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DANIEL ROPS.

Lettre autographe signée.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1960].

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25 €

Autograph letter signed by Daniel-Rops on headed paper, undated, for thanks after sending a brochure.

MARTIN CHAUFFIER, Louis.

Lettre autographe signée à François Berge.

s.l., s.n., 1 février 1960.

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30 €

Autograph letter from Louis Martin Chauffier (1894-1980) addressed to François Berge (grandsons of President Félix Faure and director of "Cahiers du mois") about a controversy over a film on deportation which will give rise to a chronicle by Louis Martin Chauffier in the Figaro.

DANIEL ROPS.

Carte postale autographe signée à François Berge.

s.l., s.n., 18 juillet 1947.

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30 €

Autograph letter from Daniel-Rops (1901-1965) addressed to François Berge (director of "Cahiers du mois") about the proofreading of an article (Daniel Rops must delete a page!).

PAULHAN, Jean.

Clef de la Poésie.

Paris, Gallimard NRF, 1944.

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350 €

First edition.
Work by the very influential editor-in-chief of the NRF in which he proposes "to finally identify some method or key, which will allow us to separate the true from the false".

Pasted on the guard is a handwritten letter signed by Jean Paulhan addressed to Aimé Blanc-Dufour.
Aimé Blanc-Dufour had signed an article "Reflections on Jean Paulhan and rhetoric" in September 1946 in Cahiers du sud, Jean Paulhan responded to it on his relationship to rhetoric.
“Secret society, no doubt. And I believe, in this sense also, that Rhéto holds a secret, touching the relationships between language and thought…”.

MARTIN DU GARD, Maurice.

Deux lettres autographes signées.

s.l., s.n., [1941].

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Autograph letter signed by Maurice Martin du Gard (1896-1970), letter to an unknown recipient in which he evokes the release of "My friend Sacha Guitry" therefore in 1941.

attached, a bill to take date.

LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

Lettre autographe signée.

s.l., s.n., 14 janvier [1941].

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500 €

We are in January 1941, Claude Levi-Strauss after his demobilization is appointed as professor in Montpellier but is dismissed at the end of 1940 following the racial laws of Vichy. He then seeks to recover his works that have remained at the Museum and for this, asks the recipient to be put in touch with Louise Alcan:
"I, of course, left my functions last month and my great concern is the recovery of all my scientific documents, currently deposited at the Museum, and without which it is impossible for me to return to work".
Louise Alcan (spelled Alkan in the letter) is then a member of the resistance network of the Musée de L'Homme, she will be deported at the end of the war to Auschwitz.
A few months later Claude Levi-Strauss will go into exile in New York.

GOYAU, Georges.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

s.l., s.n., 16 septembre 1938.

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30 €

Autograph letter from Georges Goyau (1862-1939) on letterhead from the French Academy addressed to René Berge (his ex-brother-in-law) asking to fill out a form.
We are on the eve of the Second World War and the academician writes:
"The institute was invited to crate its precious objects, to send them far away, at the first alert!".

DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne.

Lettre autographe signée de la duchesse d'Uzès.

s.l., s.n., 15 mai 1929.

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20 €

Autograph letter signed by the Duchess of Uzès (1826-1933) about a charity sale (unidentified recipient).

JACOB, Max.

Carte postale adressée à Jean Cassou.

St Benoit sur Loire, s.n., 1er juin 1927.

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350 €

Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.
The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE].

Physique.

s.l., s.n., 1926-27.

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25 €

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE].

Physique.

s.l., s.n., [1925-26].

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MELINE, Jules.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

s.l., s.n., 7 juillet 1924.

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30 €

Autograph letter from Jules Méline (1862-1939, Senator of the Vosges) on Senate letterhead addressed to René Berge (1862-1948, son-in-law of President Félix Faure) conveying his congratulations for "the happy event".

HANOTAUX, Gabriel.

Lettre autographe signée.

s.l., s.n., 25 octobre 1914.

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Autograph letter signed by Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) responding to a request for information on prisoners of war. Hanotaux's son, injured in the arm, was then a prisoner near Berlin.

DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne.

Lettre autographe signée de la duchesse d'Uzès.

s.l., s.n., 23 juin 1913.

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20 €

PICARD, Emile.

Cours de mécanique générale.

s.l., s.n., 1913-1914.

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350 €

Manuscript of the course on mechanics given by Emile Picard, the french mathematicien.

