Correspondence to Paul and Apolline LACROIX : - Lot 28

Correspondence to Paul and Apolline LACROIX : Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE 1804-1869). French literary critic and writer. - 40 L.a.s. "Ste Beuve" addressed between 1830 and 1847 to the novelist Apolline BIFFE-LACROIX, wife and collaborator of Paul LACROIX, known as Le bibliophile Jacob. Important correspondence, including eight letters dated Lausanne, where Sainte-Beuve had gone from November 1837 to May 1838, to teach a course on Port Royal des Champs in his Jansenist period. - The set also includes two sonnets, a text intended to be set to music, a quotation and his "Sénateur" visiting card. - Jointly, 2 L.a.s. "Paul Lacroix" n.d., 2 pp. and 1 page in-8, addressed by Paul Lacroix, Curator of the Bibliothèque de L'Arsenal, to Sainte-Beuve, on various subjects and to introduce his friend, the historian Henri Martin.