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ZOLA Émile (1840-1902).
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ZOLA Émile (1840-1902).
L.A.S. "Emile Zola", Paris September 1, 1864, [to Prosper FAUGÈRE]| 1 page in-8 on blue paper headed Libraire de L. Hachette et Cie, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 77.
[Zola, aged 24, was then head of the advertising department at the publisher Hachette, which had just published Prosper Faugère's edition of the Mémoires de Mme Roland, provoking a controversy with the historian Charles Dauban, while the journalist Philippe Dauriac was to devote an article to them, in Le Monde illustré].
"In the absence of M. Templier, I have the honor of passing on to you a letter we have just received, to which we would be grateful if you would kindly reply a few words. We will send Mr. Dauriac a list of the main inaccuracies you have noted in Mr. Dauban's edition. But we think it would be a good idea for you to provide this journalist with some information of your own, so that he can edify the public with full knowledge of the facts"...
Enclosed are 2 sheets of pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings by DESCAVES in 1915 and 1916 (probably Victor DESCAVES, 1899-1959, eldest son of Lucien Descaves): - 5 portraits of poilus| - dead soldier, with quotation from Victor Hugo's poem: "Ceux qui pieusement sont morts pour la patrie"...
L.A.S. "Emile Zola", Paris September 1, 1864, [to Prosper FAUGÈRE]| 1 page in-8 on blue paper headed Libraire de L. Hachette et Cie, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 77.
[Zola, aged 24, was then head of the advertising department at the publisher Hachette, which had just published Prosper Faugère's edition of the Mémoires de Mme Roland, provoking a controversy with the historian Charles Dauban, while the journalist Philippe Dauriac was to devote an article to them, in Le Monde illustré].
"In the absence of M. Templier, I have the honor of passing on to you a letter we have just received, to which we would be grateful if you would kindly reply a few words. We will send Mr. Dauriac a list of the main inaccuracies you have noted in Mr. Dauban's edition. But we think it would be a good idea for you to provide this journalist with some information of your own, so that he can edify the public with full knowledge of the facts"...
Enclosed are 2 sheets of pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings by DESCAVES in 1915 and 1916 (probably Victor DESCAVES, 1899-1959, eldest son of Lucien Descaves): - 5 portraits of poilus| - dead soldier, with quotation from Victor Hugo's poem: "Ceux qui pieusement sont morts pour la patrie"...