BALZAC, Honoré de (1799-1850). Autograph notes on diplomacy and corruption in politics, n.p., n.d., one page, approximately 110 x 155mm (torn from a larger leaf, tear in top right corner not touching text); and BALZAC, Eveline-Constance-Victoire (1804-1882, formerly Countess Hanska). Autograph letter signed ('Eve de Balzac') to [Hippolyte] Souverain (Balzac's publisher), n.p., n.d. [circa 1851-52], 4 pages, 8vo .
BALZAC, Honoré de (1799-1850). Autograph notes on diplomacy and corruption in politics, n.p., n.d., one page, approximately 110 x 155mm (torn from a larger leaf, tear in top right corner not touching text); and BALZAC, Eveline-Constance-Victoire (1804-1882, formerly Countess Hanska). Autograph letter signed ('Eve de Balzac') to [Hippolyte] Souverain (Balzac's publisher), n.p., n.d. [circa 1851-52], 4 pages, 8vo . 'Les peuples anciens, ne connaissant point l'art de la diplomatie, qui de nos jours fait la force des rois ... notre art politique fait de l'Europe une république'. Balzac's closely written notes were probably intended for a newspaper article. His widow vigorously upbraids Souverain for appearing more interested in commercial considerations than in Balzac's literary reputation, and for resorting to subterfuge in his dealings, 'Jusqu'à présent les premiers essais des grands maîtres étaient considérés avec plus de respect parfois, que leur oeuvres les plus finies & jusqu'à ce que le mépris que vous manifestez pour ce que vous nommez "les ébauches douteuses échappées à la main du maître" ait acquis force de loi. Vous permettez au monde éclairé d'avoir là dessus d'autres convictions que les vôtres & à moi de m'y soumettre'. Balzac had sold the rights of his early 'pre-Balzacian' novels to Souverain in 1837; they were advertised as the juvenilia of the most fertile of modern novelists (Graham Robb. Balzac , 1994, page 395). Eveline de Balzac, formerly Countess Hanska, was Balzac's great love from 1833. Although widowed in 1836, she consented to marry him only in March 1850, leaving her estates in Poland and moving to Paris, where Balzac died shortly afterwards. She was to spend the rest of her life there and supervised the 1853 edition of the Oeuvres Complètes and the 24-volume edition by Levy in 1869-76. (3)
BALZAC, Honoré de (1799-1850). Autograph notes on diplomacy and corruption in politics, n.p., n.d., one page, approximately 110 x 155mm (torn from a larger leaf, tear in top right corner not touching text); and BALZAC, Eveline-Constance-Victoire (1804-1882, formerly Countess Hanska). Autograph letter signed ('Eve de Balzac') to [Hippolyte] Souverain (Balzac's publisher), n.p., n.d. [circa 1851-52], 4 pages, 8vo .
BALZAC, Honoré de (1799-1850). Autograph notes on diplomacy and corruption in politics, n.p., n.d., one page, approximately 110 x 155mm (torn from a larger leaf, tear in top right corner not touching text); and BALZAC, Eveline-Constance-Victoire (1804-1882, formerly Countess Hanska). Autograph letter signed ('Eve de Balzac') to [Hippolyte] Souverain (Balzac's publisher), n.p., n.d. [circa 1851-52], 4 pages, 8vo . 'Les peuples anciens, ne connaissant point l'art de la diplomatie, qui de nos jours fait la force des rois ... notre art politique fait de l'Europe une république'. Balzac's closely written notes were probably intended for a newspaper article. His widow vigorously upbraids Souverain for appearing more interested in commercial considerations than in Balzac's literary reputation, and for resorting to subterfuge in his dealings, 'Jusqu'à présent les premiers essais des grands maîtres étaient considérés avec plus de respect parfois, que leur oeuvres les plus finies & jusqu'à ce que le mépris que vous manifestez pour ce que vous nommez "les ébauches douteuses échappées à la main du maître" ait acquis force de loi. Vous permettez au monde éclairé d'avoir là dessus d'autres convictions que les vôtres & à moi de m'y soumettre'. Balzac had sold the rights of his early 'pre-Balzacian' novels to Souverain in 1837; they were advertised as the juvenilia of the most fertile of modern novelists (Graham Robb. Balzac , 1994, page 395). Eveline de Balzac, formerly Countess Hanska, was Balzac's great love from 1833. Although widowed in 1836, she consented to marry him only in March 1850, leaving her estates in Poland and moving to Paris, where Balzac died shortly afterwards. She was to spend the rest of her life there and supervised the 1853 edition of the Oeuvres Complètes and the 24-volume edition by Levy in 1869-76. (3)
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