyacinthe, St Michel 8.

Paris | 7 janvier 1832 -. | t.s.v.p.

P.S. Vous trouverez cy joint deux feuilles du lycée, qui Rendent compte de la Communication que j'ai faite d'aprés votre lettre du 17 decembre 18313 - | H.

TRANSLATIONDear Sir and Colleague,

On 26 December 1831 I read to the Académie Royale des Sciences the letter that you honoured me by writing on the 17th of the same month4. This letter was very well received. The pleasure I felt on learning of your new discoveries, was shared by my colleagues, notably by Messrs Arago, Ampère and Savart5. M. Arago, our permanent secretary, read the extract of your letter that I had given him before the Session.

I would like to learn how you managed to produce electric currents by means of magnets and how a metal turntable changes into an electric machine. I thank you a thousand times for the learned and philosophical letter that you kindly sent to me.

Please accept my most kind regards, | Hachette.

Rue St Hyacinthe St Michel 8.

Paris 7 January 1832 - | P.T.O.

P.S. You will find enclosed two articles from Le Lycée, which describe the paper I gave after your letter of 17 December 18316. | H.

1
Judging by "Académie des Sciences de Paris Séance du 26 décembre 1831", Le Lycée(no 35), 29 December 1831, p.187, which contained a paraphrase of Faraday's letter to Hachette, this letter seems to have had the same structure and content as Faraday to Phillips, 29 November 1832, letter 522, volume 1.
2
Félix Savart (1791-1841, DSB). French physicist.
3
"Académie des Sciences de Paris Séance du 26 décembre 1831", Le Lycée(no 35), 29 December 1831, p.187 and "Courans électriques", ibid.(no 36), 1 January 1832, pp. 141-2. Both of these are in RI MS F3 B759-72. Faraday endorsed them that he had received them on 12 January 1832.
4
Judging by "Académie des Sciences de Paris Séance du 26 décembre 1831", Le Lycée(no 35), 29 December 1831, p.187, which contained a paraphrase of Faraday's letter to Hachette, this letter seems to have had the same structure and content as Faraday to Phillips, 29 November 1832, letter 522, volume 1.
5
Félix Savart (1791-1841, DSB). French physicist.
6
"Académie des Sciences de Paris Séance du 26 décembre 1831", Le Lycée(no 35), 29 December 1831, p.187 and "Courans électriques", ibid.(no 36), 1 January 1832, pp. 141-2. Both of these are in RI MS F3 B759-72. Faraday endorsed them that he had received them on 12 January 1832.

Please cite as “Faraday0527,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 9 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0527