Pierre LOUŸS (1870-1925). 6 autograph manuscripts, 4 signed - Lot 131

Pierre LOUŸS (1870-1925). 6 autograph manuscripts, 4 signed "Pierre Louis", [1883]-1887; various formats. Nice set of youth assignments to the Alsatian School. Small notebook with drawings, 6th or 5th grade, [1883-1884] (in-8, 37p. on 19 ff.). Notes on French history, and on Plato, German verbs; homework drafts: German themes, Latin version (Seneca), French (Masséna dans Gênes, Térence chez Cecilius, la Chanson de Roland), English theme; notes (in Latin version, Louis is first with 16); etc. 12 pages are decorated with drawings, mostly in pen, probably caricatures of teachers, fantasy characters... Homework for the second year of secondary school (1886-1887): - Racine reads Œdipe-Roi at Auteuil before La Fontaine and Boileau (10p. in-4). - Pompey, on Corneille's play, March 8 (5p. in-4). - Sur une pensée de La Rochefoucauld (8p. in-4, comments by the professor in black pencil, and reactions by Louÿs in blue pencil). - Les origines de l'imprimerie (9p. in-4, teacher's appreciation at the head). - Tite-Live (lecture of March 2, 1887) (12p. in-fol.); we quote the conclusion: "Tite-Live is only a poor historian, according to our current way of conceiving history. On the contrary, he is excellent, according to the Roman way. As a writer, he is excellent from every point of view, and can be considered with Cicero and Sallustus as the greatest prose writer that Roman antiquity has produced.