Lot n° 80
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200 - 300
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FRANÇOIS DE NEUFCHÂTEAU Nicolas-Louis (1750-1828) politician - Lot 80
FRANÇOIS DE NEUFCHÂTEAU Nicolas-Louis (1750-1828) politician, minister and one of the Directors; agronomist, poet, historian and literary critic.
5 L.A.S. "François de Neufchâteau", 1792-1824; 9 pages various sizes (portrait attached).
Épinal December 17, 1792, to general DUMOURIEZ. He recommends to the "liberator of Belgium" and "avenger of France" the doctor Guinet "doctor, very educated, zealous patriot who could be employed with success". He sends him "a copy of another philosophical joke, which has been successfully posted in Paris and elsewhere. It is a parody of the Declaration of Rights. Perhaps a poster of this kind can contribute to purify the opinion of the Peoples, whom you save from slavery" - Paris November 21, 1807: he is preparing to move and wants to become again "priest of Flora and Pomona"; he is charged to write a table "of the state of the French language and literature since 1789" and would like to consult on this subject "a small volume of Balzac's Entretiens". - August 7, 1819, to Alexandre PETITOT, about L'Esprit de Corneille of which the only copy was sent to the Academy; he is convalescing and does not read any newspaper; he does not want to travel anymore, to enjoy his last days: "the best way [] is to live with friendship, and like Candide, to cultivate his garden" - January 1, 1820, to François RAYNOUARD, perpetual secretary of the French Academy: he sends as a gift "a beautiful edition of Gil Blas, with notes that contain the key to the novel"; prints will follow - July 20, 1824, to Népomucène LEMERCIER, congratulating him on his drama, Richard III and Jeanne Shore, which he has read, his gout preventing him from going to the show: "by reading the good plays, I still believe to be present". He makes some remarks of style, and shows himself punctilious towards the work of the printer because the typography leaves something to be desired. He reproaches him for making a little too much of it: "the duplicity of the tones can it authorize the duplicity of the subjects? Didn't you have enough to paint with the awful effigy of this rascal Richard Three? [] you like to create monsters []. However I would have preferred Richard Three, alone and pure; but with less monologues. Corneille complains of having sacrificed, in his first plays, to this mania of the actors, who, in his time too, only wanted soliloquies. The essence of the dramatic art is however in the dialogue ".
Attached are 10 L.A.S. and 4 L.S.from Dominique-Joseph GARAT, 1793-1825 and n.d., to Marmontel, Jarente, Raynouard, Lacretelle, his nephew Maillia-Garat, etc.; plus a P.S. co-signed by Pache and a decree bearing his signature (1792), a letter from his elder brother Garat, and 2 printed decrees of the Convention.
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