51 - BAINVILLE (Jacques). Correspondence consisting of 26 autograph, signed letters to the historian, writer, and journalist Christian Melchior-Bonnet, then literary advisor at Flammarion. 1925–1935.

BAINVILLE (Jacques). Correspondence consisting of 26 autograph, signed letters to the historian, writer, and journalist Christian Melchior-Bonnet, then literary advisor at Flammarion. 1925–1935. “MAURRAS ASKS ME —something I’m unable to locate—where, about a month ago, there appeared THE ACCOUNT OF A CONVERSATION WITH TAINE, WHO, WHEN ASKED WHAT FUTURE HE HAD ENVISIONED FOR FRANCE, REPLIED: ‘THAT OF AN ITALIAN REPUBLIC.’... ” (August 1934). — “I am very touched by the trouble you took to write to me. Obviously, what must have interested Maurras in this elusive phrase is that he sensed an echo of his own ‘municipal’ taste. On this point, whenever we argue about it, I always end up telling him that he prefers Florence to Rome... ” (August 9, 1934). – “... Maurras has rediscovered the word by Taine that interested him so much. It was quoted by Hanotaux in the *Revue de France*... I received a letter from Mr. [André] Chevrillon that moved me deeply regarding the German threat” (September 1, 1934). He also mentions the preparation and publication of his works LOUIS II OF BAVARIA, NAPOLEON, LIFE OF NAPOLEON, BONAPARTE IN EGYPT, HISTORIES OF THE TWO PEOPLES. – Etc. ENCLOSED: 3 autograph, signed letters from Jacques Bainville’s widow (dated 1938, according to notes in another hand), 2 newspaper clippings, and a handwritten draft of a reply to Jacques Bainville.