Sales catalogue 449: Maggs Bros

Date:
1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/28
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 449: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    280 THE LOVE LETTERS OF THE AUTHOR OF ‘“‘ FAUBLAS,’’ TO THE HEROINE. LOUVET DE COUVRAI (JEAN BAPTISTE, 1760-1797). Famous Novelist. mithor or ° faublas:*’ ASERIES- OF LOVE LETTERS FROM LOUVET: DE COUVRAI TO MADEMOISELLE MESTAIS, AND TO MADAME. CHOLET- LODOISKA,’’ Pe OO His SISTER, TOGETHER WITH A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM Mun CHOLET TO MLLE: MESTAIS. In all 27 Letters, dating from 1789 to 1810. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. LXVII.). | £225 These unique and most remarkable Letters from and to one of the greatest of French Novelists, comprise:— (A) THIRTEEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS IN FRENGH, seven of which are signed, to MADEMOISELLE MESTAIS, whom he familiarly calls his wife. 2% pp., 4to, 8vo and 12m0. .1780 to-1792. Unique unpublished letters of the Master of French erotic literature with marginal comments in the autograph of his son, by Lodoiska. They are addressed to Mlle. Mestais, in whose house lived Lodoiska, the model of his Sopoie in “* Faublas *’; the latter: had left’ her husband, M. ‘Cholet, a’ rich Paris jeweller, in order to become Louvet de Couvrai’s mistress. He married her later after having divorced his first wife. ‘“ma femme ”’ This highly interesting collection of fantastic letters to gives a remarkable insight in the author’s personal and political ideas. He repeatedly assures Mlle. Mestais, that after his mistress he loves her best. In a letter of August 8th, 1791, he speaks of the counter-revolution which endangers him to be imprisoned, for which case Mlle. Mestais had offered him a refuge in her home. (Continued over)