Mieulet de Lombrail - Lot-et-Garonne - Positivism - Lot 334

Mieulet de Lombrail - Lot-et-Garonne - Positivism [LETTERS and AUTOGRAPHS] A collection full of autographs following a series of issues of the journal L'Autographe. Included are autograph words and letters from Auguste Comte (founder of Positivism), 2 original ink drawings constituting a rebus and a pencil drawing by Philippe Jules Joseph Rickebusch (active in the second half of the 19th century), letter from Bounaurre de Lovy (writer), letters addressed to M. Mieulet de Lombrail stationed at headquarters in Varna and Constantinople (1854), letter concerning a draft biography of Auguste Comte, letter from Gondinet (friend of Auguste Comte), letter from Émile Littré to Mieulet de Lombrail, letter from Pierre Lafitte (president of Auguste Comte's executions), letter from Louis Huart (director of Charivari, missing at head), letter from Mlle Déjazet (actress), diploma of appointment as forest inspector in the Eure (year 9), letter from Jules Mène (animal artist), appointment as curator of the Compiègne hunting grounds signed by Berthier (vendémiaire year 2), letter (Barbizon,1866) from Jean-François Millet (famous painter), letter from Coqueiro (Brazilian scientist), letter from Félicien David (French composer), letter from Got (member of the Comédie française), Large in-4 oblong. Issues of the autograph (1865 and salon 1864) and letters, drawings and documents, sometimes annotated in the margins, pasted on sheets of paper following the issues of the magazine. Provenance: Album from the library of the Mieulet de Lombrail family (Paris and Lot-et-Garonne), probably composed by Alexis Jean Armand Mieulet de Lombrail (or a family member), a native of Tarn-et-Garonne, a young aristocrat whose family descended from the Garonne nobility. He attended a Catholic preparatory school in Versailles and espoused positivist ideas. He was a pupil of Auguste Comte.