SAINTE-BEUVE (Charles-Augustin). Approximately 35 letters. - Lot 159

SAINTE-BEUVE (Charles-Augustin). Approximately 35 letters. Autograph letter signed [to Charles Nolet]. 1869. BELLE LETTRE SUR L'INFLUENCE DE LA PRESSE PERIODIQUE SUR LA LITTERATURE de son époque. - Autograph letter signed to a "monsieur et cher compatriote". "December 1st. Thanks for a "collection of JANSENIST AND MOLINIST PORTRAITS". For his part, he offers her a "small volume... which has no other price than to be printed and unpublished, consequently to exist only for a few friends...", adding: "... It is in this way, if I had the means, that I would most like to produce myself...". - Autograph letter signed to a general [probably historian Philippe-Paul de Ségur]. [Probably late 1843 or early 1844]. Concerning the maneuvers surrounding HIS CANDIDATURE TO THE FRENCH ACADEMY (Sainte-Beuve would be elected on March 14, 1844). He cites Lamartine, Lacretelle, Thiers. - Autograph letter signed [to Canon Achille Dupuy]. 1853. Declines the offer to review his correspondent's Histoire de saint Martin, évêque de Tours, published at the end of the previous year: "... What always stops me, when it comes to studying him as a whole, is that magic and theurgy which is so essential in him and so foreign to us. We have a good grasp of a moral and pious Saint Martin, but the real key to the man remains hidden in a sort of cabalistic cupboard. That, Sir, is what kept me...". - Correspondence of 3 letters (one autograph signed, 2 signed) and a signed autograph carte de visite, addressed to Oscar-Amédée de Watteville Du Grabe. 1855-1865 and n.d. Concerning MALHERBE, PROUDON, VILLEMAIN, etc. - 2 autograph letters signed [probably to Adolphe Chéruel]. 1856. Concerning a work to be printed by Charles Lahure for Louis Hachette: "... We have won the 'o's in imperfect tenses, we're putting them in...". - Autograph letter signed to Princess Marie Cantacuzène. 1862. "I am obeying a wish expressed to me, which was an order. I didn't have a card photograph: I only had one of this size, which I had reproduced. I send this copy with my apologies...". - Letter signed [probably to physicist Joseph-Louis Trouessart]. 1865. Concerning the GALILEE PROCEEDINGS, the opinion of physicist and astronomer Jean-Baptiste ("I knew this old scientist. Towards the end, he had quite returned to the religious opinions that imposed their limits on him..."), and the personality of CAMILLE FLAMMARION ("... He is a young man who aims and sacrifices for success, a skilful trainer in the sense that he believes the current is going..."). Joseph-Louis Trouessart, professor at the University of Poitiers, had published articles and a book on the question of Galileo's trial. Sainte-Beuve had just devoted his "Lundi" of May 22, 1865 to the works of Joseph Bertrand, Les Fondateurs de l'astronomie moderne, and Camille Flammarion, La Pluralité des mondes habités. - Correspondence of 15 letters (14 autographed and one autographed), addressed to the bibliographer Antoine Rochebilière. 1850-1869 and n.d. Concerning François-René de CHATEAUBRIAND, the polygrapher and politician Charles-Athanase Walckenaer, perpetual secretary of the Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres, ALFRED DE VIGNY, Senator Narcisse Vieillard (former tutor to Napoleon III), General Alexandre d'Alton, loaned books he wishes to return (including an issue of the Bulletin du bibliophile), a statuette offered to him by his correspondent, etc. - Correspondence of 5 letters (4 autograph signed and one dictated to his secretary Jules Troubat with autograph signed apostille), addressed to the same. 1857-1869 and n.d. CONCERNING HIS OWN BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH ON THE XVIIth CENTURY, around his Histoire de Port-Royal, Madame de Sévigné, Jean Chapelain, Jean de La Fontaine, Paul Pellisson-Fontanier, Catherine de Vertus (close to Port-Royal), the doctor and academic writer Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardières, Les Mille-et-une-nuits in Antoine Galland's translation, Claude de Sainte-Marthe's work on Port-Royal (1667). - Etc.