AGOULT Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, comtesse... Lot n° 304

Set of 16 signed autograph letters addressed to Eugène Pelletan. 1853-1868; various formats. She thanks him for having spoken of her Goethe "in a very beautiful book"; "I have tried to shed new light on this Goethe so badly known in France that Madame de Staël admired and who admired him a lot in return"...; She begs him not to break up with Mr. de G.; She begs him not to break up with Mr. de G. Girardin] "and to abide by his advice"; She asks him "to suppress the idea of Testament applied to es Pensées. As I say in the foreword that the first edition was published in 1847 and that I have written several volumes since then, that could astonish the reader"...; She proposes to him "to hear next Thursday at three thirty very precise hours the reading of my Joan of Arc in five acts"...; "If your sins really weigh you down, Sir and friend, I offer you two opportunities to repair them; please have tea tomorrow evening with friends".I read, I devour your book and yesterday evening we only spoke about it with the warmest sympathy"; on Nélida: "Would you please take care of the Nélida report, you prevent my desires because I had obtained from Mr. Klaus, who is the author of the book, a copy of the book, a copy of the book, a copy of the book and a copy of the book. of G. that he would ask you for this little work, and I intended to beg you not to refuse it"...; on the events of 1848; "you scoff at ravishing celibate philosophy (the word will remain)"...; etc. Fonds Eugène PELLETAN Born in 1813 in Royan, Eugène Pelletan was an important political, literary and journalistic figure throughout the 19th century. Mounted in Paris in 1833, he was quite close to Georges Sand and even tutor to his son Maurice, and became a republican with Lamartine, beginning a political career as a deputy from 1863 to 1876, who saw him as Minister of Education in 1871 and then as a senator from 1876 until his death. The correspondence we present is a magnificent testimony to the liter