[MANUSCRIT - GEOFFROY (Julien Louis)] - Unpublished correspondence of Geoffroy. Paris. 1786 & 1787. Manuscript of the end of the 18th c. in a small volume in-4°, bradel, cardboard decorated with turnings, case (binding end of 19th c.). A title and 399 pp. Transcription of letters addressed between October 29, 1786 and December 21, 1787 by Julien Louis Geoffroy to a Russian prince. Julien Louis Geoffroy (born in Rennes in 1743 and died in Paris in 1814), creator of the literary feuilleton in the Journal des Débats, was the most famous critic of the imperial period.

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