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Lot 1 - ARCHITECTURE - RONDELET: Traité théorique et pratique de l'art de bâtir. Chez l'Auteur, 1804. 3 vols. in-4 half red long-grained contemporary morocco (corners worn, ) Incomplete work. We have three parts: 1/the fourth delivery, with 30 folding plates; 2/the fourth volume, part two: Roofing, carpentry and locksmithing, with 31 folding plates; 3/the third volume, fifth delivery, with 25 folding plates. Fine condition for all three volumes. From the J. M. Portalis library (armorial bookplate).

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 2 - ARISTOTE: De Anima libri tres, graece et latine, Iul. Pacio a Beriga interprete. Frankfurt, Wecheli, 1596. Small in-8 contemporary covered vellum, 442 pages (paper a little browned, slight wetness, qq. underlined passages and notes in the margins, contemporary with the work). Good edition with text in Greek and Latin, and commentary in Latin, with a few figures in the text. A good copy.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 3 - BEGUIN (Jean): Les élémens de chymie de Maistre Jean Béguin, revus, expliquez et commentez par Jean Lucas de Roy, médecin Boleducois. Paris, Le Maistre, 1624. Small in-8 full contemporary vellum, 432 pp + table (paper a little browned). Illustrated with figures in the text. Jean Béguin was physician to Henri IV and chaplain to Louis XIII. This work is the first French edition of this text, which appeared in Latin under the title "Tyrocinium Chymicum". Among other things, he describes the synthesis of acetone, which he calls esprit ardent de Saturne and which he prepares by pyrolizing lead acetate (or Saturn salt). This work can be considered the first treatise on chemistry to be written in clear language, easily understood by the layman. It makes a definitive break with the hermetic practices of the alchemists. A good copy of this rare book.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 4 - BOCCACE: The Tales. Traduction nouvelle...par Sabatier de Castres. Paris, Poncelin, 1801. 11 vol. in-12 half calf, spine ribbed and decorated (19th century binding). Fine edition illustrated with 6 frontispieces (out of 11) and 104 engraved plates (out of 11) and 104 engraved plates (out of 119). Fine copy in a fine 19th-century binding.

Estim. 120 - 150 EUR

Lot 5 - DELAMETHERIE (J.C.): Théorie de la terre. Maradan, 1795. 3 volumes in-8, contemporary brown half calf, red title page (leather a little dry). Frontispiece portrait of the author by Notté and 7 folding plates. Extremely rare first edition (some light spotting). Editor of the "Journal de Physique" from 1785 to 1817, Jean-Claude Delamétherie published various works on animals, mineralogy, geology, physics and chemistry.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 6 - DRELINCOURT (Laurent): Sonnets Chretiens Sur Divers Sujets: Divisez En Quatre Livres. La Rochelle, Mancel, 1678. in-12 contemporary vellum (spine and second cover missing, last page -171- and blank pages incomplete, foxing and minor dampening). Rare La Rochelle edition of these sonnets, first published in Geneva in 1670.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 7 - School of Salerno [VILLENEUVE, Arnaud de, MAGNINUS mediolansis], CURIO, Johannes (editor): Conservandae sanitatis praecepta saluberrima : regi Angliae quondam a doctoribus Scholae Salernitanae versibus conscripta...bound following: HESSIUS: De tuenda bona valetudine . commentariis doctissimis à Ioanne Placotomo . Frankfurt, 1560. Frankfurt, 1559. Fort in-12 contemporary cold-stamped saddle-skin, clasps (some rubbing, one clasp missing). 12 ff, 279 pages and 1 blank ff for the first; 8ff and 160 pages for the second. A rare work, particularly precious for its illustrations: 63 woodcuts in the first volume, 22 in the second, in a popular German style. Some are mid-page genre scenes; others are smaller, depicting fruit, vegetables, herbs, poultry, fish, jugs, parts of the human body, scenes from rural life, etc. Of these illustrations, 11 are by Hans Sebald Beham. The other illustrations are by an artist who worked in Egenolf's studio (Oberlé 320 for another edition).

