Null Virginie VERASIS, Countess of CASTIGLIONE (1837-1899). L.A.S. "VVerasis", […

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Virginie VERASIS, Countess of CASTIGLIONE (1837-1899). L.A.S. "VVerasis", [ca. 1857?, to Viscount de Sancy]; 2 1/2 pages in-8. Viscount de Sancy has written her a letter (enclosed) in which he says, among other things, that he has received anonymous letters concerning her. She replies firmly: "I don't recognize anyone's right to give details about my interior [...] and I don't see how this could concern you. Finally, I don't understand what you mean by my old and new relationships. I still see my friends, make new acquaintances. I go on with them if I like them, and I think I'm free at home when I don't ask anyone for anything. I would therefore ask others not to meddle in my affairs, which are none of their business"...

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Virginie VERASIS, Countess of CASTIGLIONE (1837-1899). L.A.S. "VVerasis", [ca. 1857?, to Viscount de Sancy]; 2 1/2 pages in-8. Viscount de Sancy has written her a letter (enclosed) in which he says, among other things, that he has received anonymous letters concerning her. She replies firmly: "I don't recognize anyone's right to give details about my interior [...] and I don't see how this could concern you. Finally, I don't understand what you mean by my old and new relationships. I still see my friends, make new acquaintances. I go on with them if I like them, and I think I'm free at home when I don't ask anyone for anything. I would therefore ask others not to meddle in my affairs, which are none of their business"...

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HISTORY JOURDAN Jean-Baptiste (1762-1833) marshal. L.A.S. to Alexandre Rousselin de Saint-Albin, at Le Coudrai, August 1, 1821. ¾ p. in-4, addressed. On his memoirs. "Having left my handwritten memoirs in the hands of a friend of mine who wished to read them, I am unable to communicate them to you at this time, but I hope that they will be returned to me by St. Louis, at which time I propose to make a trip to Paris; I will carry them with me, and you will be able to acquaint yourself with them during my stay in the Capital []"; MARINE. 2 manuscripts: Saint-Nazaire March 22 and 24, 1878; 6 pp.1/2 in-fol. Handwritten reports on the sinking of the ship Liberté-Pour-Tous, following an exceptional storm on March 22 and 24, 1878. Intended for shipowner Gabriel Lauriol and his insurers, they recount the dramatic events that occurred "aboard the French three-masted barque Liberté-Pour-Tous, of the Port of Nantes", caught in a tropical cyclone off South Africa in the Indian Ocean. These two reports give an account of the damage caused to the ship and its cargo loaded at Bimlipatam (India). A postcard depicting "L'Etoile" is enclosed; MORNY Charles de (1811-1865). L.A.S., to Charles Merruau, (s.l.n.d.) " Friday evening"; 1 p. in-8 with his crowned cipher. "M. B Delessert asks me to ask you to reproduce this letter from him in Le Constitutionnel this evening. I think you will have no objection []". Attached is a telegram of condolence addressed to Mme Merruau by the Countess de Pierrefonds [Empress Eugénie].

