[MARIE ANTOINETTE]. File on the false letters of Marie Antoi - Lot 264

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[MARIE ANTOINETTE]. File on the false letters of Marie Antoi - Lot 264
[MARIE ANTOINETTE]. File on the false letters of Marie Antoinette. Precious file constituted by the historian Auguste Geffroy (1820-1895), professor at the Sorbonne, director of the French School of Rome and member of the Institute; he revealed the deception of Feuillet de Conches. Preserved in a file bearing this title: "Articles, papers and letters concerning the false letters of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI and contained in the Hunolstein and Feuillet de Conches collections". The fruits of his labors will be the subject of several publications, attached to the present file. 1. Correspondence - Princess Mathilde: 3 L.A.S. on the letters of Marie-Antoinette that she had asked to the queen of Holland + draft letter of Geffroy - Alfred von Arneth, director of the archives in Vienna: important correspondence of 13 letters (43 pp.) + draft of answer + reproductions of documents of Marie-Antoinette. This exchange of correspondence will form the basis of their joint work on the correspondence of Marie-Antoinette. - Letters from the Count of Hunolstein (2 + note from Geffroy), François and Louis Buloz (4), Sainte-Beuve (3 + 2 draft replies), Feuillet de Conches (4, including 2 to Buloz, defending himself from the accusations made against him). - Letters from the Count of Manderstöm, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden (4 from Stockholm, one of 8 pages), R. Klinckowstrom (from Stockholm), H. Desprez, Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (2, from Bonn), Cuvillier-Fleury, Eudore Soulié, art historian and curator, Count Riant, Désiré Nisard, A. Le Rebours, A. Taillandier, Maxime Du Camp + 3 drafts from Auguste Geffroy. 2. Articles and publications: - Marie-Antoinette according to authentic documents". Article by Auguste Geffroy published in La Revue des deux mondes of September 15, 1865, pp. 642 to 686. - On the authenticity of the letters of Marie-Antoinette". Article by Auguste Geffroy published in La Revue des deux mondes of July 15, 1866, pp. 446 to 515. - Extract from the newspaper Le Temps of January 4, 1866. Answer to Feuillet de Conches concerning the letters of Marie-Antoinette that he published. 8 pp. in-8. - Answer of Geoffroy to Buloz, concerning Feuillet de Conches, published in the section Essais et notices of the Revue des deux mondes. - Marie-Antoinette et Marie-Thérèse d'après les papiers secrets du comte de Mercy-Argenteau, by M. le chevalier A. d'Arneth director of the archives of the imperial house and the state of Austria and M. A. Geffroy professor at the Faculty of Letters of Paris. Paris, J. Clayes, 1873, 47 pp. in-8. Unclipped. - 4 press articles published in Le Temps, from 1865 to 1867, on the same subject, by Feuillet de Conches (2), Auguste Geffroy and Ed. Scherer + one by Anatole France. An old photograph of the portrait of Marie-Antoinette by Roslin kept in the castle of Drotningholm is attached (23,5 x 16,5 cm).
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