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 8 - FENELON: Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fils d'Ulysse. Didot l'Aîné, 1796. 4 vol. small in-12 full green morocco, smooth spine decorated with a cross of gilt fillets with flowers, gilt roulette on the boards, gilt edges (spine very slightly faded, some foxing). Edition illustrated with 24 charming out-of-text figures by Queverdo. An elegant copy in contemporary morocco.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 9 - GRACE (Thomas-François de): Jardinier portatif, ou la culture des quatre classes de jardins, et de l'éducation des fleurs. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, augmentée, exactement expliquée par un amateur, de plusieurs articles nouveaux. Liège, Desoer, 1769. In-12 contemporary marbled calf, smooth ornate spine (corners worn, slight foxing). A fine copy.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 10 - GUIBOURT: Histoire abrégée des drogues simples. Paris, Colas, Méquignon-Marvis, l'Auteur, 1820. 2 volumes in 1 volume in-8 contemporary half calf, smooth spine decorated (one spine split, corners rubbed, slight brown spots). 4 folding tables. First edition of this highly successful reference work.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 11 - HISTORY - Collection of 7 documents (small defects and missing parts): 1/Lettres patentes du Roy portant commission de Commandant en chef dans la province de Guyenne...1757; 2/Edit du Roi portant suppression des Offices des Procureurs du Roi de Police et de ceux des Procureurs de sa Majesté dans les Hôtels-des-Villes du Royaume. 1758. 3/Edit du Roi portant création d'un million effectif d'augmentation de gages, au denier vingt, sur les Offices désignés en l'état annexé audit Edit. 1758; 4/Arrest de la Cour de Parlement qui condamne un libelle intitulé "la réalité du projet de Bourg-Fontaine, démontré par l'exécution". 1758; 5/Arrest of the Court of Parliament condemning Robert Pons, priest, to make amends, to the galleys for life, for having abused the prayers and ceremonies of the church and the credulity of the common people. 1758. 6/Sentence rendered by the Criminal Chamber of the Châtelet of Paris, which condemns two Quidams to make honorable amends in the Parvis Notre-Dame, to have their fists cut, to be broken alive in the Place de Grève, then burned and their ashes thrown to the wind, for having nightly and with premeditated design attempted the life of one of the Portes-Dieu of the Sainte-Marguerite parish. 1758; 7/Universal Jubilee granted by our Holy Father Pope Clement XIII. 1759; Three handwritten documents enclosed.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 12 - JUVENAL: D. Iunii Iuvenalis Satirarum libri quinque, locupletissima, necus minus utili, paraphrasi illustrati à Federico Ceruto Veronensi. Ausbourg, J. Praetori, 1599. In-4 contemporary vellum. 8 ff. and 354 pp. (small marginal wormholes at the seam on the last few leaves, some minor dampening). Fine edition with text in italics and commentary in round letters, decorated with handsome wood-engraved letrines. From the William de Horsey library (bookplate). A fine copy.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 13 - MASSILLON (Bishop of Clermont): Sermons. Veuve Estienne et Hérissant, 1745. 13 vol. in-12 contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated (binding of a different vol.). Avent; Petit carême; Pseaumes; Oraisons funèbres; Pensées; Mystères; Panégirique; Carême, 4 volumes; Conférences, 2 vols.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 14 - MEDICINE - THORNTON (R.-J.): Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock: including an account of the inoculation of the village of Lowther. London, Symons, Johnson, etc., 1802. In-8 contemporary shagreened calf, ornate smooth spine, gilt roulette on covers, gilt edges (corners a little dulled).240 pp. First edition of this very rare work, one of the very first on the supposed benefits of vaccinations. A fine copy.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 15 - MICHAELIS (S.): Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une pénitente séduit par un magicien, la faisant sorcière et princesse des sorciers au Pays de Provence...Paris, Chastellain, 1613. 3 parts in one small in-8 volume, full contemporary gilt vellum, smooth ornate spine, arms on covers with crowned numerals in corners, gilt edges (2 cuts to hinges, tears with missing paper and a few letters on title page, light foxing and slight dampening, small marginal worm work at upper hinge). 3 blank ff, 16 ff. 352 pp. 124 pp. 196 pp. 14 ff table, 3 blank ff. Extremely rare edition of this curious treatise on demonology. The work relates how, in the city of Marseille, Louys Gaufridy, a priest and magician for fourteen years, sold his body, soul and works to the Devil, in exchange for the gift of being followed by all the women he would love (cf. Caillet, t. III, n°7505). The second part, in separate pagination and with a separate title, is entitled Discours des esprits entant qu'il est de besoin, pour entendre resoudre la matiere difficile des Sorciers. There are two different editions of this work: ours, perfectly in keeping with the digitized copy in the Bibliothèque de Lyon, is probably a first edition; the Gallica digitization, probably a second edition, shows clear differences in layout and typography, and several introductory leaves have been added. Dorbon [3073: "Un des traités de démonologie les plus complets"], Dorbon [3074: "livre très rare et fort curieux"], Caillet [III, 7507], Guaita [717: "Ouvrage de démonologie des plus curieux et fort rare"]. A very rare and precious copy bearing the arms and figures of Marie de Médicis (1575-1642), a highly sought-after provenance (Olivier, plate 2504, irons 2 and 4).

Estim. 5 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lot 16 - BINDING - A form of prayer and thanksgiving to almighty God, to be used troughout the Cities of London and Westminster... Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, London, 1690. In-4 contemporary red morocco, ornate ribbed spine, rock decoration on covers with alternating flowers, lions and crowns, central medallion framing a crowned cypher (qq defects of use, marginal spotting around pages). 17 pages. Rare work in a rich armorial binding to be identified. Handwritten bookplate of Ellénor Saunders (1850).

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 17 - THEATRE - A collection of plays in 1 vol. in-8 period half-basane, tomée t.2. Each play complete. 1/PICARD: La vieille tante, ou les collatéraux. Comédie. Martinet, 1811. 120 pp; 2/BOURSAULT: Esope à la cour, comédie héroyque. Toulouse, Brouilhiet, 1788. 64 pp.; 3/PELLETIER-VOLMERANGES: Les frères à l'épreuve, Drama. Lyon, Chambet, 1818. 80 pp.; 4/DUMANIANT: La nuit aux aventures, ou les deux morts vivants, comédie. Cailleau, 1788. 48 pp.

Estim. 50 - 60 EUR

Lot 18 - ALBUM AMICORUM - One volume in-8 full contemporary brown chagrin, ornate ribbed spine (worn, boards detached). German album amicorum belonging to Mr. Wacheter, comprising numerous handwritten texts, mainly in German, but also in French, Spanish and English. From 1855 onwards. Some of the signatories: Wilhelm Prömer; Charles Lord of London; A. Huxham; A. de la Riviera (Spain); L. Lysen, Belgium; Alaga de Caraéas, South America; Bushühl; Horacio Dickinson, Santander; J. Everts; Fernando G. de Alvear, Havana; Ida Knorr; Collignon, Belgium; Mary Spilker, Baltimore; Johanna André; Henry F. Robinson, New York; H. G. de Olivarez, Madrid; Auguste André; Charles Spilker, Baltimore; R.F. Farwig, London; Auguste Roch, Vienna; Emil Kuhn; W.G. Robinson, New York; Lippe Paderbern; Leopold Kaufmann; Henri von Hadeln; Otto Hoffmann; C. Lewenstein; C. Hagenbusch; D. Gelderman; John Farwig, London; Clementine Spilker, Baltimore; Felix Primaresi; Mateo de la portilla, Santander. and a small signed watercolor.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 19 - Anne-Alexandre de L'Hôpital, marquis de Sainte-Mesme, lieutenant general of the king's armies: Handwritten receipt dated 1679, signed by the marquis, but also by Merville Minot, abbot of Saint Laumer, Blois. And other signatures. Two folio pages.

Estim. 100 - 120 EUR

Lot 20 - Auguste ROMIEU (1800-1885), Vaudevillist and Minsiter of Fine Arts under Napoleon III: LAS of May 2, 1852, announcing the ministerial subscription of 100 copies to the "Curious book entitled Mémoires sur l'enfance et la jeunesse de Napoléon"...1 1/4 page in-8.

