LAPRADE Victor de (1812-1883) poète [AF 1858, 10e f]. - Lot 119

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LAPRADE Victor de (1812-1883) poète [AF 1858, 10e f]. - Lot 119
LAPRADE Victor de (1812-1883) poète [AF 1858, 10e f]. 24 L.A.S. (one partly dictated) "V. de Laprade", Lyon, Uriage-les-Bains near Grenoble, Hyères 1859-1881, [to Régis de CHANTELAUZE]; 79 pages in-8 (portrait enclosed). Interesting friendly and literary correspondence. He is anxious "to be free of this hard day" of his reception at the Academy (February 20, 1859) "You will send me a list of all the autographs you wish to have, I will try to complete them in Paris; in the literary world, of course []. As for those of Brifaut and Alfred de Musset, you can count on it" (February 28, 1859) He doubts the success of the edition of "poor LAMARTINE" (May 13, 1860) He asks to announce his Questions d'art et de morale in his journal (July 11, 1861) He follows his advice and cuts in two his work on the feeling of nature (November 13, 1865) Advice for the academic candidacy of his friend: Legouvé, Hetzel, Dumas fils, Taillandier, Cuvillier-Fleury are mentioned (January 19, 1877) "Your Marie Stuart will certainly have great success in volume. When I read the end of it I had just finished reading Saint Bartholomew and his dragonnades and I had become almost Protestant. Your scoundrel Amyas Poulet and that horrible wench Elisabeth made me a Catholic again" (November 7, 1875) "What do you say about the Bornier candidacy to oust J. Simon? That seems to me to be a bit strong" (November 22, 1875) "There would be nothing new but an absolute destruction of Olympio. Posterity will do it " (January 8, 1880) Articles foreseen on his Marie Mancini, " the one of your books which should sell the most because it has the interest of a novel, in addition to that of the history and the tradition " (December 21, 1880) Explanations: " I wanted to say that my poetry was a poetry of the soul but not the poetry of the soul and especially the only one without speaking about so many contemporaries and friends. How in front of Lamartine could I have thought of attributing to me the monopoly of the soul? [] Certainly I would not ask better to be a little the poet of the passion in the way of Shakespeare, of Dante, of Byron, but I would not like to be it in the way of Baudelaire and even in that of Victor Hugo " (October 4, 1881) One meets also the names of Jean Aicard, Jules Janin, Sainte-Beuve, Gambetta, André Theuriet, Alphonse Lemerre, etc.
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