LITERATURE - Lot 132

LITERATURE - JOHANNOT: 3 autographed letters addressed to Achille Ricourt. [August 13, 1831, November 25 November 1835] and undated; 4 pages in-8° and 1 page in-12°, with addresses. To the director of the newspaper L'Artiste, one of which is completed by his brother Tony Johannot. ─ "I saw Hugot [sic] this morning and he is convinced that you will be favorable to him in your newspaper. He told me to have given you, at your request, some verses of his play and he considers you, so to speak, as committed to him. [...] What is certain is that you will make an enemy of him forever and I fear that I would fear that this could harm your journal if you do not say anything good about it tomorrow. And in post-script: "I'll give you a drawing, I can't do otherwise, having spoken to him about it at the rehearsal. My intention was already to offer you another one without asking you for money, it will be this one if you want it. On August 11, 1831 took place the first performance of Marion de Lorme. ─ [25 November 1835]. He did not forget the promise of a drawing for L'Artiste but awaits an answer from Furne's pat. Tony Johannot continues this letter, delighted that Ricourt is pleased with the drawing he has sent and promises him others for the week. "As for as for L'Artiste, you know how devoted I am to it and how much I hate any competition which could harm him. ─ Alfred Johannot asks for the sending of a sum owed to him: "I have to pay ai counted on it. A thousand pardons, but it is the press that makes me pester you like this. I can't decide to decide if it is necessary to suppose that it is about Victor Hugo or not. - Jules JANIN : Autograph letter signed addressed to Achille Ricourt director of L'Artiste. [1836]; 1 page in-8 on a bifeuillet with address. He sends a redone article and announces two others, one of which on George Sand, "written with the greatest care. great care. And it is now one of the best things I have done. Then he asks her for an of 500 francs, to be paid back within three months, to avoid him being ruined. This article on Sand, first published in L'Artiste and then in the Biographie des femmes contemporary French authors, began thus: "Who is he or who is she? Man or woman, angel or demon, paradox or truth? Whatever it is, it is one of the greatest writers of our time". - François PONSARD : Autograph letter signed to Achille Ricourt, director of L'Artiste and autograph letter signed to Jules Janin, attached, with envelope. Vienna June 16, 1843; 4 pages in-8°. Beautiful and long letter of the young playwright, written a few weeks after the premiere of Lucrèce, with Marie Dorval in the title role. This first tragedy of Ponsard was acclaimed by the opponents of the romantic theater embodied by Victor Hugo's play, Les Burgraves, created only a few days before Lucrèce. Ponsard fled to Vienna where he was received with banquets and toasts, "but I but I insisted that the newspapers of the locality do not reproduce them for fear of your chatterboxes of there up". He said he was very happy with his newfound freedom and tranquility, praising the beer in Vienna, no longer caring about Paris or the and no longer cares about Paris or the newspapers. However, he took note of the serial signed by Jules Janin in the Journal des Débats: "There is sugar for the play and pepper for the author. But I don't blame him. I find myself so at ease here, in this new freedom of spirit that I have no bad mood. Janin was very cold at the end, but he was warm before and during the first performance. I am grateful to him ". But Ponsard will not react to any criticism, except to the Revue des Deux Mondes " if Buloz attacks me personally as a private individual (then I would show him the teeth), I write to Janin only because I remember that he was the first who welcomed me and that I was perhaps a little cold myself when I saw his coldness". In post-scriptum, he indicates to have read the last number of the aforementioned review: "There ends the war. I am not I am not attacked as a man, and I have nothing to say. They still throw that sonnet to Madame Dorval as if I had authorized its publication. May the devil take away the indiscretions and the indiscretions so that there are no more on earth. Only you and people like you. Ponsard joined to his letter the one intended for Janin, leaving to Ricourt the care to decide to give it to him or to burn it. or to burn it. He thanks the critic for his benevolence and for having been the first to to have declared himself in favour of a piece signed with a completely unknown name, repeating that he will not that he would not defend himself in case of an attack, and that he had only written twice to the to the newspapers, once to the Gazette de France to release his responsibility for verses, made the college and printed without his consent, and another time to the Constitutional, to apologize to apologize to Mr. Viennet