Manuscript - Lot 366

Manuscript [AUTOGRAPHS] A very handsome collection containing a large number of autographs from around 130 personalities from the worlds of diplomacy and politics, aristocracy, administration, literature and the military, dating from around 1860. In-4, set of autograph letter leaves mounted on tabs in the album. Contemporary brown calf, ornate ribbed spine, spine partly detached, motto Semper and Idem gilt on upper board. Correspondence largely addressed to the French diplomat Baron Charles Gustave Martin de Chassiron (1818-1871). He belonged to one of the most famous families of Charente-Maritime. List of personalities in the album: Mocquard, cabinet de l'Empereur sur ordre de S. M. (letter to Baron de Chassiron) - Princess Bacciochi (known as "Madame Napoleone", was appointed Princess of Lucca and Piombino by Napoleon I) - Baron Gros, 5 letters, 17 leaves, (Ambassador, concluded the Treaty of Tien-Tsin (June 25, 1858), and that of Yeddo with Japan) - Admiral Rigault de Genouilly (French admiral who was Minister of the Navy under the Second Empire) - Baron de Bourqueney (French diplomat and politician; chargé d'affaires in London, then French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire) - Comte de Lagrené (diplomat, peer de France and deputy to the Legislative Assembly) - Billault (French lawyer and politician) - Marquis de Turgot (ambassador, senator) - Vicomte de Lagnéronnière (journalist, essayist, diplomat and politician) - Duc de Morny (French financier and politician of the July Monarchy) - Michel Chevalier (Polytechnicien, became an engineer in the Corps des Mines) - Alfred Blanche (Chairman of the Advisory Committee, former Director of the École Nationale d'Administration) - Jahan (Conseil d'État) - Vicomte Napoléon Duchâtel (senior French civil servant and politician) - Delangle (French lawyer, magistrate and politician) - Princesse Marie de Solms Batazzi (woman of letters, poetess, founder of several magazines, journalist using several pseudonyms such as "Le baron de Stock" or "Bernard Camille". She is also nicknamed "La Muse des Alpes") - Désiré Nizard (French politician, writer and literary critic) - Émile Deschamps (French poet) - Comte Auguste de Bastard (French officer, art historian, collector and printer-engraver) - Madame Ancelot (novelist, playwright, memoirist, painter and French salonière) - Vicomte de Martroy - Forcade de la Roquette (senator, vice-president of the Council of State, Commerce and Agriculture, and finally Minister of the Interior in the Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte government) - Baron de Bourgoing (Inspector General of stud farms. - Député de la Nièvre - Propriétaire du "Journal de la Nièvre") - Comte et Comtesse de Goulaine (French politician) - Général Perrot (French general and politician) - Chamblain (Conseiller d'État à la section Guerre-Algérie) - Baron Rostan - Dupuy de Lôme (French naval engineer and politician) - Duvergier - Maréchal Vaillant (French politician and soldier, maréchal de France, then senator, Minister of War, Minister of the Emperor's household, and Minister of Fine Arts) - Troplong (Institut de France, Académie des sciences morales et politiques, Pair de France, President of the Court of Cassation) - General Mellinet (French general) - Alfred Leroux (French banker and politician, Member of Parliament for Vendée and Minister of Agriculture and Trade) - Marechal d'Ornano (French soldier and politician, Marshal of France) - Eugène Bataille (emblematic figure of the Hydropathes, then Fumistes, Hirsutes, and Incohérents) - Latour Dumoulin (French politician, son of the creator of va louage Princesse d'Essling (aristocrat, wardrobe mistress to Empress Eugénie de Montijo) - Max Boutin - Baron de Heeckeren (French soldier and politician, who became a senator under the Second Empire. He is best known for killing the Russian poet Pushkin in a duel) - Alexis de Gabriac (French diplomat and traveler) - Comte Gustave de Juigné (French politician) - Marquis de La Rochejacquelein (French politician) - Feuillet de Conches (French diplomat, journalist, writer and collector) - Ponsard (French poet and playwright) - Vicomtesse de Léautaud - Maréchal Canrobert (French marshal) - Général Dumont - Général marquis d'Hautpoul (general and Minister of War) - Roy de Lonlay - Achille Fould - Marquis d'Hervey Saint Denys (French sinologist, best known for his research into sleep and dreams), etc.