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Auction 19 April 2022 ARISTOPHIL : French Academy - www.drouot.com

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Lot n° 2 

ACADEMIE FRANCAISE

6 P.S. by several academicians, 1814-1857; 2 pages in-fol. each (except one of one page). 6 emarged lists of fees and allowances. P.S. by 18 academicians, attendance fees for the class of French Language and Literature, February 1814: Garat, Bigot de...

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ACADÉMICIENS XVIIIe siècle.

4 L.A.S. and 3 L.S. Evariste de PARNY. François-Joseph de Beaupoil de SAINT-AULAIRE (1742). Joseph SÉGUY (to Crozat). Honoré-Armand duc de VILLARS (4, 1742-1752; plus printed version of his funeral oration, Aix 1770).

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ACADÉMICIENS A-E.

108 letters, pieces or manuscripts, mostly L.A.S. (some portraits and documents attached). Étienne AIGNAN (3, 1801-1818, to Fontanes, Pongerville), François ANDRIEUX (5, plus autogr. poem of 236 lines, Discours sur la perfectibilité de l'homme), Antoine-Vincent...

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ACADÉMICIENS A-C.

108 letters, pieces or manuscripts, most of them L.A.S. (some portraits and documents attached). Edmond ABOUT, Jean AICARD (7, 1880-1893, plus poem a.s. L'Ermite, and ms of his speech at La Cigale in 1903), Émile AUGIER (4, to Moreau-Chaslon, Mme de...

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ACADÉMICIENS F-P.

146 letters, pieces or manuscripts, most of them L.A.S. (some portraits and documents attached). Émile FAGUET, Alfred de FALLOUX (5, 1855-1879), Octave FEUILLET (2, 1854-1862), Octave GRÉARD (13, 1872-1899), Eugène GUILLAUME (to Beulé, 1862), Othenin...

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ACADÉMICIENS R-V.

96 letters, documents or manuscripts, most of them L.A.S. (some portraits and documents attached). Henry ROUJON (17, 1886-1914, and one from Edmond Haraucourt), Edmond ROUSSE (6, 1882-1899), Camille ROUSSET (7, 1865-1889), SAINT-RENÉ TAILLANDIER (13,...

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Lot n° 8 

ALARY Pierre-Joseph, abbé (1689-1770) prêtre, sous-précepteur de Louis XV [AF 1723, 22e f].

2 autograph MANUSCRITS, Reply to the reception speech of the abbé de Boismont, 1755; 4 pages large in-fol. on column, and 6 pages in-fol. sewn with a blue ribbon. 500 / 600 € Draft and cleanup of the speech given for the reception of the abbot of Boismont. Nicolas...

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Lot n° 9 

BACHET DE MÉZIRIAC Claude-Gaspard (1581-1638) poète, helléniste, traducteur, philologue et mathématicien ; membre fondateur de l'Académie française [AF 1634, 13e f].

L.A.S. "CGBachet", Lyon May 1, 1634; 1 page in-fol. Beautiful and rare letter to a scholar on Greek authors, one of the three known letters of Bachet. He sends him back his volume of the heroic Greek poets with a million thanks for the singular favor...

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Lot n° 10 

BACHET DE MÉZIRIAC Claude-Gaspard (1581-1638) poète, helléniste, traducteur, philologue et mathématicien ; membre fondateur de l'Académie française [AF 1634, 13e f].

MANUSCRIT largely autograph, De la Traduction, 1635; notebook of 21 pages small in-4 (ca. 19.8 x 14.3 cm), of which pages 1 to half of p. 8 and from the beginning of p. 17 to the end entirely autograph, the rest by a secretary with erasures, corrections...

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Lot n° 11 

BALLESDENS Jean (1595-1675) avocat et bibliophile [AF 1648, 8e f].

L.A.S. "Ballesdens", Hôtel Séguier March 9, to Dom Thierry RUINART; 1 page small in-fol. Very rare letter requesting the loan of a book. Thierry RUINART (1657-1709), a Maurist scholar, was a disciple of Mabillon, and the author of martyrologies. "My...

