Alphonse DAUDET (1840-1897) Autograph manuscript, History of my books. Robert Helmont, [1874]; 8 pages small in-4. Introductory text of Robert Helmont. Études et paysages (Dentu, 1874). Daudet evokes his forced stay in 1870 in Champrosay, in Delacroix's former studio, when he had broken his leg, then the abandonment of the house to escape the advance of the Prussians, and the return to the peaceful house during the Commune: "That very evening, I took the notes of Robert Helmont, the diary of a solitary man, in the large studio, while the patrols of German cavalry still camped at the far end of the country paraded under my windows. .... The manuscript shows a few erasures and corrections.