Estim. 30 - 40 EUR

Lot 21 - BARBEY d'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889) Very fine handwritten political text titled: "Les Bottes de foin". 2 folio pages (rough edge repairs). Superb polemical text, written in colored inks, attacking Political Parties, the Republic, Democracy, on the occasion of the candidacy for deputation (probably in 1873) of Désiré Barodet, a politician known for his violent anticlericalism. "...if he thinks it's on his merits...that the Republicans - his brothers and his friends - are so furiously crowing and clamoring about his candidacy, the poor man's in a famous delusion! And it's not just us monarchists who'll get him out of it; it's not just us who'll warn him that he's the most pathetic grotesque that Democracy, that woman of clowns, has ever married...It's his own friends-the but of Job at this Job Politique..."; "....These hungry democrats, enticed by the smell of hay, have they not swallowed the haystack of Hugo, which Rochefort, when it was only half swallowed, called wet hay capable of giving colic and flatulence to the majestic belly of the Republic..."; "...So Barodet, what will you do and what will you be once swallowed and digested by your delicious little mother, Democracy? And what will be left of your interesting person, Barodet, if not what remains of a sailor, in the infected air, on a shore where anthropophagi have passed..."; "...the question for us is this - and this is the most terrible and thoroughgoing argument against the republic...is there anything more revolting and disgusting to proud minds and noble men than those systems of government where no one is taken for his own worth, but where everyone can be chosen in spite of the worth he doesn't have? ..."; "...And it doesn't even bother to lie, Democracy! It says cynically, like the privateer: take my monkey! ...Ah, make no mistake! this is the essence of Democracy! for it, personalities are nothing, because one day they can be everything! A man of great personality is always odious or suspect to any Republic. What this government needs, which is nothing but the organization of envy, are puppets who can be thrown into the fire once the strings have been broken, puppets, Barodets...". A very fine political text.

Estim. 1 400 - 1 800 EUR

Lot 22 - BEHAINE (René) 1880-1966 - Approx. 140 L.A.S. (one incomplete), 1914-1919, and 1930-1935, to publisher Bernard GRASSET or to ,his director Louis BRUN. Approx. 250 pages in various formats, numerous envelopes and addresses. IMPORTANT LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE, sometimes facetious, sometimes acrimonious, concerning "L'Histoire d'une société" and the writer's relationship with his publishing house: moods, manuscript promseses, publication schedule, proofs, advertising, remuneration, distribution, possibility of a Goncourt Prize, approaches for the Nobel Prize (thanks in particular to Pierre de Bénouville), etc....The letters are addressed first to Bernard Grasset, then increasingly and mostly to his "dauphin", the "prieur", the "hyper-director" of Editions Grasset Louis BRUN (one to Madame, one to Gabriel Brunet), with whom Béhaine developed a close friendship. Very rich correspondence, most of it written from his home in Les Rastines, Antibes, some illustrated with amusing drawings. Enclosed: a.s. manuscript of a "Avant-Propos", introduction to his "Histoire d'une société" (4p. in-4); autograph manuscript of a fanciful notice about him and his work: "René Béhaine, né en 1642...". (4 p. in-8); a heavily corrected and commented Grasset contract for "O peuple infortuné" (Grasset 1936); 15 pages of proofs of "Conquête de la vie" (Grasset, 1924); a Grasset publicity brochure devoted to the first 7 volumes of "Histoire d'une société" (1930); and 11 amateur photographs of Béhaine.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 23 - Belgium - Cardinal MERCIER: LAS dated September 4, 1912. 2 pages in-8 to a correspondent about, among other things, sending books. Archbishop of Malines, Primate of Belgium, Cardinal Mercier has earned admiration for his fine and courageous attitude during the Great War and the German occupation of his country.

Estim. 50 - 60 EUR

Lot 24 - BLOIS - Important collection of handwritten letters concerning the Asile des Alinénés in Blois: 49 letters and 10 envelopes. Many of these letters are addressed to the director, including letters from the General Administration of Public Assistance in Paris. Years 1855 - 1870. Very interesting set.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 25 - BLOIS - LAS signed de SAINT-ANGE (Ange-François Fariau, dit): L.A.S. to M. Barbier, librarian to the Emperor and the King. October 16, 1808. One page in-4. "It seems that you have not yet found the opportunity to remind me of the Emperor. The opportunity only comes with leaden feet, if you don't rush it. He'll be back soon. Seize the first moment to say to him: Sire, when I presented to your Majesty the superb edition of M. Desaintange's great and beautiful work, it was the day before your departure...". Saint-Ange was a poet and translator of Ovid, born in Blois.

Estim. 100 - 120 EUR

Lot 26 - BLOIS - A collection of handwritten letters and documents sent to officials in Blois in the 19th century. Including rare frankings.

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 27 - BLOIS - Reunion of four handwritten pieces addressed to Mr de La Saussaye: 1/long LAS dated Blois 1851, signed "Couteau", 4 pages; 2/A very long handwritten poem, unsigned, addressed to Mr de La Saussaye, 8 pages in-8, dated Blois March 1847; 3/A long letter from Colonel de Montpezat, dated Blois 1er Mai 1850, about the Union electorale de Loir et Cher; 4/Two-page printed document: Epitre Apologique.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 28 - CARTON de WIART (1869-1951) Belgian sociologist, Minister of Justice during the Great War: 2 LAS addressed to Fernand Hauser, dated November 26 and December 24, 1914. 2 pages in-8 on Ministry of Justice letterhead;

Estim. 30 - 40 EUR

Lot 29 - DURAND-BREYER, naval painter: LAS addressed to General Baron Gourgaud. Dated July 3, 1843. 2 pages in-12. Beautiful letter in which he expresses his admiration for Emperor Napoleon I's companions in exile. Another LAS by the same author is attached. One page in-8.

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 30 - ESPARBES (Georges) Littérateur et journaliste: Réunion de 3 LAS adressées à un ami, datées 1903 et 1936, dont une à en-tête de la Conszrvation du Palais de Fontainebleau. 5 pages in-8.

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 31 - FRANCHET d'ESPEREY (1856-1942) Marshal of France; served in North Africa, Tonkin, China and against the Boxers. Commander-in-Chief of the Allied armies in the East, he forced the Bulgarians to sign the armistice in September 1918. LAS to a Commandant. Paris, April 9, 1938. 3 pages in-8. His correspondent writes an article on the military operations of the 1st World War: "...I have lent Colonel Grasset...the documents that might interest you...Your issue will be sensational. As far as the East is concerned, you might like to head the October 3 letter from Marshal de Hindenbourg to the Chancellor, which contains this typical sentence: following the collapse of the Macedonian front, we no longer have any hope of forcing the enemy to make peace. An admission of German defeat. ". A beautiful and interesting letter.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 32 - GIRODON Gabriel, painter, grand prix de Rome (1884-1941): Reunion of 8 LAS written during the 1914-1918 war while he was a soldier in the 6th infantry brigade of the 2nd army corps. Enclosed is a reproduction of one of his works, enriched with an autograph letter, and a small original photograph of Girodon as a soldier.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 33 - WAR 14/18 - Belgium - MAUCLAIR Camille, poet, novelist and literary critic (1872-1945): fine text in tribute to King Albert I at the height of the 14/18 war. One page in-8: "King Albert of Belgium will be immortally blessed in history for having realized to the most perfect degree the incarnation of a people in the man who governs it and the incarnation of the moral ideal of humanity in this people...".

