HUGO Victor [Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885], French poet and - Lot 130

HUGO Victor [Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885], French poet and writer. Autograph letter signed and addressed to Joseph d'Ortigue. July 25 [1831]; 1 page in-8° with address. About the commemorative ceremony of the July revolution. "I come back from the country with my eyes so sick that I can hardly see to answer your good and kind letter. You are a thousand times too good to have taken such care of the person I recommended to you. recommended to you. Now I recommend you myself. The day after tomorrow 27 at the Pantheon some stanzas of mine with the music of M. Herold (Rossini refused for fear of M. de Metternich). You would be very good to be there and to say the next day in the Avenir a word about this music and poetry. Here are two bills. It is said that there will be 800 performers ".