VIOLLET-LE-DUC Eugène (1814-1879) architecte Lot n° 44

9 L.A.S. and 1 P.A.S. "E. Viollet le Duc", 1847-1870, to Auguste PERRIN; 15 pages in-8, most of them with Ministry of the Interior letterhead. Direction des Beaux-arts or Paris Cathedral. Restoration works. Beautiful correspondence from the architect to his collaborator, an ornamental sculptor. May 15, 1847. Notice of the sending of a sculpture by Victor Pyanet, and drawings of gargoyles. "One also sends you heads for the fall of the mouldings of the gables"; he recommends to make these sculptures "simply and without too much effect"... January 2, 1848. He received Bishop Rudolph's stamps and sent him drawings. They will take care in Montauban of the sale of the memoirs for St Antoninus... January 25, about the payments from the city of Carcassonne. Concerning the capitals of the two windows to be repaired in the tower of the town hall of Saint-Antonin, he recommends a rich A capital and a simple B capital, sculpted on all four sides; "you do not need to worry about the bases or the columns. You will have the mouldings of the carvings made by the workers of Magné"... April 3rd. Precisions on the funds remaining available for 1848; it is necessary to finish the most urgent work, the buttresses, and to concentrate on what cannot be revised later: "The cabbages can still be installed. It is thus the hooks that must first be made or the gargoyles and heads if there are still some to be executed"... May 20th. He understands how expensive the indecision in their work is, but he cannot go against events. Music and spectacle "It is impossible that the new government will not take a side promptly on the affairs of the Historic Monumens and that we will not soon have orders to continue the work with the funds already allocated, or to suspend it entirely in 1849"... The Assembly will shortly be dealing with the 1849 budget... "As for Narbonne, the city, like all cities at the moment, must have barely enough funds to continue its work slowly"... February 3,