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 34 - WAR 14/18 - Belgium - ROCHEGROSSE Georges, history painter, student of Boulanger (1859-1919): LAS dated March 11, 1915, addressed to a lady, about Albert I, King of the Belgians, in the midst of the 14/18 war: "Eloquence is not my forte, and it would take a great deal of it to speak well of the Belgian people and their King. At least I have tried to express in a few words the admiration I feel for this people and this leader....by making himself the champion of Right against Force, of Liberty against Opression, King Albert I has given one of those examples of human dignity which in the history of a people are equivalent to the most dazzling victories". One page in-8

Estim. 50 - 60 EUR

Lot 35 - WAR 14/18 - COURTELINE Georges: Moving LAS written to his "dear Loulou" (Louise), at the start of the First World War. Rochecorbon August 14, 1914. 4 pages in-8: "Here is Lille in the hands of these bastards, and here we are, very worried...no more cafés! almost no comrades! no more lights or more or less! ...Very little for me, thank you very much. Existence here would be sweet, if the news were better; unfortunately it's a long time... Not a day goes by without a bereavement striking me in my personal affections or those of the people I love..."

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 36 - WAR 39/45 - KASSEL-MATTENBERG Prison Camp - Precious collection of 31 handwritten letters sent in 1943 and 1944 by a French prisoner from the Mattenberg prison camp in Germany, Roger Nouailhac, to his wife and mother. Most of these letters are written on poor quality squared paper, or on letter cards. A very moving read, in which the prisoner gives numerous details of his daily life as a prisoner, his occupations (compulsory labor...), freely shares his state of mind and shows concern for the fate of his family back in France... a very beautiful and rare set.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 37 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Letter on the letterhead of Marshal Pétain's General Staff, signed by General Vauthier, addressed to André Chaumeix. Enclosed is the typescript of an article published in the "doit-on le dire?" section of the magazine "Candide", 3 pages. Enclosed is the article published in "Candide" (cut out).

Estim. 50 - 60 EUR

Lot 38 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Political manuscript for an article published in "la Revue des Deux Mondes" in 1941, entitled "L'Allemagne et le Monde anglo-saxon". 9 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 39 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Political manuscript for an article published in "la Revue des Deux Mondes" in 1942, entitled "Dans les Balkans" ("In the Balkans"). 6 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 40 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Political manuscript for an article published in "la Revue des Deux Mondes" in 1943, entitled "La guerre d'Orient." 8 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 41 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Political manuscript for an article published in "la Revue des Deux Mondes" on March 15, 1941, entitled "De la mer egée à l'océan indien". 6 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 42 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Manuscript for an article published in "Candide" November 1939, entitled "L'Etat incomplet et la guerre totale". André Chaumeix was the editor of the "doit-on le dire?" column in this famous collaborationist magazine. 2 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections .

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 43 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Manuscript for an article published in "Candide" in 1939 entitled "Ressources de la France". André Chaumeix wrote the "doit-on le dire?" column for this famous collaborationist magazine. 3 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 44 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Manuscript for an article published in "Candide" on September 13, 1939, entitled "Cabinet de guerre". André Chaumeix wrote the "doit-on le dire?" column for this famous collaborationist magazine. 3 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. Attached is the article published in "Candide" (cut out).

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 45 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Manuscript for an article published in "Candide" in September 1939, entitled "Le prestige intellectuel". André Chaumeix wrote the "doit-on le dire?" column for this famous collaborationist magazine. 3 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. Attached is a typescript corrected by Chaumeix of another article published in 1939: "le Vieux monde et le nouveau".

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 46 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Manuscript for an article published in "Candide" on January 10, 1940, entitled "Remaniements ministériels". André Chaumeix wrote the "doit-on le dire?" column for this famous collaborationist magazine. 3 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. Attached is a typescript of the article and the article published in "Candide" (cut out).

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 47 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Manuscript for an article published in "Candide" on October 18, 1939, entitled "Les mystères des évacuations." André Chaumeix ran the "doit-on le dire?" column in this famous collaborationist magazine. 3 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. Attached is the article published in "Candide" (clipped).

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 48 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Manuscript for an article published in "Candide" on November 22, 1939, entitled "La fortune de la France". André Chaumeix wrote the "doit-on le dire?" column for this famous collaborationist magazine. 3 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. Attached is a typescript of the article and the article published in "Candide" (cut out).

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 49 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Manuscript for an article published in "Candide" on September 27, 1939, entitled "D'une guerre à l'autre". André Chaumeix wrote the "doit-on le dire?" column for this famous collaborationist magazine. 3 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. Attached is the article published in "Candide" (cut out).

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 50 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Manuscript for an article published in "Candide" on December 6, 1939, entitled "Leçon de chose". André Chaumeix wrote the "doit-on le dire?" column for this famous collaborationist magazine. 3 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. Attached is a typescript of the article and the article published in "Candide" (cut out).

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 51 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Manuscript for an article published in "Candide" on November 8, 1939, entitled "Les illusions perdues" ("Lost illusions"). André Chaumeix wrote the "doit-on le dire?" column for this famous collaborationist magazine. 3 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. Attached is the article published in "Candide" (cut out).

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 52 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - Jeau CHIAPPE, former Prefect of Police of Paris, collaborationist: 2 LAS including a beautiful letter dated February 25, 1940 in support of "L'Œuvre du tricot du soldat". 4 pp. in-8.

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 53 - WAR 39/45 - REQUIN general, commander of the 4th Army in 1939: A LAS and a L. signed in 1936 about the monument dedicated to Marshal Joffre.

Estim. 50 - 60 EUR

Lot 54 - HAUTE-GARONNE - Commune d'AULON, arrondissement de saint-Gaudens, canton d'Aurignac: Very important collection of handwritten (mainly) and printed documents concerning this commune, from the early 17th to the 19th century: official statistics, parish registers, ordinances, militia, deliberations, investigations, various lawsuits (affaire du Clocher, etc.), receipts, patents, taxes, inventories (including that of the Seigneurerie d'Aulon), documents from the Revolutionary period, letters and documents from noble and bourgeois families....), receipts, patents, taxes, inventories (including that of the Seigneurerie d'Aulon), documents from the Revolutionary period, letters and documents from the town's noble and bourgeois families, etc... All these documents were collected at the end of the 19th century by a scholar whose numerous notes, erudite studies, etc. can be found in this folder. A most interesting set of several hundred pages. Enclosed is the Monographie d'Aulon published in 1904, 1 vol. in-8 paperback.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 55 - HUNGARY - KEMENY (Wolgang): Signed manuscript copy of a decree published in 1783 With qqq corrections. Text in Latin. One folio. Signed. We enclose another document dated 1783, apparently written in Hungarian.

