BROGLIE (Victor de). Correspondence of 16 letters... Lot 10

BROGLIE (Victor de). Correspondence of 16 letters to his half-brother the marquis d'Argenson, René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, archaeologist and politician. Broglie [in the Eure], Coppet [in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland], etc. [Directoire period]-1832 and n.d. He was the son of Prince Victor de Broglie, guillotined in 1794, and Sophie von Rosen-Kleinroop, who later remarried to Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson - who was aide-de-camp and prefect to Napoleon I, and later a deputy. Victor de Broglie (1785-1870), himself a diplomat under the Empire, was a member of the Chamber of Peers (1814-1848), several times minister, notably of Foreign Affairs (1832-1834 and 1835-1836), president of the Council (1835-1836), and then a deputy (1849-1851). In 1816 he married the daughter of Madame de Staël, Albertine. He left Souvenirs (Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1886, 4 volumes). The present correspondence concerns his life with his tutor Guillobé, his courses at the École centrale under the Empire, his translations of Greek (including a letter from his youth with a translation of the harangue of King Darius to his troops before the battle of Arbèles), a speech of Lord Brougham on the cultivation of grain, the marriage of the daughter of his correspondent, but also Georges de Lafayette, son of the general, or his own wife Albertine de Broglie, etc. Enclosed: a handwritten letter concerning the abjuration necessary for the marriage of Victor de Broglie with Albertine de Staël (1815) and a handwritten piece entitled "Fragment of a memorandum relating to the property of the de Rosen family in Alsace (lawsuit against the Estate). 1823 or 24" (about 30 ff. in-8).