DUPONT-WHITE, John-Theodore. The League in Beauvais. Paris, - Lot 209

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DUPONT-WHITE, John-Theodore. The League in Beauvais. Paris, - Lot 209
DUPONT-WHITE, John-Theodore. The League in Beauvais. Paris, Dumoulin, 1846. In-8° of cvj pp., 1 bl. f., 272 pp. Half calf, long spine decorated with two gilt boxes, gilt title (Binding of the period). Signed letter from the author " to Mr. Madame A Gréban [?], their affectionate brother. Mr. Dupont White". Enriched with 8 letters including 5 to him concerning his work, among which: ● Abel François VILLEMAIN (1790-1870), writer, academician, professor at the Sorbonne and at the Ecole normale supérieure, minister of Public Instruction from 1839 to 1845. Paris, November 27, 1846. Header of the Académie française (of which he was the perpetual secretary). He offers in his name the work to the Academy. ● Nicolas MARTIN, Count Martin du Nord (1790-1847), Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice and Cults. Paris, October 31 [1846]. Ministry letterhead. "I thank you for this dispatch, and I congratulate you on the useful use you have made of your leisure". ● Michel HEBERT (1799-1887), Garde des sceaux, Minister of Justice and Cults (he had just succeeded Martin). Paris, July 7, 1847. Ministry letterhead. "It is with satisfaction that I see the magistrates devoting their leisure time to the works of literature and looking for serious and useful relaxations in the memories of our history, in the antiquities of the cities they live in. You continue with honor these studious traditions [...] it is good that magistrates revive them, and thus unite by a fruitful alliance, to the fulfillment of their duties, this cult of science and letters that their predecessors never separated from them." ● Alfred-Auguste CUVILLIER-FLEURY (1802-1887), French journalist and literary critic, Secretary of the Commandemants of the Duc d'Aumale, whose tutor he had been. Palais-Royal, November 28, 1846. Header of the duke's secretariat. "The prince thanks you, Sir, for the thought you had of destining this interesting book to the Library of Chantilly, where no other could be better placed and where his Royal Highness will see it appear with pleasure." ● Alexis de VALON, vicomte Marie Charles Ferdinand, dit. (1818-1851), French archaeologist, traveler and writer. Saint-Priest, Saturday morning. to his dear uncle, Long and interesting letter. He would like an article by Dupont-White on his work Une Année dans le Levant, and evokes in passing his days of vacation in Saint-Priest where he dreams of "agriculture, irrigation, liquid fertilizer and praline", and where "we have Benjamin Delessert and we are waiting for MM. Mérimée and Viollet-le-Duc". Finally, he asserts himself "Bonapartist in the devil and [he] loves this President who speaks so sensibly and so well in such a difficult situation". ● Auguste NICOLAS (1807-1888), Catholic writer and magistrate. Bordeaux, February 13, 1848. With envelope. Long and interesting letter on his Etudes philosophiques sur le Christianisme. Binding rubbed, small accident to head cap, interior fresh.
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