Alfred de VIGNY. L.A.S., April 12, 1846, to Delphine de Girardin; 2 pages in-8. Letter accompanying the mailing of his Reception Speech at the Académie française. "This monologue, longer than Chatterton's, of which you spoke to me last night with so much grace and good friendship, keep it in memory of me and read it again if you can. - I shall never cease to regret your absence this morning. You would have made a strange study of men there. - I have only my sermon to send you, you must have the excommunication somewhere at home. - How charming your loyalty was yesterday in its revolt for me! I thank you for it from the bottom of this heart which never forgot a smile: - and never granted forgiveness for an offense" [Vigny quotes here a line from the poem Magdeleine (1822) by the young Delphine Gay]... Correspondance, t. VI, 46-93.