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Casimir DELAVIGNE (Le Havre 1793-1843, poet and playwright, he was the youngest to be elected member of the Académie française at 35) / Autograph manuscript signed (in the title) of an ode to Napoleon, in Italian (he had spent a few years in Italy in the late 1820s), 8 pages small in-4 (19 x 24.5 cm, old handwritten note at the head from a collector) / Enclosed: autograph letter signed, 1 p in-8 plus address page (page detached)

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Casimir DELAVIGNE (Le Havre 1793-1843, poet and playwright, he was the youngest to be elected member of the Académie française at 35) / Autograph manuscript signed (in the title) of an ode to Napoleon, in Italian (he had spent a few years in Italy in the late 1820s), 8 pages small in-4 (19 x 24.5 cm, old handwritten note at the head from a collector) / Enclosed: autograph letter signed, 1 p in-8 plus address page (page detached)

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