[Maurice TOURNEUX (1849-1917). 54 L.A.S. to him, 1883-1912. - Lot 203

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[Maurice TOURNEUX (1849-1917). 54 L.A.S. to him, 1883-1912. - Lot 203
[Maurice TOURNEUX (1849-1917). 54 L.A.S. to him, 1883-1912. Important correspondence received by the famous archivist, historian and bibliographer. It deals with various subjects of an artistic, literary or bibliophilic nature: dispatch of autograph catalogs devoted to Buffon, Rousseau, and Voltaire; discovery in the National Archives of a correspondence between Boisgelin and the Countess of Gramont; exhibition of Carayon's bindings at the Palais de l'Industrie in 1894; request for support from a sculptor to have one of his works purchased by the State; request for information on an 18th century spinet; announcement of a sale of books, engravings, and autographs in Bar-le-Duc, with request for advice from M. Charavay; request for information on a conventionnel; preparation of the table of the Archives de l'art français; theses on Charles Duclos and Marmontel; research on Buffon; conferences in Oxford; project for the creation of the Société des Amis de la Bibliothèque nationale (1905); etc. The letters were written by librarians, historians, archivists, teachers, artists, politicians: Pierre Bertrand, of the Revue historique; Albert Cans, professor at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles; Émile Carayon, painter and bookbinder; Marcel Debut, sculptor; A. Dufour, librarian in Corbeil; Henri de l'Isle, former captain and collector; Raymond Koechlin, general secretary of the Société des amis du Louvre; Auguste Kuscinski, author of the Dictionnaire des conventionnels; Jean Laran, art historian, curator of the Cabinet des estampes; Léopold Le Bourgo, librarian-archivist of the city of Lorient; Scipion Lenel, professor at the high school of Amiens; Jules Maciet, vice-president of the Central Union of Decorative Arts; Eugène Manuel, poet; Matry, librarian at Semur; Charles Maunoir, geographer; Jacques de Nouvion, journalist; René Paquet d'Hauteroche, historian and ornithologist; Victor Perrot, of the Commission du Vieux Paris; Ernest Prarond, Latinist and historian; Bernard Prost, general inspector of libraries; Lucien Raulet, of the Society of the History of Paris; Mario Roustan, man of letters; Adrien Sée, magistrate and historian; Philippe Tamizey de Larroque, historian; Ambroise Tardieu, archaeologist; Charles Tranchant, archivist; Gabriel Trarieux, poet and novelist; etc.
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