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LITERATURE XIXe. Set of 11 handwritten pieces. -...

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LITERATURE XIXe. Set of 11 handwritten pieces. - ZOLA (Emile). Billet a. s., 1 page in-12 dated Paris, August 9, 72, addressed to the bookseller Charpentier. - CHATEAUBRIAND. LAS, addressed to Monsieur de Juges, procureur du roi à Conflans, 2 pages in-8, dated Genève le 27 7bre, 1832, folds, tears. "Mon temps est fini, je m'en vais, Dieu m'appelle à lui." - SAINTE-BEUVE. LAS, 1 page in-8, dated 21 9bre, 1865. "Youth is ardent and generous, but it is, in general, too bristling with exclusions: let us try, as we grow older, that the exclusions fall away." -DESBORDES-VALMORE (Marceline). LAS, dated July 28, 49, 3 pages in-8, to a gentleman, about the novelist Jenny Bastide, wife of Camille Bodin, whose state of health is desperate. "If I had not arrived at the height of ruin, with what happiness I would give everything back! With what haste I would practice that divine principle spread in your beautiful book which stirs the best sentiments deep in the soul (...) The only consolation of dying: to have given!" - GONCOURT (Edmond). LAS, 1 1/2 pages in-8, dated December 31, 1856, addressed to Monsieur Brancas, asking him to entrust him with several letters from Sophie Arnould that he possesses, as he is preparing his biographical study. Following this, Jules de Goncourt has added in his own handwriting "Reçu de Monsieur Brancas une lettre de Sophie Arnould." - MISTRAL (Frédéric). LAS, 2 1/2 pages in-8, addressed to Lieutaud in Provençal, evoking Volonne and the Félibrige. - MONTALEMBERT (Comte de). LAS, addressed to Mme Sophie de Chambure in Dijon, dated Southampton July 17, 1843, 2 1/2 pages in-8, fold, address, with wax seal. "The long exile to which my wife's compromised health has condemned me [ he is in Madeira] (...) has naturally brought about a great upheaval in my habits, my occupations, and my relations. Above all, I am more and more a stranger to newspapers." - MAISTRE (Joseph, Comte de). LAS, dated Turin, February 2, 1818, 3 pages in-4. "I received with extreme pleasure your letter of 22 Xbre, and the copy of Voyage autour de ma chambre (...). I would like to see an edition of this pretty opuscule such as I desire, adorned with two neat prints. I would very much like, I confess, a second edition of the Considérations sur la France because of the impertinent liberties taken with me in the last one. " - LAMARTINE. LAS, to Madame Récamier, 3 pages in-12, dated Saint-Point, November 15, 1843, dry-stamped with his monogram. He thanks Madame Récamier for her kindness to his wife. "She also thought it would please you to send Monsieur de Chateaubriand in London the first sheet of a small journal I'm publishing in Mâcon (...) I'm completely absorbed in major historical works (...). M. Ballanche? Talk to him about me for sure, and so many others, talk to them if they are under oath. Briffaut especially." - BALLANCHE. LAS, addressed to a young lady, 1 page in-12, dated January 9, 1847. "Madame Récamier charges me to thank you for your lovely present which bears the sweet imprint of your thought for her." - DAUDET (Alphonse). A bill a. s., 4 lines, he invites Céard to dinner. Attached: FIESCHI (Joseph). LAS, dated Conciergerie (Paris) November 23, 1835 to Monsieur Bonet, médecin. 2 pages in-8, stamped Maison de Justice. Wounded in the attack he perpetrated against King Louis-Philippe and his family, in which 18 people perished, Fieschi writes to the doctor who treated him [with his spelling]: "My duty and my conscience call upon me to write you this letter to testify to my gratitude, and otherwise I will deserve the title of ingra come I unfortunately have. (...) All the concern you felt at the time of my illness, I regard as a duty that your honorable career imposes upon you, bound by a sacred oath (...) I died bravely, I did not fear death and I (should) accept death since I deserved it." Expert: Ségolène Beauchamp