Auguste DEMESMAY, nicknamed the ‘Salt MP’, fought like a tiger during the debates in the House of Commons on the salt tax between 1845 and 1847.
SULLY-PRUDHOMME criticises TAINE’s aesthetic determinism. A manuscript from the library of Alfred CORTOT, one of the famous pianist’s aesthetic inspirations.
Rognures, a collection of poems by Louis BOUILHET, most of which were previously unpublished, compiled in a handwritten and signed notebook that belonged to Gustave FLAUBERT, his alter ego, was then lent to Maxime DU CAMP, and was finally owned by George SAND.
The activities of the consulates in Alexandria, Candia and Tripoli in Syria during the reign of Louis XV. Valuable correspondence from F. J. Flamenq, Chancellor of the Levant.
