DELAVIGNE Casimir (1793-1843) poète et auteur dramatique [AF 1825, 28e f]. Autograph poem signed "Casimir Delavigne", Première Messénienne, La Bataille de Waterloo; 6 pages in-fol. Famous poem on the defeat of Waterloo. It is the first poem of the collection Les Messéniennes, carefully copied by Delavigne (he omitted in the middle of poem 12 "They are not any more, let in peace their ashes By unjust clamors these outraged braves To justify themselves did not want to descend; But one day avenged them: They all died to defend you ". Attached is a P.A.S., scrapbook page from his play Les Comédiens (1 page in-fol.).