Estim. 100 - 120 EUR

Lot 56 - LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN: LAS from Henri de La Rochejaquelein (1805-1867) , politician, Peer of France, son of Mme Louis de La Rochejaquelin, nephew of the famous Vendée leader Henri de La Rochejaquelin. Letter dated July 25, 1864, addressed to M. Levert. 2 pages in-12.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 57 - LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN: LAS de Henri de La Rochejaquelein (1805-1867) , politician, Peer of France, son of Mme Louis de La Rochejaquelin, nephew of the famous Vendée leader Henri de La Rochejaquelin. Important collection of letters addressed to his architect concerning the house the Marquis had built at Le PECQ (Yvelines). 1864. 17 LAS and one handwritten plan.

Estim. 120 - 150 EUR

Lot 58 - LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN: LAS of Henri de La Rochejaquelein (1805-1867) , politician, Peer of France, son of Mme Louis de La Rochejaquelin, nephew of the famous Vendée chief Henri de La Rochejaquelin. LAS to Baron Haussmann. One page in-12, envelope with armorial seal preserved. No date. Letter requesting protection for the son of one of his friends, M. de La Houssaye...

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 59 - LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN: LAS from Henri de La Rochejaquelein (1805-1867) , politician, Peer of France, son of Mme Louis de La Rochejaquelin, nephew of the famous Vendéen leader Henri de La Rochejaquelin. LAS dated November 1857, 2 pages in-4 + envelope: Beautiful letter of recommendation for a Kersabiec, descendant of a famous Vendéen. Two other LAS dated 1847 and 1948, addressed to "mon cher Maître"...

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 60 - LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN: LAS of Henri de La Rochejaquelein (1805-1867) , politician, Peer of France, son of Mme Louis de La Rochejaquelin, nephew of the famous Vendéen leader Henri de La Rochejaquelin. Reunion of 4 LAS, various addressees. 5 pages in-8. Attached is a LAS from his son, dated Versailles 1873.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 61 - Lady Jane Churchill (1826-1900): LAS of 3 pages in-12 on paper with her cipher.

Estim. 50 - 60 EUR

Lot 62 - LEANDRE (Charles) caricaturist: LAS of 2 pages in-12 to a lady about the Rpo of the Belgians at the time of the 14/18 war: in bows before Albert Ier "...I had never bowed before a king...having on the contrary spent part of my existence disfiguring the august figures on the front pages of satirical newspapers...".

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 63 - LOUCHEUR Louis (1872-1931) French industrialist and minister: LAS addressed to Winston CHURCHILL, dated August 4, 1922. 2 pages in-8: "...I am sending you Marcel Ray who is going to attend the meeting of the Prime Ministers in London...won't you also be coming to Paris soon?...".

Estim. 100 - 120 EUR

Lot 64 - LUMBROSO Albert (1872-1942): Important LAS addressed to a colleague, dated May 21, 1906, in which he seeks to give his definition of what a "Modern Sovereign" should be... 8 pages in-12 with erasures, on the letterhead of Revue Napoléonienne.

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 65 - MAINTENON (Madame de) Widow of the poet Scarron in 1660, then undeclared wife of Louis XIV in 1683. Autograph letter initialled twice, addressed to the bishop of Chartres (Des Monstiers de Mérinville) in Saint Cyr, May 2, 1713. 1 1/2 pages in-4 and address. News from Saint-Cyr - Announcements of the peace. The sisters would like to postpone the visit to the bishop until July, so that their accounts will be ready. mme de Maintenon "...loves tenderly" Bouju's sister. The peace (of Utrecht, signed April 11) will be published in Paris on Monday (May 8). "...on chantera le Te deum jeudy et on fera le feu de joye, la mienne n'est pas complette depuis que l'empereur a rappelé son ambassadeur et déclaré qu'il veut faire la guerre. Most of the good testes believe that it cannot last". The King is in perfect health, Mme de Maintenon is "...doing well since the weather is fine...". a beautiful and precious letter.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 66 - MANUSCRIT on parchment dated 1765, to be identified.

Estim. 50 - 60 EUR

Lot 67 - MANUSCRIT: Morale. In-4 contemporary green vellum (binding worn, head cap torn off). Manuscript of 446 pages dated May 1776, written in Latin: cours de Morale. Attached is a second manuscript in 1 vol. in-4 contemporary half calf: Histoire Universelle, tome 2. 317 pages. Ends in 1838.

Estim. 100 - 120 EUR

Lot 68 - MARNE - Ville de GOURNAY - Manuscript on parchment, 13 x 30 cm, dated June 4, 1470, concerning a house in Gournay.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 69 - MILITARIA - LA ROCQUE (Family de): Rare collection of original documents from the family of Jean de La Rocque: Mail from the "Poilu du 37" addressed to the Comtesse de La Rocque; Letters addressed to Lieutenant de La Rocques; Schoolboy's notebook containing handwritten notes concerning Algeria and the arrival of an officer of the family in Sidi Bel Abbès in 1936; Important file belonging to Lieutenant de La Rocque, then Lieutenant in the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment, concerning Morocco: Marrakech, Ouarzazate: Summary of events that affected the state of mind during the 1st quarter. 1942. Numerous documents concerning the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in North Africa in the years 1940-1941. Important set of documents concerning the 1914/1918 war, including unique documents (handwritten) relating military events of the battalion of the 37th infantry regiment, handwritten reports addressed to Captain de La Rocque (1914); secret orders; combat orders; reports of various attacks; instructions to officers; liaison bulletins; evening reports; combat directives; various maps including German defenses, various positions.A rather exceptional collection of documents.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 70 - MUSIC - Claude CHAUVEL: A collection of manuscripts, heavily crossed out and corrected, concerning the writer and above all music critic Eduard Hanslick. Bibliography; chronology; various texts, including translations of Hanslick's articles on Clara Schumann, Brahms Triustan and Yseult.

