LIBRARY OF THE IMPERIAL PRINCE MARIETTE Widow.... - Lot 386 - Osenat

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LIBRARY OF THE IMPERIAL PRINCE MARIETTE Widow.... - Lot 386 - Osenat
LIBRARY OF THE IMPERIAL PRINCE MARIETTE Widow. Letters from a farm girl. 1873. Manuscript of 32 leaves, bound in a vol. in-8 (212 x 140 mm), contemporary binding in violet silk velvet, silver chased crown fixed on the upper board. The manuscript contains the text of about ten letters addressed by the author to Francis Aubert, director of the Peuple Français, a newspaper loyal to Napoleon III. Three of these laments were published by the newspaper, according to the widow Mariette, the others were lost during the Commune. The letters evoke the siege of Paris, the defeat, the abdication of Napoleon III, the Rousseauist vision of the city and the countryside. One of them, very virulent, attacks Victor Hugo, genius of evil. The manuscript is dedicated and offered to the imperial Prince. My dearest desire, My Lord, was to offer it to Your August Father, but alas! God did not allow it and it is a letter of mourning which finishes it. A small pencil drawing of a peasant leaning against a pillar has been added at the end of the volume. Nice item, well preserved despite its fragility. Provenance: Former collection of Gérard Souham Exhibition: Musée Ernest Rupin, Napoléon III et le Second Empire, Brive, 12 May - 12 July 1973, n° 50.
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