[Pierre-Ange VIEILLARD (1778-1862)]. Correspondence, approx. - Lot 163

[Pierre-Ange VIEILLARD (1778-1862)]. Correspondence, approx. 500 letters, mostly L.A.S., to him (or Madame), plus some 30 L.A. (drafts or minutes) from Vieillard, 1803-1861; numerous addresses (defects in a few letters). Important correspondence received by Vieillard, notably from his collaborators, writers and musicians. Pierre-Ange Vieillard de Boismartin (Rouen 1778-Paris 1862), journalist, librarian, literary critic, playwright and librettist. Literary critic for the Moniteur universel, one of the principal editors of the Encyclopédie des gens du monde, curator of the Arsenal library and then that of the Senate, he was the author of numerous plays, often in collaboration, and a lyricist and librettist sought after and appreciated by musicians. The dancer Albert (and his wife Louise, 48), Dr. Jean-Louis Alibert, Félix Blangini, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (3), Casimir Bonjour, Clément Brière, Charles Brifaut (6), B. Brulebœuf-Letournan, L. Bucaille (12), Gustave Caillemer, Alphonse de Calonne, Vincent Campenon, Louis de Casamayor, Alexandre de Chambure, Stanislas Champein, Alissan de Chazet (13), Hippolyte Chelard (4), Hippolyte Colet, Alexandre Corby (8), Auguste Coster (4), L.F. Cottin, Karl Daclin, Auguste Dauverné, abbé Gaspard Deguerry, Zélie Delaire, Charles Delioux, Martial Delpit, Charles Desains, Desdevises du Dézert (9), A. Doin (2), Hugues Dubourg, Georges Ducis, Joseph d'Estourmel (23), Louis Festeau, Gaston de Flotte, A. François (9), S.E. Géraud, Nicolas Gersin (5), J.B. Gindre de Mancy, Alphonse Grün (director of Moniteur universel, 38, plus minutes of replies from Vieillard), G. d'Hermilly, comte de Kergorlay, Léon Kreutzer (4), baron de Ladoucette (6), Ch de Lagarde (7), Honoré de Lourdoueix (7), Alphonse Martainville, J.B. de Martignac (concerning construction of the new opera house), J. Martin d'Angers, Malvina Mazois, Auguste Michelet, comtesse de Montalivet, Édouard Mounier, R. de Nugent, Countess O'Mahony, Giovanni Pacini (10), Émilien Pacini (3), Joseph and Rose Pain (2 and 7), Charles and Ernestine Panckoucke (4), Baron Papion du Château (4), Charles Plantade (4), Charles Poisot (3), Antoine Ponchard (3), Gaspard de Pons (17), Adrienne Pottier (7), N. de Puisard (4), André-Antoine Ravrio, Auguste Robert (4), Jacques Bins de Saint-Victor (12), Thomas Sauvage, François Sauvo (11), Jean-Henri Schnitzler (6), Louis Sejan, Jules de Somer (7), J.B.A. Soulié, Julien Travers (14), Étienne Tréfeu, Auguste Troplong (3), Cécile Valois (3), etc. Drafts and minutes of letters from Vieillard to theater directors, Bochsa, Boieldieu, Chelard, Corby, Cuvillier-Fleury, Désaugiers, Duponchel, Mennechet, Persuis, Picard, Sauvo, Thiers, Turgand, etc.