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

[Autographs]. [Gens de lettres et historiens]. Important collection of letters and signed documents, almost all autographed. Eighteenth to nineteenth centuries (moderate defects, the most serious are noted). - BEAUFORT D'HAUTPOUL, Anne-Marie de (1763-1837). Woman of letters. 1 supposedly autograph letter, to Baroness Paulin, April 8, 1830 + 1 lithograph portrait (wet)). - BÖTTIGER, Charles Auguste (1760-1835). German archaeologist, philologist and writer. 1 L.A.S. in German, to a friend, Dresden, 1824 + handwritten translation + 1 lithograph portrait. - CAILHAVA, Jean-François (1730-1813). Playwright, poet and critic. 1 autograph letter of condolence signed, to M. Laya in Sevran. - CESAROTTI, Melchior (1730-1808). Italian Catholic priest; professor of ancient Greek and Hebrew at the Seminary of Padua. 1 L.A.S., in Italian, from Padua, March 13, 1801, 1 page in-4 (foxing). - CHÉNIER, Marie-Joseph de (1764-1811). Member of the Convention, the Conseil des Cinq Cents and the Tribunat. Author of tragedies and lyricist of numerous revolutionary songs. 1 autograph bill signed, to Monsieur Laia [i.e. Laya], July 22, 1789, 1 page in-12 + 1 printed, Querelle de Saint-Roche, 8 pages in-12 + 2 portraits, one engraved (freckles), the other lithographed (wet). - COLET, Louise (1810-1876). French poet and woman of letters. I L.A.S., Tuesday 21, 2 p. + 1 lithographed portrait. - CUBIERES, Michel de (1752-1820). Writer, poet and philosopher. 1 L.A.S., Paris, 6 germinal an 13, 1 page in-folio (foxing). - DALTON, Jane (c. 1742-1817), British translator, botanist and bibliophile, who owned in particular the botanical books from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's library; correspondent of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, for whom she translated the first English version of Paul et Virginie, entitled "Paul and Mary, an Indian story" and published in 1789. L.A.S., to J. H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. [Paris, s.d.]. 2 pages in-8. Staying in Paris, and having received no reply to her letter sent from London six weeks earlier, worries that she has not had "the pleasure of doing some errands for you", and adds "I want to flatter myself that you have preserved for me a remnant of friendship", and requests permission to visit Bernardin de Saint-Pierre at his home, "I wish infinitely to see [...] Virginie & little Paul". - DAMIRON, Jean-Philibert (1794-1862), Professor of philosophy at the Paris Faculty of Letters. Autograph bill signed. - DU CERCEAU, Jean-Antoine (1670-1730) French Jesuit priest, poet. Signed receipt dated February 1, 1718. - FAIN, Agathon-Jean-François (1778-1836). Intendant and private secretary to Napoleon I; keeper of the Imperial Archives. 1 L.A.S., Mainz, April 21, 1813, [to his son Camille], to his children, "mes chers petits amis", as he leaves for Germany. 2 p. in-12 + 1 medical prescription for him. - GUILLARD, Nicolas-François (1752-1814). Poet, playwright and librettist. 1 L.A.S., Paris, April 15, 1813, to Picard, director of the Acad. de Musique. 1 p. in-4. Announces his resignation from the literary jury. - LEGOUVÉ, Gabriel (1764-1812). Poet and playwright, member of the Institut and Académie française. Autograph bill signed, to a friend, July 7, 1811, 1 p. in-16. - LONGEPIERRE, Hilaire-Bernard de (1659-1731). Playwright, translator of Anacreon and Sapho, Bion and Moschus, secretary to the commands of the Duc de Berri. One signed receipt, on stamped parchment, [1690 ?]. - MARIN, François-Louis-Claude (1721-1809). Playwright and gazetier, royal censor and general secretary of the direction de la librairie. 1 Autograph letter signed, 1 p. ½ in-4, in which he denounces a publication likely to be favorable to Calvinists. - MARTAINVILLE, Alphonse (1776-1830). Playwright and journalist. A supposedly autograph song signed "fait par Martainville", 2 p. ½ in-4 + copy of his "Ode à Napoléon, 1807", 2 p. in-8 + 2 f. of later notes on the author. - PANARD, Charles-François (1689-1765). Poet, author of comedies, erotic poems and dithyrambs. A handwritten song, supposedly autograph. 1 p. in-folio (browning). - PELTIER, Jean-Gabriel (1760-1825). Journalist and pamphleteer, co-editor with Rivarol of Les Actes des Apôtres. An autograph letter signed, to M. Baudus in Hamburg, from London, August 22, 1787. 1 p. ½ in-4. Discusses newspapers whose late delivery (probably to Martinique) thwarts success with few subscribers + 1 signed autograph receipt for 2 subscriptions to his newspaper L'Ambigu, August 12, 1802. - SAINTE-BEUVE, Charles-Augustin (1804-1869). Novelist, poet and critic, member of the Académie fran

