Petrus BOREL. L.A.S., Paris, April 3 [1844], to the President of the Société des Gens de Lettres [Arsène Houssaye]; 1 page in-8 with the letterhead of the newspaper Satan with embossed vignette, address. He will appear the next day Thursday "before you & before M.M. the members of the committee meeting under your chairmanship, to respectfully submit to you the article that I propose, with your approval, to insert in one of the next issues of my newspaper" . Since February 1844, Pétrus Borel was the managing director of the newspaper Satan; according to Jules Claretie: "He founded, not so much to live as to spend his bile on men and things, Satan, a small armed newspaper at war which soon melted into the Corsaire and became the Corsaire-Satan, a lively and biting newspaper with sharp fangs, which knew how to grab and make the wound wide. "]