71 - FLAUBERT (Gustave). Signed autograph letter [addressed to Jules Rohaut]. No place, “Friday morning” [September 4, 1874]. One page, in-8.

FLAUBERT (Gustave). Signed autograph letter [addressed to Jules Rohaut]. No place, “Friday morning” [September 4, 1874]. One page, in-8. Bouvard and Pécuchet, the characters from the eponymous novel published in 1881, were copyists before deciding to settle down together in Chavignolles. “My dear friend, as soon as you have a little free time, please think of me. YOU PROMISED ME INFORMATION ABOUT THE COPYIST’S TRADE! I would need the most detailed and explicit information on this subject. Because in about two weeks I’ll be heading back to Croisset to get to work. So write me a short note, bringing together all your specific recollections [sic]. You’ll be doing me a great favor. Yours sincerely...” A friend of Louis Bouilhet, the publicist Jules Rohaut—who wrote under the pen name “Jules Dementhe”—was sometimes asked for information by Gustave Flaubert, who also used his influence to recommend him. Gustave Flaubert, Correspondence, Paris, (NRF, Pléiade), Vol. V, Supplement, 2007, p. 1089.