739 - COPPÉE, François: 2 signed autograph poems and 1 original letter. Autograph manuscripts of poems in alexandrines, perhaps intended—given their provenance—for publication in *L'Indépendance belge*. 1. "L'asile de nuit." No place, [c. 1880]. 5 pp. on 5 ff. 20 x 15 cm, black ink on watermarked vellum paper, 2 corrections in the same hand (horizontal center fold). A social poem written for the centennial of the Philanthropic Society on May 9, 1880, and later included in *Contes en vers et poésies diverses* (1881). - 2. “Le Jugement de l’Epée.” No place, [c. 1878]. 2 pp. on 2 ff., 20 x 15 cm, black ink on watermarked laid paper (crease marks from mailing, slight foxing on the last line of the first f.). An epic tale published in 1878 in *Les récits et les élégies*. - 3. Autograph letter to “Dear Sir” [Gaston Bérardi]. Marlotte (Seine-et-Marne), July 8 [c. 1885]. 1 p., double-leaf in-12, black ink on graph paper (slight foxing in the center). A note accompanying his contribution “for the celebration to be held for the Hungarian delegation [in Paris],” with a reference to the reception given to the French delegation at the Hungarian National Exhibition in 1885, in which he participated along with Gaston Bérardi. From the collection of [Gaston Bérardi (1849–1926), art critic and Paris correspondent for the Brussels newspaper *L’Indépendance belge*, which he took over as editor-in-chief in 1884, succeeding his father Léon Bérardi].