Périgord - LACHAMBEAUDIE (Pierre). Manuscripts [title on the back of the binding]. Paris, Brussels, 1849-1854 and sd. Small folio (30,1 x 21 cm) of (17) ff. of various sizes, 16 of which mounted on tabs; Bradel cardboard, boards covered with marbled paper, garnet-colored title page (late 19th century binding). Beautiful set of manuscripts of the poet, fabulist and chansonnier Pierre Lachambeaudie. It includes 2 engraved plates (including a portrait), 1 autograph letter signed, 7 autograph manuscripts (6 signed) and 1 signed piece : - Engraved portrait. Paris, Imprimerie de Drouart, Bry aîné, éditeur, s.d., 1 p. in-8, mounted on a flyleaf; represents the author around the middle of the 19th century. - Autograph letter signed to a friend. [Paris], 39 rue Saint-Ambroise, s.d., 1 p. in-8. He asks his correspondent to give him back a manuscript that he needs, in order to prepare "a small volume in prose". - L'Amour et le chagrin. Fable. Autograph manuscript signed. Rade de Brest, aboard the Duguesclin, February 9, 1852, 1 ½ p. (published in Fables, Paris, J. Bry, 1855). - Le Laminoir. Autograph manuscript signed. S.l.n.d., ½ p. in-12 (id.). - Le Brochet. Autograph manuscript signed. S.l.n.d., 1 p. in-8 (id.). - La Fleur et le nuage. Fable, by Pierre Lachambeaudie. Book II, fable XV. Engraved plate, drawn by Adrien Guignet, engraved by Ernest Monnin and printed by Tarlé. Signed autograph address : " Homage from his respectful Pierre Lachambeaudie " (id.). - L'Amour qui boit la bière, et l'Amour qui boit le vin. Song. Autograph manuscript signed. S.l.n.d., 1 p. ½ in-8. Stamp "Uylenspiegel. Redaction. Bruxelles" (published in Poésies diverses, Paris, Pagnerre, 1862). - Le Bout de viande (Bout de sermon). Autograph manuscript signed. S.l.n.d., 1 p. in-4, wrinkled paper, traces of folds. - I still cry. Autograph manuscript. S.l.n.d., 3 pp. ¼ in-8, qq. erasures and corrections. Relates a disappointment in love when he was a railroad employee in Roanne in 1832. - Ma Mère. Autograph manuscript signed. Brussels, September 14, 1854, 2 ½ pp. in-folio. Evocation of his mother, who died when he was six months old, and transcription of an imaginary message received from her during his exile in Brussels. - Contract with the publisher Michel. Signed document, also signed by the publisher. Paris, October 25, 1849 and July 23, 1850, 2 parts in 3 pp. in-4, tax stamp. Concerns the publication of a complete edition of the Fables et poésies diverses. The first part, in 18 articles, contains the conditions of publication: edition, illustrations, exploitation of the edition, royalties, etc. The second part, in 4 articles, contains the modifications made to the contract. Born in Montignac-sur-Vézère (Dordogne) in 1806, Pierre Lachambeaudie took the Saint-Simonian habit in Lyon in 1832 and arrived in Paris the following year, where he published several collections of fables and poetry. His songs, of socialist inspiration, brought him fame. Arrested following the days of June 1848 because of his friendship with Blanqui, he was released thanks to the intervention of Béranger. Sentenced to deportation after the coup d'état of December 2, 1851, his sentence was commuted and he went into exile in Brussels. Back in Paris in 1856, he published new collections and died in Brunoy (Essonne) in 1872 (Cf. Maitron, Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier (online).