Paul LACROIX, known as the Bibliophile Jacob (1806-1884). MANUSCRIPT autograph signed "Paul L. Jacob bibliophile", To my younger brother Édouard Lacroix, January 15, 1838,2 pages and a half in-8 filled with a very tight handwriting with erasures and corrections; and 22 L.A.S. addressed to him, 1829-1838 and s.d.
An amusing article on "philosophy no doubt", joking to his younger brother about his "prosaic career of the chicanes at the Palace", then sketching the portrait of the "singular and fantastic man of letters who found all the originalities that could shape him as a man of genius, this sieur de BALZAC, who two centuries have made much smaller", followed by the praise of his modern namesake, "whom we will not name the little one": "Will it not be to give back to Caesar what is Caesar's to proclaim the unquestionable superiority of the new Balzac over the old? »…
Beautiful set of letters addressed to Paul Lacroix by Alexandre Andryane, Pierre-Antoine Berryer, Jean-Alexandre Buchon, Athanase Coquerel, Émile Deschamps, Gustave Drouineau, Alexandre Du Sommerard, Adolphe-Simonis Empis, Eugénie Foa, Émile de Girardin, Marie de L'Épinay, Étienne-Léon de La Mothe-Langon, Victor de Mars, Jules Michelet, Georges Ozaneaux, Paulin Paris, Félix Pyat, Hippolyte Rolle, Baron Taylor (3) ...
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