FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN:

FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: A good selection of A.Ls.S. by a variety of famous French men and women, most associated with the arts during the 19th century, including Leon Gozlan (seeking confirmation of the date for a lecture), Joseph Mery (recommending a young orphan on the verge of marriage), Henry Murger (asking for a box at the theatre for four people), Jules Janin (explaining that he had little influence in helping a young tenor whom he had not been able to introduce to Hector Berlioz, who was in Germany, and also mentioning Malibran), Pierre-Jean de Beranger (requesting that a letter be forwarded to Coutaut at the Plon publishing house), Alfred Bruneau (explaining that he has run out of seats for his next performance), Laure Cinti-Damoreau (a lengthy letter regarding a recommendation for a former dresser with the opera), Edouard Detaille (complying to a request from an autograph collector), Camille Doucet (two letters to Antoine Bertora, Secretary to the Chamberlains of Emperor Napoleon III), Sophie Gay (thanking her correspondent for a sympathetic article about La Duchesse de Chateauroux), Paul Milliet (to Leon Bessand, making reference to Massenet´s opera Herodiade, to which Milliet had contributed the libretto), Tonia Navar (a charming series of seven letters from the actress to her close friend, the courtesan Liane de Pougy), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (to Hippolyte Durand-Tahier on the subject of Berlin), Horace Vernet (making himself available to his correspondent for the necessary explanations on a report he has written without spectacles), Edouard Delessert (two letters, in one making a reference to his friend the opera composer Ernest Reyer), Pierre Henri-Simon (written to the recto and verso of his personal visiting card), Oscar Milosz (providing his address in Paris to the editor of the literary review La Bouteille a la Mer) etc. Some light age wear and a few minor faults, generally G to VG, 32