915 - LÉVIS, Pierre Marc Gaston, Duke of (1764–1830), deputy to the Estates General of 1789, writer and politician, member of the Académie française. A collection of 12 autograph manuscripts, most of which are drafts. Approximately 26 pages of various sizes. No place, no date. Creases and stains.

LÉVIS, Pierre Marc Gaston, Duke of (1764–1830), deputy to the Estates General of 1789, writer and politician, member of the Académie française. A collection of 12 autograph manuscripts, most of which are drafts. Approximately 26 pages of various sizes. No place, no date. Creases and stains. - Opinion on Article 8 of the draft press bill, concerning religious morality; - Outline, or rather ideas, for a novel—this text will “probably” be in epistolary form. The main character will have “even more genius than wit,” but a genius “without principles,” which will be contrasted with the heroine’s “virtuous genius”; - Preface to *The Death of Henry IV*, intended for an edition of Gabriel Legouvé’s play) ; - “Portrait of My Mother,” a moral and physical portrait of his mother. Several paragraphs deleted; - “The Conversation,” a dialogue in the form of a tableau between scholars, an officer, a magistrate, and a countess); - Bonaparte, 2nd draft: “Bonaparte’s courage had nothing impetuous about it; - it bore no resemblance whatsoever to ardor—or rather, to what I feel [...]”; - Letter to the Duchess of Ventadour, May 13, 1826; - Necessary security measures [...]; - Verses [...]; - 20,000 [...]; - “Mgr, I do not wish [...]”; Remarkable letter [...] to Lord Marshal on the occasion of the defeat at the Battle of Kolin, 1757 [...]. A FINE COLLECTION.