MANUSCRITS & AUTOGRAPHS - 19th century. Large lot of doc - Lot 347

MANUSCRITS & AUTOGRAPHS - 19th century. Large lot of documents: Period handwritten copy of the speech delivered by the administrator of the Manufacture nationale des Gobelins "to the artists-workers, November 6, 1871". 6 pp. in-4; L.A.S. from Girard to Comte, physicist (1818); LAURISTON. Gal. P.S. (1816); long L.A.S. sent from Hanoi in 1885; Giraud. Long L.A.S. 1813; long L.A.S. on Opéra-comique letterhead; SABATIER DE CASTRIES. 2 interesting L.A.S. including one to Count d'Antraigues in London. Attona and Ludwiglust, June 15, 1807 and October 1, 1811. 5 pp. large in-4; Edouard CADOL. L.A.S.; Anatole de LA FORGE. L.A.S.; C.L. MOLLRVAUT. L.A.S.; Camille DOUCET. L.A.S.; Anaïs SEGALAS. Autograph biography; CHASLES, Philarète. L.A.S. to a painter. 1870. 2 pp. in-8. Confession of bankruptcy and commentary on paintings; DELORT, Taxile, attributed to. M.A. entitled "Le Parti des domestiques". 2 pp. 1/4 in-folio; [REVUE DES DEUX MONDES]. Manuscript. S.l.n.d. 2 pp. 1/2 in-folio. "The Imperial Government has lavished large subsidies on creating or supporting competition to the Revue des Deux Mondes. These attempts failed. In doing so, they forgot that the Revue des Deux Mondes is the rallying point for all the country's intellectual superiorities and the Pole towards which all slightly justified ambitions turn. We forget that most of these superiorities and ambitions persist in a systematic hostility to the Empire [?] Que la Revue des deux Mondes est la forteresse du Libéralisme de bonne compagnie et l'organe accrédité des Princes de la Maison d'Orléans [...]"; Supplique de l'abbé de Mexias pour obtenir une pension (1834); BERGERAT, Emile. 6 L.A.S.; KAUFFMANN, à Philipon (L.A.S.); BOCAGE, Paul. (L.A.S. on two charcoals by Bonvin); Long L.S. addressed to M. d'Éon, in Tonnerre (1737, certainly the father of Chevalier d'Éon, mayor of Tonnerre); CAMILLE DE ROUGÉ (long L.A.S. written from the Tuileries château in 1824); UZANNE, Octave (lovely card: he sees only three ways out of life imprisonment: dreams, love and travel); BOUTON, Victor (L.A.S. from the Conciergerie in 1854); Augé to Escudier (long L.A.S.); BECHET, Joseph (long L.A.S. from Mont Saint-Michel prison, 1840); a file containing numerous manuscripts of songs signed by Octave Lacomme; PRISON DU BICÊTRE. P.S. 1811. 3 pp. folio. Interrogation of prisoner Claude Etienne Salignac La Mothe Fénelon, a 38-year-old "former military man" and former Chouan leader. He declares that he has been in this prison for ten years, after having spent time at Sainte-Pélagie. He describes the reasons for his incarceration, etc. Prisoner's autograph signature in fine; Chevalier de CHAZET. L.A.S.; ETC. Many other documents attached.