Léon HENNIQUE. Autograph manuscript, Chronique du temps qui - Lot 441

Léon HENNIQUE. Autograph manuscript, Chronique du temps qui fut la Jacquerie, [1903]; 35pages in-8 written on recto in green paper-titled folder. Pastiche of a historical chronicle. The publisher Romagnol had commissioned Luc-Olivier Merson to illustrate Mérimée's La Jaquerie; following a dispute with Calmann-Lévy, owner of the rights to the text, he was unable to publish it, and called on Léon Hennique to write this chronicle, published in 1903 under the pseudonym Mayneville. The manuscript, typeset in black ink on lined paper, shows a few erasures and corrections. It begins: "Jacques Bonhomme! Such was the name chosen by the nobility, a contemptuous name, since the 13th century, to mock the people of the countryside. Jacques Bonhomme! Jacques Benoit! Hence Jacquerie, that ugly revolt"... Enclosed is the catalog of the sale of Léon Hennique's library (1972).