Estim. 120 - 150 EUR

Lot 71 - OHNET Georges, man of letters (1848-1918). La Guerre et les mœurs. Complete signed manuscript, with corrections. 3 in-8 pages in which the author of "Le Maître des Forges" worries about the fate of theater, shows and spectators after the war.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 72 - ORNANO Philippe Antoine, Comte d'Ornano, Maréchal de France (1784-1863), Gouverneur des Invalides: Pièce signée à en tête de l'Hôtel des Invalides, 1853. One page in-12.

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 73 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Baron Général DUNESME: LAS from the Mayor of Butte Montmartre dated 1862, in which he certifies the accuracy of the heroic words of the brave General Dunesme at the time of his execution on August 30, 1813 in Bohemia: "A Dunesme dies and does not surrender"... A fine historical document.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 74 - PREMIER EMPIRE - CHARLET (Nicolas Toussaint) 1792-1845- Painter, he put his art at the service of the Napoleonic legend. LAS to his "dear Roger" (a Belgian doctor). S.l.n.d. (June 18, 1831). 2 pp. in-4 in very tight handwriting. He expresses his bitterness about France after the fall of the Empire... A very beautiful letter nostalgic for the glorious days of the First Empire! Valerio's portrait of Charlet is included.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 75 - PREMIER EMPIRE - FAIN (Baron) Secretary to Louis-Philippe: LAS to the head of the Maison du Roi, dated August 4, 1836. Astonishing letter of complaint about a glorious name missing from the Arc-de-Triomphe: that of Lieutenant-General Ômoran, commander of one of the Northern Divisions. One page in-4.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 76 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Frédéric MASSON (1847-1923) historian: 15 LAS to a colleague stamped from 1894 to 1901. Very interesting correspondence on Napoleon I and the First Empire. 34 pages in-12.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 77 - FIRST EMPIRE - Goswin Joseph Augustin, baron de Stassart (1780-1854) who was Intendant to Napoleon I: Beautiful LAS to Baron FAIN about his Mémoires sur 1814. One page in-4.

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 78 - FIRST EMPIRE - Jean-François-Xavier LARRIU (1772-1849) General during the Revolution and the Empire, who was, among other things, Colonel d'Etat-Major at Pau: Important collection of documents tracing the service of this "Brave" in the service of the Army during Napoleon's campaigns: file on his family origins, various orders, letters from his superiors, replies to his requests, pensions, service records, etc....Jean-François Xavier Larriu, maréchal de camp (Artiguelouve, 1772 - Pau, 1850). As a young officer, he took part in the Italian campaign, was caught up in the capitulation of Bailen in 1808, and served in the French campaign under Augereau. Appointed maréchal de camp by Napoleon in May 1815, he was demoted by the Restoration and retired in 1821. In 1830, he was reappointed maître de camp, retiring in 1834. It was General Larriu who presented the retired officers to the Duc de Montpensier at the Château de Pau. Such a gathering of original documents on an officer of the First Empire is rare, most of these "dossiers" having been dispersed according to the interest of the documents they contain... Here, everything has been preserved.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 79 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Justin CABASSOL (1800-1873), Chansonnier: Handwritten piece titled: "Plaisanterie de Napoléon. Anecdote Impériale". One folio page. Rare manuscript of a song written by Justin Cabassol, a chansonnier who graced the society of the Caveau moderne, in Paris, during the reign of Louis-Philippe.

Estim. 120 - 150 EUR

Lot 80 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Louis MADELIN (1871-1956), Historian: Autograph manuscript, heavily crossed out and corrected, for an article to be published in the Revue des Deux Mondes. 34 pages in-4. Important and interesting text on Louis XVI, the French Revolution, the Terror, the Consulate and the early Empire.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 81 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Madame Marco de SAINT-HILAIRE (1793-1887): Reunion of 4 LAS addressed to "Mr. le Président" about a dispute between her and the Odéon theater concerning a play by her husband that she is to have performed there. 11 pages in-4.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 82 - PREMIER EMPIRE - MANUSCRIT - IMPERATRICE JOSEPHINE - Historical memories of Madame RIBLE, Madame Bonaparte's first chambermaid. 1793-1804. Contemporary soft leather notebook in-8. 132 pages. Souvenirs collected by her grandson Commandant E. Belleville and arranged by D. Sutter. This manuscript, which has remained completely unpublished, contains intimate details of the life of José^phine de Beauharanis, wife of Emperor Napoleon I, of the utmost interest in this "truly extraordinary" existence. Madame Rible's notes, preserved in the family, shed new light on the life of "the famous woman who saw her first husband, Viscount Alexandre de Beauharnais, die on the scaffold, and who learned at Malmaison of the fall of her second husband, the great Emperor Napoleon".It includes previously unknown circumstances surrounding the arrest of the Viscountess de Beauharnais, as well as an account of intimate events that took place at Fontainebleau when Madame Rible and her husband were appointed to oversee the imperial residence. Madame Rible's recollections also provide information that corrects or contradicts many of the assertions made in various memoirs on the imperial family, such as those by Mlle Avrillon. At the end of the volume we find the inventory of objects belonging to Empress Josephine at the time of her divorce, a "rare and precious document which has never been published and which offers a most curious retrospective interest"... This precious manuscript was intended for publication, but we have found no trace of an edition. It is therefore completely unpublished and of the greatest historical interest.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 83 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Marco de SAINT-HILAIRE (1793-1887) French literary figure, page to Napoleon I, author of numerous memoirss on the First Empire: Reunion of 5 LAS addressed to Mr. Schayé, avoué, including a very interesting 4-page letter concerning a case against the Odéon theater. Set of 10 pages in-8

Estim. 120 - 150 EUR

Lot 84 - PREMIER EMPIRE - MERY Joseph (1798-1865) Journalist, novelist and poet, friend of Gérard de Nerval: Autograph signed. One page in-4: Poem from "Napoléon en Egypte", 7th canto: "Kléber au Thabor". A fine piece characteristic of Joseph Méry's grandioquent and epic style.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 85 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Paul LACROIX (le Bibliophile Jacob): Amazing LAS dated 1857 addressed to the "Son of the Commander of the Inconstant who brought the Emperor from Elba", Chautard. "...you have the sacred Napoleonic fire, and this fire, nurtured by the noblest patriotism, animates everything you write...". Chautard was the author of a warm-hearted work on the Emperor.

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 86 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Théophile GAUTIER fils: Interesting letter in which the son of the famous writer requests a copy of his father's book "Aux mânes de l'Empereur" for Viscount de Spoelberk. One page in-12.