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Lot n° 12 

BANVILLE Théodore de (1823-1891).

Autograph poem signed "Théodore de Banville", Petites odes. L'Immortelle, 1888; 2 1/2 pages small in-4. Witty response to Daudet's novel, L'Immortel (1888), which violently attacked the Academy. This poem of 9 quatrains was collected in Sonnailles et...

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BARDIN Pierre (1590-1635) moraliste, philosophe et mathématicien, membre fondateur, et premier « immortel » à mourir, noyé en portant secours à un élève [AF 1634, 29e f].

L.A.S. "Bardin", Azay le Ferron in Touraine, September 12, 1634, to the bookseller Jean CAMUSAT?; 2 pages in-fol. Extremely rare letter about his main work Le Lycée. It was Jean Camusat who published Le Lycée du Sieur Bardin, where in several walks...

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BECQUE Henry (1837-1899) auteur dramatique.

L.A.S. "Henry Becque" to an academician; 3 pages in-8. Becque asks for a prize from the Academy. Becque sent to the Academy his last play in the competition of the Montyon foundation "for works useful to morals. I hoped that this competition was not...

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BIGNON Jean-Paul (1662-1743) oratorien, prédicateur, érudit, bibliothécaire du Roi [AF 1693, 20e f].

2 L.A.S. "L'abbé Bignon", Paris 1717-1729; 3 pages in-fol. and 2 pages in-4, one address with red wax seal of arms. February 23, 1717, to Monseigneur, reporting on his mission to the Duke of Orleans concerning Sieur SARRAZIN, "Medecin entretenu par le...

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BOISROBERT François LE METEL de (1592-1662) poète, abbé et aumônier du Roi ; favori de Richelieu, il lui suggéra l'idée de l'Académie Française qu'il organisa et dont il fut membre fondateur [AF 1634, 6e f].

2 L.A.S. "Boisrobert", 1632 and n.d.; 1 page in-fol. with address on verso, and 1 page in-4, address with red wax seals with arms on red silk lakes. Lyon 7 September in the evening 1632, to M. de RODES. On the defeat of Henri II de Montmorency before...

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BOISROBERT François LE METEL de (1592-1662) poète, abbé et aumônier du Roi ; favori de Richelieu, il lui suggéra l'idée de l'Académie Française qu'il organisa et dont il fut membre fondateur [AF 1634, 6e f].

autograph poem, To Monseigneur le Cardinal on the death of Alfonce Mancini his nephew. Sonnet, 1658; 1 page in-fol. Sonnet by the founder of the French Academy, dedicated to Cardinal MAZARIN. In January 1658, at the age of fourteen, Alphonse MANCINI,...

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Lot n° 18 

BOISROBERT François LE METEL de (1592-1662) poète, abbé et aumônier du Roi ; favori de Richelieu, il lui suggéra l'idée de l'Académie Française qu'il organisa et dont il fut membre fondateur [AF 1634, 6e f].

Autograph poem, A Monsieur Pelisson; 1 page in-4, address " Pour Monsieur Pelisson prez Mgr le procureur gnal " with red wax seals with arms on gray silk lakes. Beautiful letter in verse of three quatrains to his friend the historian and academician...

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Lot n° 19 

BOIVIN Jean, dit BOIVIN DE VILLENEUVE (1663-1726) érudit, helléniste, garde de la Bibliothèque du Roi [AF 1721, 21e f].

2 L.A.S. "Boivin D.V." and "Boivin", 1722-1724; 2 pages in-4 and 2 pages in-8. 19 May 1722, to abbé Joseph d'OLIVET, beautiful letter complimenting him on his book Huetiana, or Pensées diverses de M. HUET, which he praised "mesme dans l'Academie Françoise"...

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BOUFFLERS Stanislas, chevalier de (1738-1815) poète, il fut gouverneur du Sénégal [AF 1788, 9e f].

L.A., ca. 1795 ?, to Éléonore de SABRAN; 4 pages in-4 (portrait enclosed). Long and beautiful letter of emigration to the one who will become his wife. His departure was delayed by GRIMM, who caused him the greatest grief by informing him that she had...

