VIGNY Alfred de (1797-1863)

Autograph letter signed to Victor HUGO. S.l., March 25, 1831, 2 pages on a double sheet in-8 in black ink, autograph address on the verso of the second sheet: "Monsieur Victor Hugo/rue Jean-Gougon - 6", postal marks, traces of stamp. (Small tear at the central fold, slight lack of paper). Alfred de Vigny enthusiastically praises the beauties of Notre-Dame de Paris, a famous collection, comparing his friend Victor to a nurturing and inexhaustible mother. "I have just finished your book, I am on the steps of Notre-Dame, and I never stop looking at it, still dazzled by the great architecture. [I don't know on which beauty I should direct my admiration. How good a mother you are! A mother inexhaustible in kisses, in caresses on the little shoes and hair of her child, a tender mother inexhaustible in adorable words of love, whose breast is always swollen with pure and nourishing milk, whose arms know how to cradle and relax! It is a delightful thing to see you thus identified with Paquette la Chantefleurie, it is to make one happy for several days, in spite of the time we are in." Victor Hugo will consider himself "fulfilled" by this letter: "title of nobility that I will keep for my children" (letter of April 8, 1831 addressed to Vigny).