63 - Musset at the General Examinations. BELIN - ROCHE. Annals of the General Examinations, Part Three, or a Collection of All the Essays Awarded Third Place in the University’s General Examinations up to 1826...

Musset at the General Examinations. BELIN - ROCHE. Annals of the General Examinations, Part Three, or a Collection of All the Essays Awarded Third Place in the University’s General Examinations up to 1826... Paris, Hachette, 1826, in-8, VIII-135 pp. -105 pp.- 97 pp.- 113 pp. Paperback, plain dust jacket, label. (As published). Minor foxing throughout the volume. Latin translations; essays; Latin verses; Greek translations presented at the general examinations from 1805 to 1826. Some of the contestants would go on to become famous: Victor Cousin; de Wailly; L.-A. Blanqui; the Duke of Chartres; Alfred de Musset (6th place in the Latin translation in 1824); Alphonse Karr; Littré; Quicherat; Eugène Scribe; Sainte-Beuve... For some of them, their exam papers can only be found in this volume.