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Lot n° 21 

BOUILHET Louis (1822-1869) poète, ami de Flaubert.

Autograph poem signed "L. Bouilhet", To Mr. Victor Hugo, Rouen, ca. 1840; 4 pages in-4 (some small cracks). A youthful poem in homage to Victor Hugo, refused by the Académie française. This long poem, written with all the enthusiasm of youth in the...

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BOURBON Nicolas (1574-1644) oratorien, poète latin, helléniste et érudit, professeur de grec au Collège de France [AF 1637, 29e f].

L.A.S. "N. Borbonius", late 1911 or early 1612, to Cardinal Jacques DU PERRON, Archbishop of Sens and Grand Chaplain of France; 1 page folio, address (slight browning on 2 edges); in Latin. Very rare letter in Latin (Raoul Bonnet had counted only two...

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BOZE Claude GROS de (1680-1753) numismate et archéologue, garde des médailles de la Bibliothèque du Roi [AF 1715, 34e f].

3 L.A.S. and one P.A.S. "De Boze" or "Gros De Boze", Paris 1715-1735 and n.d.; 5 1/2 pages various sizes, 2 addresses. September 9, 1715, to M. ROVIÈRE, treasurer of France, in Lyon. Account of the follow-up given to his orders with regard to the Chambre...

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BRIFAUT Charles (1781-1857) auteur dramatique et poète [AF 1826, 11e f].

22 L.A.S. "Brifaut" or "Charles Brifaut" (or "Le malade reconnaissant"), and 3 autograph MANUSCRITS, 1813-1852; 55 pages various sizes. Nice set. Warm congratulations to Pierre-François TISSOT on his nomination to the chair of Latin poetry at the Collège...

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BUSSY-RABUTIN Roger, comte de (1618-1693) militaire et écrivain, auteur de l'Histoire amoureuse des Gaules ; cousin de Mme de Sévigné [AF 1665, 20e f].

L.A. (minute), Chaseu December 8, 1685, to Count d'OLON, his cousin; 3 pages in-4 (small holes and cracks from ink corrosion). He tries to persuade his cousin to abjure Protestantism. After what the bishop of Autun (Gabriel de Roquette) "on behalf of...

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CHAPELAIN Jean (1595-1674) poète ; membre fondateur de l'Académie française, où il joua un rôle important, en rédigeant notamment ses statuts [AF 1634, 7e f].

L.A.S. "Chapelain", Paris July 17, 1647, to Mademoiselle de SCUDÉRY in Marseille; 3 pages in-4, address with small red wax seals on pink silk lakes (engraved portrait enclosed). On his heroic poem La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée, which Mlle de Scudéry...

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CHAPELAIN Jean (1595-1674) poète ; membre fondateur de l'Académie française, où il joua un rôle important, en rédigeant notamment ses statuts [AF 1634, 7e f].

L.A.S. "Chapelain", Paris March 2, 1660, to Pierre-Daniel HUET; 3 pages in-4. Very beautiful literary letter about an ode in Latin by Huet, Ad Ludovicum XIV, for the peace of the Pyrenees. He thanks Huet for his sending : " I had already seen the Ode...

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Lot n° 28 

CHAPELAIN Jean (1595-1674) poète ; membre fondateur de l'Académie française, où il joua un rôle important, en rédigeant notamment ses statuts [AF 1634, 7e f].

2 L.A.S. "Chapelain", Paris July-October 1663, to Johannes HEVELIUS; 2 pages in-4 each. Beautiful letters to the Polish astronomer. June 28, 1663. "Having conceived a very high esteem of you from the time that my intimate friend Monsieur GASSENDI of...

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CHARPENTIER François (1620-1702) littérateur et érudit, un des quatre membres fondateurs de l'Académie des Inscriptions [AF 1650, 18e f].

L.A.S. "Charpentier", "Wednesday at one o'clock in the morning" 1658, to Madeleine de SCUDÉRY; 3 pages in 4. Beautiful and rare letter with verses to Mademoiselle de Scudéry, on Xenophon's Cyropedia of which he has just published a translation. He received...

