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BRIFAUT Charles (1781-1857) auteur dramatique...

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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 de France (August 10, 1813)... Recommendations of the Marquis of Malateste to Baron Larché, former first president of the Royal Court of Dijon [1815]: "The king and the constitution : Here is the rallying cry of all good Frenchmen" Sending two odes of 3 stanzas, deploring their "revolting mediocrity", to greet the birth of a legitimate heir to the throne [this will be the Duke of BORDEAUX], with a "2nd version" in the case of a daughter, [September 1820]) He promises to transmit to Jacques DESTAIN, editor of the Gazette de France, any details on the forthcoming death of Louis XVIII (September 15, 1824) Appreciation of the notice that Claude-Nicolas AMANTON devoted to the Marquis de Courtivron, "He promises to continue his collaboration to a "conscientious newspaper" to defend "the cause of order, justice and morality" (July 3, 1835) Two long letters to his friend Félicité FRANTIN, regretting that he did not win a prize, and recommending to enter into the polemic against the detractors of monarchs: "get up then, take your slingshot, smash these Goliaths who are not so gigantic as they believe [], disperse this troop of Philistines and, master of the battlefield, raise a trophy of their torn flags and their broken swords to the memory of the true authors of our illustration and our greatness" (August 6, 1840 and January 6, 1842) He decides, after "mature reflections" not to read in public "two political tales, the Constitutional Round and the Legislative Gardener" Other letters to François ROGER (about a reading of one of his works), to the baron TROUVÉ (in favor of Miss Duchesnois), to an author of "charming productions" (1852), to the marquise Le Vayer, to the marquise de Roquefeuil (about the health of the countess de Calan), to M. de LA BOUISSE (declining to write an article about him in the Gazette de France), to Dr Moreau, etc. Le Pour et le Contre sur les femmes auteurs, dialogue (amusing, on the ridiculousness of marrying a woman of letters); Du religionisme moderne (3rd article of a series in the Echo, cut for printing); Des majorités politiques (the royalist comments on "the lie" of majorities, [after 1823])

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