JOUBERT Joseph (1754-1824) writer and moralist. autograph manuscript, [1815 ?]; 3 pages high in-8 (22 x 10,3 cm). Beautiful text on the reading of the biographer of Fénelon and Bossuet, Mgr Louis-François de BAUSSET (1748-1824, academician in 1816, cardinal in 1817). "When I read Mr. de Bausset, I think I am traveling by boat, on a beautiful day, in a pleasant country, and on a beautiful river, where I see charming islands, full of fruits, full of flowers, inscriptions and monumens. [...] The boat is its own book, the river is its story, always easy, always flowing, always calm, always quiet; and where one is as if carried by an invisible movement, from which one feels only pleasure. The country, it is this unique reign which one knows here better than elsewhere; this reign of Louis quatorze, of which one sees on the right and on the left, like so many edges and banks picturesquely drawn, the most important parts; of which one appertifies here and there, close to oneself or in the distance, the most illustrious characters; and that one crosses all... He admires the clarity that emanates from the author's mind, and the quotations placed like so many islands in the course of the story, from which he gives some extracts...