BECQUEREL, Henri.

Manuscrit autographe : Reflexions sur une théorie moderne.

s.l., s.n., [1907].

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4000 €

Original Manuscript by Henri Becquerel.

An interesting manuscript in which the discoverer of radioactivity ponders the nature of matter at the end of his life.
This manuscript, with corrections for printing, was published at the Institut de France after a reading at the session of October 25, 1907.

One of Henri Becquerel’s final works, this manuscript reflects on the revolutionary discoveries that had upended the traditional understanding of matter: the electron (discovered by Thomson in 1897), radioactivity (discovered by Becquerel himself in 1896), and radioactive decay (discovered by Rutherford in 1902).

The long-held notion of the atom as an indivisible, stable particle, as proposed by Democritus, was challenged by these groundbreaking findings. Becquerel pondered this new reality, suggesting that atoms, rather than being eternally stable, might undergo modifications over time. However, the slow pace of these transformations or the rarity of conducive conditions could create the illusion of stability.

The 15 pages offprint will be joined (covers detached).

[MANUSCRIT MEDECINE].

Article sur l'allaitement.

s.l., s.n., [v.1900].

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60 €

Article (or part of article) handwritten by an unknown hand on breastfeeding. Numerous corrections to the text which suggest that this is a test before publication, but of which we have not found the published article.
The author finishes his text by advising breastfeeding the baby from the time of delivery.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Lettre autographe signée.

Le Vésinet, s.n., 1900.

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200 €

Robida is indignant about the poor quality of postcard prints of his color drawings for " Vieux Paris".

FAURE, Félix.

Lettre autographe signée à son futur gendre René Berge.

s.l., s.n., 9 février 1892.

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150 €

Autograph letter signed by President Félix Faure then deputy of the Lower Seine to his son-in-law René Berge who has just (or is going?) To marry Antoinette Faure. The one who was a childhood friend of Marcel Proust and for a while had to marry him.
"I am delighted with your joy and frankly I am not surprised at your love for our Nénette".

MANUSCRIT. Faculté de médecine et de Pharmacie de Bordeaux. Laboratoire d'Histoire Naturelle.

Travaux pratiques d'histoire naturelle.

s.l., s.n., 1887-1888.

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150 €

French manuscript during Bonnette medical stydies.
Practical work of natural history made in 1887-1888.
Dissection: earthworm, leech, crayfish, fly, snail, fish, frog, bird, rabbit. Botanical work: thalamiflores, Ranunculaceae, aconitrum, brassica, Malvaceae, corolliflores.

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre.

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques.

s.l., s.n., 1886.

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2000 €

Original manuscripts.
Rare and well-preserved set of two constitutional history courses given at Sciences Po Paris in 1886 by the founders of the school: Emile Boutmy and Alexandre Ribot.
Perfectly readable and careful manuscripts by a writer who will remain unknown who was a listener of Emile Boutmy's course on the Constitution of the United States in May-June 1886 and the course on the French Constitution since 1789 given by Alexandre Ribot in February-March 1886.
Created by Emile Boutmy in the aftermath of the 1870 defeat and the Paris Commune, the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (now known as Sciences-Po) aimed to teach political science as a positive science. She will form the elite of french politicians until today.
1886 was the last year in which Boutmy gave his course on the Constitution of the United States; we know a transcription of it in the notes left by Pierre de Coubertin who was also a listener of this course the same year. A comparison of the transcription of Coubertin's notes and our manuscript leads us to believe that our collection is more faithful (seems to be a word for word transcription) of Boutmy's teaching.

Alexandre Ribot's course on the French Constitution (second part of a more extensive course on European constitutions) leaves an important part on the birth of the Third Republic whose constitutional laws were only passed in 1875.

[ECOLE FORESTIERE] BARDONNAUT, H.

Épures.

s.l., s.n., 1880.

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300 €

Collection of drawings, by H. Bardonnaut.
For a long time, the Forestry School has depended on the Polytechnic School; it has retained the particularity of having its engineering students draw sketches: Development of maps and architectural models oriented towards the management of water and forests.

[MANUSCRIT].

Livre pour les communications dicté l'esprit de.

s.l., s.n., [v.1867].

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2500 €

Very rare manuscript of spiritualist session reports.
The spiritualist wave arrived in France in 1854, and spread to all walks of life. We will remember, for example, the famous sessions of Victor Hugo in Guernsey...
In the following decades, all bourgeois families tried to turn the tables or dance. Methods of spiritualist contact are becoming more refined, we are seeing automatic writing methods appear in the presence or absence of a medium.