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[Autographs]. [Nobility. History]. Collection of pieces and letters written between 1570 and 1925: ESTRÉE, Jean d' (1486-1571), Grand Master of the Artillery of France, grandfather of Gabrielle d'Estrée. Signed document, dated November 19, 1570, 2/3 page folio. Concerns the management of his affairs, giving a payment order to his receiver Pascal. Attached is a portrait of J. d'Estrée engraved in the 19th c. SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE-FÉNELON (Louis I), bishop of Sarlat from 1579 to 1598. Signed document, dated [March 21, 1597]. 2 pages in-4, later armorial seal (small burn on qq. letters). CATELIN (de, 18th c.). Extract from a batême register concerning him, 1713, one page in-4, signed "Louis Pierre évêque de Toulon", dry stamp of the bishopric, stamp of the Cabinet d'Hozier. MONTMORENCY, maréchal de (18th c.). L.A.S. "Le Mal de Montmorency", January 21, 1737, 2 ½ pages small in-4, about the transformation of a road and a toll benefit. Mention of reply in another hand addressed to Mr. Desmottes. TENCIN, Pierre-Paul Guérin de (1680-1758), cardinal, archbishop of Lyon. Letter signed, [addressed to the Duc de Nivernais], dated Versailles, February 3, 1749. 3 ½ pages small in-4. BELLE-ISLE, Charles Fouquet, duc de (1684-1761), marshal of France, academician. L.S. to Figuières, his treasurer. Versailles, May 7, 1749. 1 page in-4. Reply to a request for help. FÉNELON, J.B.A. Salignac de (1714-1794), chaplain to Marie Leszczynska (assumed author). Autograph bill signed "Fénelon", addressed to a clerk, undated. 3 lines on a page in-4, autograph address and stamp on v° (faded, part of one leaf missing). LEBRUN, Charles-François (1739-1824), Duc de Plaisance, politician, one of the three consuls appointed by Bonaparte. L.A.S. to the Princesse de Berghe, dated October 20, 1807. 1 page in-4. - Enclosed: a L.A.S. from one of his sons, signed "LB. de Plaisance", addressed to Count Orloff, ½ page in-4, address on v°. LACÉPÈDE, Bernard Germain Étienne de Laville-sur-Illon de (1756-1825), zoologist, politician, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor. Letter signed "b.g.é. etc de lacépède", addressed to Monsieur Monnier, dated December 10, 1812, on the letterhead of the Legion of Honor. 1 folio page (tears, holes in some letters). DURAS, Amédée-Bretagne-Malo de Durfort, duc de (1771-1838), maréchal de camp, pair de France. Bill signed, at the Tuileries, March 3, 1822, to the Marquise de Villeneuve and Countess Mathilde de Villeneuve, warning them that they would be presented to the King the following day, by the Marquise de Biron and Countess de Gontaut. ½ page in-4, printed letterhead of the King's Chamber. Attached, from the same source, 3 L.A.S. and a signed Letter, one addressed to the poet Guiraut, another to the Count de Coupigny d'Hem. Also includes a portrait of his ancestor Jacques Henry de Durasfort engraved on copper by N. de Larmessin in 1680. BONAPARTE, Victor, known as Prince Napoléon (1862-1926). L.A.S., addressed to "Mon cher Baron", Brussels, January 10 [18]87. 1 page in-12. [CHARLOTTE, Princess of England, attributed to]. Two autograph letter fragments preserved as relics; possibly in the hand of Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817). NIEL, Adolphe (1802-1869), Marshal of France. L.A.S., to a lady, n.d., 1 page in-8; he asks her for the address of the tailor "who makes your pants in cloth for riding [...] My daughter wants one like yours...". (tear not missing). ORLÉANS, Philippe d' (1869-1926), Count of Paris. L.A.S. to "Mon bon général", dated February 16 [18]97. 6 pages on 2 f. in-4, mourning paper (2 versos a little rubbed). LA TOUR-DU-PIN MONTAUBAN (marquis de). Copy of his letter of resignation addressed to the Chambre des Pairs, [19th c.], one page in-4. ORLÉANS, Robert d' (1840-1910), Duke of Chartres. L.A.S., to a lady, dated October 27 [18]95. 1 page in-12. ORLÉANS (d'). Autograph invitation bill signed, addressed to "Mon cher Duc", dated F[aubourg] S[aint] Honoré 129, January 16, 1878. One page in-16, mourning paper. BONAPARTE, Marie (1882-1962), woman of letters and psychoanalyst. L.A. signed "Marie, P[rince]sse de Grèce", addressed to a researcher, dated May 9, 1925. 2 pages in-12. "I find, Sir, on my return [...] the fascicles you kindly sent me [...]. She suggests that her correspondent visit her to talk about the "admirable work you have devoted yourself to [...]".

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