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CHARPENTIER François (1620-1702) littérateur et érudit, un des quatre membres fondateurs de l'Académie des Inscriptions [AF 1650, 18e f].

L.A.S. "Charpentier", July 17 1683, to a colleague Pierre-Daniel HUET ?; 5 pages in-4. About his book De l'excellence de la langue françoise. As he feared, the countryside and the solitude gave chagrined thoughts to his correspondent who comes back...

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Lot n° 31 

CLAUDEL Paul (1868-1955) [AF 1946, 13e f].

6 L.A.S. and 1 P.A.S. "P. Claudel", 1907-1936; 10 pages in-8 (several headings) and 1 page in-4 with tax stamp, 3 envelopes. Tientsin September 13, 1907, to André RUYTERS in Brussels: long advice on entering the Bank of Indo-China, and reservations of...

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Lot n° 32 

CLAUDEL Paul (1868-1955) [AF 1946, 13e f].

2 L.A.S. "P. Claudel", 1927-1932, to François MONOD; 2 oblong pages in-8 on the letterhead of the French Embassy in Japan with envelope, and 1 page in-8 on the letterhead of the Château de Brangues (small split). Amusing letter from Japan about his possible...

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CLAUDEL Paul (1868-1955) [AF 1946, 13e f].

Autograph MANUSCRIT, Thank you for the presentation of my academician's sword in Brussels, October 1946?; 3 pages in-fol. with some erasures and corrections. Thanks to the Belgian subscribers for his academician's sword. Claudel was elected on April...

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Lot n° 34 

CLAUDEL Paul (1868-1955) [AF 1946, 13e f].

Autograph MANUSCRIT, Remerciement à mes amis de Belgique, October 25, 1946; 7 pages and a quarter in-fol. with erasures and corrections. Speech delivered in Brussels on December 11, 1946 for the presentation of his academician's sword. The text was...

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CLAUDEL Paul (1868-1955) [AF 1946, 13e f].

autograph MANUSCRIT, and TAPUSCRIT with autograph corrections and additions (fragments) for his Discours de réception à l'Académie Française, December 1946; 1 page and a quarter in-fol. and 9 pages in-4 (slits). Claudel's reception speech at the Académie...

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Lot n° 36 

COCTEAU Jean (1889-1963) [AF 1955, 31e f].

L.A.S. "Jean C.", Palais-Royal December 20, 1955, to Henry de MONTHERLANT; 2 pages in-4 (crack in fold repaired). Cocteau, newly elected, wants Montherlant to be admitted to the Académie française. "I know these ostrich eggs on which one walks when...

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Lot n° 37 

COLARDEAU Charles-Pierre (1732-1776) poète et auteur dramatique [AF 1776, 21e f].

3 L.A.S. "Colardeau" and 2 L.A., Paris and Étiolles 1760-1776, to his uncle M. REGNARD, parish priest of Saint-Salomon, in Pithiviers; 9 pages in-4, 3 addresses with remnants of red or black wax seals (engraved portrait enclosed). Nice correspondence,...

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COLLETET Guillaume (1596-1659) avocat, poète et auteur dramatique, membre fondateur de l'Académie française [AF 1634, 23e f].

2 autograph MANUSCRITS and a P.A.; 1 page in-4, 1 page in-8 and 1 page in-12. Very rare meeting. On the returned seals. To Monseigneur le Chancelier. Madrigal, January 5, 1656, calligraphy poem (the signature is apocryphal) the day after Mathieu Molé's...

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CONRART Valentin (1603-1675) poète, philologue, conseiller du Roi, c'est chez lui que se réunissait le groupe de lettrés qui donna naissance à l'Académie Française, dont il fut membre fondateur et le premier Secrétaire perpétuel [AF 1634, 2e f].

2 autographed POEMS (signed by 3 fermesses), ca. 1650; half page in-8 and 1 page in-8 (engraved portrait attached). Charming epistles to the Perriquet sisters. Marie PERRIQUET (1624-1668), the youngest of the Perriquet sisters, a learned woman, was...

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Lot n° 40 

COPPÉE François (1842-1908) [AF 1884, 10e f].