Very few of the sessions from this period have left written traces; the manuscript we present is the transcription of automatic writing sessions that took place between October 1866 and March 1867 in the Moret family. The first sessions took place in the presence of the medium Ms. Parain then in Bordeaux with the help of Ms. Benoit. Mrs. X. (unidentified) first contacted her grandfather Louis Pierre Moret. This is also why she transcribed the content of her communications in this notebook which belonged to her grandfather. The first communications are short, but little by little the mind gains confidence and the communications are longer. It was then his mother Marie Louise Moulins who “took up” the pen, then his father Moret. It is also amusing to note that the signatures of the spirits gradually become different.

The spirits advise their descendants to pray for them, to be charitable and above all to spread the ideas of spiritualism! We know that her husband tried a session but seems very skeptical...In a communication one of the spirits evokes the Other world which is organized into planets hierarchized according to the degree of wisdom, the summit seems to be the planet Juno .

70-page manuscript, quite fascinating to read!

The book is continued by another hand (probably at the beginning of the 20th century) who used it as a sort of amicorum album to note famous quotes and thoughts (out of 114 pages, around twenty leaves were cut from this part) then 250 blank pages remain.

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] || GERMINY, Hippolyte de.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1860-61.

s.l., s.n., 1860-61.

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450 €

Collection of drawings, by Antoine Le Bègue de Germiny (X-1859).
The structure of these drawing as taught at the Ecole Polytechnique is often the same, with parts more or less developed, and drawings more or less elaborate according to the times and students.
We thus find drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.
In this collection are the 19 architectural plates, and 7 on topography.

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] || HUBERT, Charles Louis.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1860-61.

s.l., s.n., 1860-61.

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450 €

Collection of drawings, by Charles Louis Hubert (X-1859).
The structure of these drawing as taught at the Ecole Polytechnique is often the same, with parts more or less developed, and drawings more or less elaborate according to the times and students.
We thus find drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.
In this collection are the 18 architectural plates, and 6 on topography.

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] || GERMINY, Antoine Le Bègue de.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1859-60.

s.l., s.n., 1859-60.

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400 €

Collection of drawings, by Antoine Le Bègue de Germiny (X-1859).
The structure of these drawing as taught at the Ecole Polytechnique is often the same, with parts more or less developed, and drawings more or less elaborate according to the times and students.
We thus find drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.
In this collection are plates of curves, surfaces, 5 double of machine and gears, (2 are finelly watercolored) an 4 architectural plates.

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] || POWER, Charles.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1856-57-58.

s.l., s.n., 1856-57-58.

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600 €

Collection of drawings, by Charles Power (X-1856).
The structure of these drawing as taught at the Ecole Polytechnique is often the same, with parts more or less developed, and drawings more or less elaborate according to the times and students.
We thus find drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.
Of particular note in this collection are the 17 architectural plates, most of them colorful.

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] || AUDOY.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1850-51--52.

s.l., s.n., 1850-51-52.

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700 €

Collection of drawings, by Léon Audoy (X-1850).
The structure of these drawing as taught at the Ecole Polytechnique is often the same, with parts more or less developed, and drawings more or less elaborate according to the times and students.
We thus find drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.
In this manuscrit, the collection begins with 18 plates of curves, surfaces, perspective, cut of wood and stone.
Follow fine 13 plates on the machines and gears including 8 doubles, 2 on half pages and 5 watercolors.
Then 18 plates of architecture, including 2 doubles and 11 watercolors.
The collection ends with 12 plates (topography) including 4 doubles and 4 in colors.

ARAGO, François || LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.

Projet de décret relatif à un crédit supplémentaire de Dix mille francs pour la réimpression des Œuvres scientifiques de Laplace.

s.l., s.n., 22 juin 1848.

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450 €

Rare document signed by Lamartine and Arago.
Draft decree to allocate 10,000 fr to continue the reprint of the Works of Laplace. This had been allocated 40,000 fr in 1842 but the initial estimate having been exceeded, money had to be added to the project.

The document is drafted by the Secretary of the Executive Power Commission and is signed by all the members of this commission: François Arago, Alphonse de Lamartine, Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, Pierre Marie de St Georges.
Rare testimony of this commission which lasted only for the months of May and June 1848 and which saw the Scientist and the Poet at the top of the French State.

