LACRETELLE (Jean-Charles Dominique, known as the young). - Lot 185

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LACRETELLE (Jean-Charles Dominique, known as the young). - Lot 185
LACRETELLE (Jean-Charles Dominique, known as the young). Born in Metz. 1766-1855. French writer and politician. He was elected to the Académie française in 1811 and became its director in 1818. L.A.S. from his wife. Mâcon, August 24, 1859. 3 pages in-8. Mourning paper. BEAUTIFUL LETTER OF FRIENDSHIP "... You may be a little surprised to receive a letter from me after having had no reply to pages I have never forgotten..." begins Honorine Lacretelle. She explains: "In my misfortune, I have received nothing that would relieve me more deeply. Perhaps that's why I didn't reply to you; pain is so strange! We should always grasp the hand that wants to lift us up, but all too often we let it slip away...". She takes advantage of her son's wedding to renew contact with her correspondent... " Not long ago, Monsieur, I saw your name mentioned in the debates, and you can imagine how I hastened to read it. How much better we would become if we read more often like this. How your works charmed my husband Sir. It was for him the object of his most cherished meditations [...] How much we all have to thank you for, what pains in life, Sir, and I am overwhelmed by them [...] I know that the public no longer has the joy of hearing you, and that is a misfortune for them. How many distractions you prevented. How many sorrows you would lessen and how many pains you would learn to bear better...". A convinced royalist, Lacretelle joined forces with the Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt during Louis XVI's escape attempt in 1790. In September 1797, he was imprisoned for 23 months. Author of the Précis historique de la Révolution française (5 volumes published from 1801 to 1806), he directed Le Publiciste for a time, before being appointed by Napoleon in 1806 as a member of the bureau de la presse, then imperial censor in 1810. In 1814, he rallied to the Bourbons and fled to Ghent during the Hundred Days.
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