MANUSCRIT autograph signed " François Coppée ", Intimités, 1868; title and 9 pages in-8, mounted on bluish ff., bound in one volume in-8 eggplant chagrin, large fillet framed in cold, title gilt on the upper board, inner frame with cold and gilt fillets...

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Lot n° 41 

COPPÉE François (1842-1908) [AF 1884, 10e f].

Autograph poem signed " François Coppée ", On the portrait of Victor Hugo, by Bonnat; 1 page in-4. Beautiful tribute to Victor HUGO, of 20 verses, inspired by the portrait executed in 1879 by Léon BONNAT Musée national du château de Versailles : "It...

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Lot n° 42 

[CORNEILLE Pierre].

MANUSCRIT, Vie de Pierre Corneille, late 17th or early 18th century; sewn booklet of 48 pages in-4, folioed 469-492 (portrait attached). This Vie de Pierre Corneille (f. 469-477) is followed by a Parallelle de Monsieur Corneille et de Mr Racine, thus...

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CORNEILLE Thomas (1625-1709) auteur dramatique [AF 1684, 14e f].

P.A.S. "Corneille", April 14, 1701; 1 oblong page in-8 (window mount); engraved portrait by Thomassin enclosed. Very rare report of a session of the Académie française. A slightly different version, written by Régnier-Desmarais, is published in Les...

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CUVILLIER-FLEURY Alfred-Auguste (1802-1887) précepteur du duc d'Aumale, publiciste, historien et critique [AF 1866, 35e f].

Autograph NOTES AND MANUSCRITS, 3 of which are signed; about 118 pages in various sizes on loose sheets and 300 pages in 6 notebooks or notebooks in 4 or in 8, moleskin covers (plus a few pages in another hand). Important file including numerous reading...

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CUVILLIER-FLEURY Alfred-Auguste (1802-1887) précepteur du duc d'Aumale, publiciste, historien et critique [AF 1866, 35e f].

Autograph manuscript, 1867; 69 pages in 4. Reception speech at the Académie Française. Cuvillier-Fleury draws a remarkable portrait of his predecessor DUPIN aîné (1783-1865), whose career as a magistrate and politician he traces. Cuvillier-Fleury was...

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Lot n° 46 

DACIER André (1651-1722) philologue, traducteur, bibliothécaire, il fut Secrétaire perpétuel [AF 1695, 28e f].

L.A.S. "Dacier", Paris June 8, 1715, to Monseigneur; 1 page in-4. "There are three months that the fear of taking my time badly and of bothering you prevents me from asking you for the same help that you did me the grace to grant me the last years" But...

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Lot n° 47 

DACIER Bon-Joseph (1742-1833) historien et philologue, conservateur de la Bibliothèque Nationale, membre de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (dont il fut Secrétaire perpétuel) et de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques [AF 1822,

14 letters, most of them L.A.S. "Dacier", and one P.S., Paris 1789-1829; 17 pages in-fol. and 12 pages in-4 or in-8, 6 on the letterhead of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres with vignette and 2 from the King's Library (portrait enclosed). Palais...

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Lot n° 48 

DANCHET Antoine (1671-1748) poète, auteur dramatique et librettiste [AF 1712, 5e f].

L.A.S. "Danchet", Paris August 26, 1732, to Monseigneur le cardinal de FLEURY; 2 pages in-4 (engraved portrait enclosed). The "Académie françoise" had to give a second time the prize for eloquence. He addresses to him the speech he gave at the public...

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Lot n° 49 

Alphonse daudet (1840-1897).

L.A.S. "Alph. Daudet", to a colleague; half page in-8. On Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU. Regrets not being able to send the requested study: "I hold the Confessions to be the most admirable "human testimony that has ever been uttered". I would have liked to...

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Lot n° 50 

DELACROIX Eugène (1798-1863) peintre.

L.A.S. "Eug Delacroix", March 15 1855, to Ernest LEGOUVÉ; 1 1/2 pages in-8 (slight fading). Congratulations on his election to the French Academy. He has just learned of Legouvé's election "in the middle of my studio from which I do not leave and occupied...

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