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest.

Epures de Géométrie descriptive.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1847].

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200 €

Collection of drawings, by Marie Henri Ernest Bardonnaut (X 1847).

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Manuscripts

DANIEL ROPS.

Lettre autographe signée.

Autograph letter signed by Daniel-Rops on headed paper, undated, for thanks after sending a brochure.

MARTIN CHAUFFIER, Louis.

Lettre autographe signée à François Berge.

Autograph letter from Louis Martin Chauffier (1894-1980) addressed to François Berge (grandsons of President Félix Faure and director of "Cahiers du mois") about a controversy over a film on deportation which will give rise to a chronicle by Louis Martin Chauffier in the Figaro.

DANIEL ROPS.

Carte postale autographe signée à François Berge.

Autograph letter from Daniel-Rops (1901-1965) addressed to François Berge (director of "Cahiers du mois") about the proofreading of an article (Daniel Rops must delete a page!).

PAULHAN, Jean.

Clef de la Poésie.

MARTIN DU GARD, Maurice.

Deux lettres autographes signées.

Autograph letter signed by Maurice Martin du Gard (1896-1970), letter to an unknown recipient in which he evokes the release of "My friend Sacha Guitry" therefore in 1941.attached, a bill to take date.

LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

Lettre autographe signée.

GOYAU, Georges.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne.

Lettre autographe signée de la duchesse d'Uzès.

Autograph letter signed by the Duchess of Uzès (1826-1933) about a charity sale (unidentified recipient).

JACOB, Max.

Carte postale adressée à Jean Cassou.

Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE].

Physique.

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE].

Physique.

MELINE, Jules.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

Autograph letter from Jules Méline (1862-1939, Senator of the Vosges) on Senate letterhead addressed to René Berge (1862-1948, son-in-law of President Félix Faure) conveying his congratulations for "the happy event".

HANOTAUX, Gabriel.

Lettre autographe signée.

Autograph letter signed by Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) responding to a request for information on prisoners of war. Hanotaux's son, injured in the arm, was then a prisoner near Berlin.

DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne.

Lettre autographe signée de la duchesse d'Uzès.

PICARD, Emile.

Cours de mécanique générale.

Manuscript of the course on mechanics given by Emile Picard, the french mathematicien.

BECQUEREL, Henri.

Manuscrit autographe : Reflexions sur une théorie moderne.

[MANUSCRIT MEDECINE].

Article sur l'allaitement.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Lettre autographe signée.

Robida is indignant about the poor quality of postcard prints of his color drawings for " Vieux Paris".

FAURE, Félix.

Lettre autographe signée à son futur gendre René Berge.

MANUSCRIT. Faculté de médecine et de Pharmacie de Bordeaux. Laboratoire d'Histoire Naturelle.

Travaux pratiques d'histoire naturelle.

French manuscript during Bonnette medical stydies. Practical work of natural history made ​​in 1887-1888. Dissection: earthworm, leech, crayfish, fly, snail, fish, frog, bird, rabbit. Botanical work: thalamiflores, Ranunculaceae, aconitrum, brassica, Malvaceae, corolliflores.

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre.

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques.

[ECOLE FORESTIERE] BARDONNAUT, H.

Épures.

[MANUSCRIT].

Livre pour les communications dicté l'esprit de.

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] || GERMINY, Hippolyte de.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1860-61.

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] || HUBERT, Charles Louis.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1860-61.

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] || GERMINY, Antoine Le Bègue de.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1859-60.

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] || POWER, Charles.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1856-57-58.

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] || AUDOY.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1850-51--52.

ARAGO, François || LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.

Projet de décret relatif à un crédit supplémentaire de Dix mille francs pour la réimpression des Œuvres scientifiques de Laplace.

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest.

Epures de Géométrie descriptive.

Collection of drawings, by Marie Henri Ernest Bardonnaut (X 1847).

Autograph letter signed by Maurice Martin du Gard (1896-1970), letter to an unknown recipient in which he evokes the release of "My friend Sacha Guitry" therefore in 1941.

attached, a bill to take date.

Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.
The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.

French manuscript during Bonnette medical stydies.
Practical work of natural history made in 1887-1888.
Dissection: earthworm, leech, crayfish, fly, snail, fish, frog, bird, rabbit. Botanical work: thalamiflores, Ranunculaceae, aconitrum, brassica, Malvaceae, corolliflores.