Estim. 30 - 40 EUR

Lot 87 - PREMIER EMPIRE - TURREL: Manuscript titled "Le vieux soldat de l'île d'Elbe" and dated 1836: rare manuscript of this song written for the Caveau in Paris in 1836. 4 pages in-8 with erasures and corrections.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 88 - REVOLUTION Française - Abbé SICARD (1742-1822) French clergyman dedicated to the education of the deaf and dumb: Autograph signed bill dated October 29, 1792. Abbé Sicard's gratitude to his rescuers during the September massacres. Rare.

Estim. 120 - 150 EUR

Lot 89 - REVOLUTION Française - Abbé SICARD (1742-1822) French clergyman dedicated to the education of the deaf and dumb: LAS dated Paris February 12, 1812 addressed to M. Cléau. 3 pages in-12. Beautiful letter in which he speaks of Notre Dame, and of the duty to go and thank God publicly for his healing...

Estim. 120 - 150 EUR

Lot 90 - REVOLUTION Française - Alexandre LANFANT, 1726-1792) Jesuit, preacher, confessor to Louis XVI, assassinated in the Abbaye prison during the September massacres on September 3, 1792. LAS to Princess Sophie de Hohenlohe. Paris, July 20, 1787. 3 pages in-4. Lovely letter: "Reflection then made me perceive in the manner in which you were kind enough to bid me farewell, an express order not to renew this sad ceremony. I thought, Princess, that I must comply with your wishes at the expense of my own...I like to hope...that our capital does not lose you without hope of return...". Lanfant's letters are rare...

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 91 - REVOLUTION Française - Baron DESMOUSSEAUX, politician, one of the survivors of the September 1792 massacres. 1/Statement of the services of M. le Baron Desmousseaux, last Prefect of the Escaut and one of the commanders of the Legion of Honor. One handwritten page in-4; 2/Two LAS addressed to PEUCHET, secretary of the Conseil de Commerce.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 92 - REVOLUTION Française - Comte de BLANGY: Beautiful LAS dated April 1, 1818. One page in-4, armorial wax seal. Letter concerning the adopted daughter of Louis XVI's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antoine de Lessart, who fell victim to the massacres of September 1792. He asks his correspondent to come to the aid of this young lady, in need since these sad events. We enclose a second LAS from the same source: another request for help for an unfortunate member of his entourage. one page in-4, May 4, 1826.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 93 - REVOLUTION Française - Jourgnac de SAINT-MEARD, one of the survivors of the Abbey massacre of September 4, 1792: LAS dated July 8, 1821. Curious letter in which he gives medical advice to a mother whose son told him that the account in his memoirs was false! The man who narrowly escaped the massacres at the Abbaye and recounted his ordeal in a book, "L'Agonie de 38 heure"... he was not one to hold a grudge.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Lot 94 - REVOLUTION Française - PACHE Jean-Nicolas (1746-1823) Mayor of Paris, Minister of War: LAS dated Paris October 9, 1792: letter of appointment for an artillery officer. One page in-4.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

Lot 95 - REVOLUTION Française - SOMBREUIL (Charles-François VIROT, Marquis de) 1720 - guillotined June 17, 1794. General, Governor of the Invalides. LAS "Aux Invalides" April 3, 1788. One page in-4. Letter to Monsieur Savientir, Captain at Brive: "As I have had you established in your rank on the registers of the Hôtel, and as I have at the same time sent my proposal to the Minister so that he may grant you the pension, I have the honor of sending you herewith the titles of your services...".

Estim. 100 - 120 EUR

Lot 96 - RICHEPIN Jean (1841-1926), writer: LAS dated Saturday, February 24, 1906, addressed to Librairie Delagarve. One page in-4, about book shipments. Stamp of Librairie Delagrave.

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 97 - SERBIA - Nathalie Queen of Serbia: 2 LAS dated January 3, 1922 and n.d. addressed to a friend. 6 pages in-12. Nice friendly letter also giving some news, but mostly about a charity. She sends her correspondent various offerings for her school, as well as fabrics, which she instructs her to make into clothes.... Born in 1859, daughter of Russian colonel Kechko and Romanian princess Pulchérie Stourdza, she married Prince Milan Obrénovitch IV of Serbia in 1875. Alexander I was born of this marriage. When Milan had her marriage dissolved, Queen Natalie devoted herself to charitable works.

Estim. 100 - 120 EUR

Lot 98 - SUCHET Duc d'ALBUFERA: LAS dated 1850. One page in-8. Rare letter from the son of Marshal Suchet, born in 1813 and Godson of Napoleon I...

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

Lot 99 - Tancrède MARTEL (1854-1928) writer, master of the historical novel: 4-page folio manuscript: "Les Cendres de l'Aiglon". Beautiful text on the "King of Rome, son of Napoleon and Marie-Louise of Austria.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 100 - WEYGAND General: Nice LAS dated April 21, 1938 addressed to BENOIST-MECHIN, about the second volume of his "History of the German Army": "...Your account of Hitler's bloody day is dramatic. Your history of the German army is a landmark work which will be consulted by all those who wish to understand the evolution of Germany since the war...". An interesting letter, just a few months before the outbreak of the Second World War...

Estim. 50 - 70 EUR

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Lot 19 - Anne-Alexandre de L'Hôpital, marquis de Sainte-Mesme, lieutenant general of the king's armies: Handwritten receipt dated 1679, signed by the marquis, but also by Merville Minot, abbot of Saint Laumer, Blois. And other signatures. Two folio pages.

Lot 20 - Auguste ROMIEU (1800-1885), Vaudevillist and Minsiter of Fine Arts under Napoleon III: LAS of May 2, 1852, announcing the ministerial subscription of 100 copies to the "Curious book entitled Mémoires sur l'enfance et la jeunesse de Napoléon"...1 1/4 page in-8.

Lot 26 - BLOIS - A collection of handwritten letters and documents sent to officials in Blois in the 19th century. Including rare frankings.

Lot 28 - CARTON de WIART (1869-1951) Belgian sociologist, Minister of Justice during the Great War: 2 LAS addressed to Fernand Hauser, dated November 26 and December 24, 1914. 2 pages in-8 on Ministry of Justice letterhead;

Lot 29 - DURAND-BREYER, naval painter: LAS addressed to General Baron Gourgaud. Dated July 3, 1843. 2 pages in-12. Beautiful letter in which he expresses his admiration for Emperor Napoleon I's companions in exile. Another LAS by the same author is attached. One page in-8.

Lot 30 - ESPARBES (Georges) Littérateur et journaliste: Réunion de 3 LAS adressées à un ami, datées 1903 et 1936, dont une à en-tête de la Conszrvation du Palais de Fontainebleau. 5 pages in-8.

