[Théodose, comte de LAGRENÉ (1800-1862) diplomat, peer de Fr - Lot 495

[Théodose, comte de LAGRENÉ (1800-1862) diplomat, peer de France and deputy to the Legislative Assembly]. Approximately 185 letters, mostly L.A.S., addressed to Lagrené, his wife, or their daughter Gabrielle, 1836-1873; mounted on tabs in 3 vols. small in-4, red half-chagrin. One volume consists of 95 letters addressed to Mme de Lagrené from 1833 to 1873: her daughter Gabrielle, Thérèse Apponyi, Mme d'Arbouville, the Baroness de Barante, E. Beulé, Princess Czartoryski, Tanneguy. Duchâtel, Joseph Méry, Désiré Nisard, Pasquier, the Duchesse de Périgord, the Baronne de Rothschild, Salvandy, Mme Swetchine, Mme Thiers, the Duc de Valencia, Villemain, etc. One volume contains 66 letters by Mme C. Leman to the Lagrenés (mainly to Madame), from 1836 to 1873. Very affectionate correspondence, giving news of Parisian life (Lamennais, Balzac, death of Charles X, Rachel, Marie d'Agoult, 1848 revolution, Lamartine, etc.); the lady then spent most of her time in Lorraine, notably in Cattenom... The final volume contains 46 letters received by the Countess on the death of her husband in 1862: L. Benckendorff, Marquise de Béthisy, Edm. Bussierre, Edward Lee Childe, Mme de Circourt, Émile Deschamps, Isabelle Gagarine, Sophie Galitzine, Ch. Giraud, Reine Marie-Amélie, Nesselrode, Rambuteau, etc.