STAËL (Germaine Necker, baroness of). Autograph... - Lot 38 - Osenat

STAËL (Germaine Necker, baroness of). Autograph letter to Claude Hochet. Milan, "June 9" [1805]. 3 pp. in-8, address on the back, small cracks, small lack of paper due to the opening of two letters. The result of my trip here, my friend, is rather good without being, it is necessary, decisive, I wrote all the details to Mr. Suard [the academician Jean-Baptiste Suard, who was close to the Encyclopedists] by asking him to show you my letter. I only want to tell you in this one about two things that interest me deeply, your arrival and that of MAD[AME] RECAMIER. FIRST TELL THIS ANGELIQUE JULIETTE THAT I WILL RECEIVE HER AS A QUEEN and as... what is better today, and then tell Regn. [Michel Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély], to whom you will tell all the details of my affair in Milan, that if he wants to do me a favor in this world, he must give me THE PLEASURE OF SEEING YOU IN COPPET. Tell him that in these words. I also beg you to tell Prosper [Prosper Brugière de BARANTE] that I am not answering him because I think he is on his way to Geneva where I will be in two weeks. HE IS A YOUNG MAN FROM WHOM I EXPECT A LOT AS FAR AS SPIRIT AND CHARACTER ARE CONCERNED. I HAVE SEEN HERE THE NEW PARIS, AND THE PUMP OF THE INSTALLATION OF THE VICE-ROI [PRINCE EUGENE DE BEAUHARNAIS, appointed viceroy of Italy by Napoleon I, and who had just been sworn in at Milan on the 7th of June], & the impression of what one sees is always much greater than that of all the accounts of the world. The eyes have much spirit. The curiosity that I have at present is to read about the Templars. Give me some details... THE EMP[EREUR], IT IS SAID, IS GOING THROUGH GENEVA, but not, I think, for two or three months, for the Russian minister is coming to Italy. Come quickly, however, for it is especially in his absence that leaves are easier. WHAT PLEASES ME AT LEAST IS THAT THE EMPEROR SAID A LOT THAT HE THOUGHT IT WAS VERY GOOD THAT I WAS BEING TAKEN CARE OF. Would my brother do it, he added, if I did not allow it. Farewell again, it will be a feast for me to see you again. A FRIEND OF MME DE STAËL AND OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COPPET GROUP, CLAUDE HOCHET (1772-1857) was a journalist and then a member of the Council of State, notably in the section of the Interior presided over by Michel Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély. He would occupy the general secretariat of the Council of State under the Restoration.