Lot 38 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Political manuscript for an article published in "la Revue des Deux Mondes" in 1941, entitled "L'Allemagne et le Monde anglo-saxon". 9 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections.

Lot 39 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Political manuscript for an article published in "la Revue des Deux Mondes" in 1942, entitled "Dans les Balkans" ("In the Balkans"). 6 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections.

Lot 40 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Political manuscript for an article published in "la Revue des Deux Mondes" in 1943, entitled "La guerre d'Orient." 8 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections.

Lot 41 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - André CHAUMEIX (1874-1955) Journalist and writer: Political manuscript for an article published in "la Revue des Deux Mondes" on March 15, 1941, entitled "De la mer egée à l'océan indien". 6 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections.

Lot 52 - WAR 39/45 - COLLABORATION - Jeau CHIAPPE, former Prefect of Police of Paris, collaborationist: 2 LAS including a beautiful letter dated February 25, 1940 in support of "L'Œuvre du tricot du soldat". 4 pp. in-8.

Lot 53 - WAR 39/45 - REQUIN general, commander of the 4th Army in 1939: A LAS and a L. signed in 1936 about the monument dedicated to Marshal Joffre.

Lot 55 - HUNGARY - KEMENY (Wolgang): Signed manuscript copy of a decree published in 1783 With qqq corrections. Text in Latin. One folio. Signed. We enclose another document dated 1783, apparently written in Hungarian.

Lot 56 - LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN: LAS from Henri de La Rochejaquelein (1805-1867) , politician, Peer of France, son of Mme Louis de La Rochejaquelin, nephew of the famous Vendée leader Henri de La Rochejaquelin. Letter dated July 25, 1864, addressed to M. Levert. 2 pages in-12.

Lot 61 - Lady Jane Churchill (1826-1900): LAS of 3 pages in-12 on paper with her cipher.

Lot 63 - LOUCHEUR Louis (1872-1931) French industrialist and minister: LAS addressed to Winston CHURCHILL, dated August 4, 1922. 2 pages in-8: "...I am sending you Marcel Ray who is going to attend the meeting of the Prime Ministers in London...won't you also be coming to Paris soon?...".

Lot 64 - LUMBROSO Albert (1872-1942): Important LAS addressed to a colleague, dated May 21, 1906, in which he seeks to give his definition of what a "Modern Sovereign" should be... 8 pages in-12 with erasures, on the letterhead of Revue Napoléonienne.

Lot 66 - MANUSCRIT on parchment dated 1765, to be identified.

Lot 67 - MANUSCRIT: Morale. In-4 contemporary green vellum (binding worn, head cap torn off). Manuscript of 446 pages dated May 1776, written in Latin: cours de Morale. Attached is a second manuscript in 1 vol. in-4 contemporary half calf: Histoire Universelle, tome 2. 317 pages. Ends in 1838.

Lot 68 - MARNE - Ville de GOURNAY - Manuscript on parchment, 13 x 30 cm, dated June 4, 1470, concerning a house in Gournay.

Lot 70 - MUSIC - Claude CHAUVEL: A collection of manuscripts, heavily crossed out and corrected, concerning the writer and above all music critic Eduard Hanslick. Bibliography; chronology; various texts, including translations of Hanslick's articles on Clara Schumann, Brahms Triustan and Yseult.

Lot 71 - OHNET Georges, man of letters (1848-1918). La Guerre et les mœurs. Complete signed manuscript, with corrections. 3 in-8 pages in which the author of "Le Maître des Forges" worries about the fate of theater, shows and spectators after the war.

Lot 72 - ORNANO Philippe Antoine, Comte d'Ornano, Maréchal de France (1784-1863), Gouverneur des Invalides: Pièce signée à en tête de l'Hôtel des Invalides, 1853. One page in-12.

Lot 76 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Frédéric MASSON (1847-1923) historian: 15 LAS to a colleague stamped from 1894 to 1901. Very interesting correspondence on Napoleon I and the First Empire. 34 pages in-12.

Lot 77 - FIRST EMPIRE - Goswin Joseph Augustin, baron de Stassart (1780-1854) who was Intendant to Napoleon I: Beautiful LAS to Baron FAIN about his Mémoires sur 1814. One page in-4.

Lot 81 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Madame Marco de SAINT-HILAIRE (1793-1887): Reunion of 4 LAS addressed to "Mr. le Président" about a dispute between her and the Odéon theater concerning a play by her husband that she is to have performed there. 11 pages in-4.

Lot 84 - PREMIER EMPIRE - MERY Joseph (1798-1865) Journalist, novelist and poet, friend of Gérard de Nerval: Autograph signed. One page in-4: Poem from "Napoléon en Egypte", 7th canto: "Kléber au Thabor". A fine piece characteristic of Joseph Méry's grandioquent and epic style.

Lot 86 - PREMIER EMPIRE - Théophile GAUTIER fils: Interesting letter in which the son of the famous writer requests a copy of his father's book "Aux mânes de l'Empereur" for Viscount de Spoelberk. One page in-12.

Lot 87 - PREMIER EMPIRE - TURREL: Manuscript titled "Le vieux soldat de l'île d'Elbe" and dated 1836: rare manuscript of this song written for the Caveau in Paris in 1836. 4 pages in-8 with erasures and corrections.

Lot 88 - REVOLUTION Française - Abbé SICARD (1742-1822) French clergyman dedicated to the education of the deaf and dumb: Autograph signed bill dated October 29, 1792. Abbé Sicard's gratitude to his rescuers during the September massacres. Rare.

Lot 94 - REVOLUTION Française - PACHE Jean-Nicolas (1746-1823) Mayor of Paris, Minister of War: LAS dated Paris October 9, 1792: letter of appointment for an artillery officer. One page in-4.

Lot 96 - RICHEPIN Jean (1841-1926), writer: LAS dated Saturday, February 24, 1906, addressed to Librairie Delagarve. One page in-4, about book shipments. Stamp of Librairie Delagrave.

Lot 98 - SUCHET Duc d'ALBUFERA: LAS dated 1850. One page in-8. Rare letter from the son of Marshal Suchet, born in 1813 and Godson of Napoleon I...

Lot 99 - Tancrède MARTEL (1854-1928) writer, master of the historical novel: 4-page folio manuscript: "Les Cendres de l'Aiglon". Beautiful text on the "King of Rome, son of Napoleon and Marie-Louise of Austria.