Victor HUGO. Long autograph letter signed and addressed on August 21, 1847 "to the minister and colleague" in which the writer joins the playwrights of the Opera to complain and ask the minister to withdraw the clause introduced by him in the specifications of the Opera "the claim of the authors, so founded in law and in reason, does not harm in any way the true interests of the Opera". 1 page in-4.

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