BIBLIOGRAPHER - PHILOLOGIST - SCIENTIFIC... - Lot 9 - Giquello

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BIBLIOGRAPHER - PHILOLOGIST - SCIENTIFIC... - Lot 9 - Giquello
BIBLIOGRAPHER - PHILOLOGIST - SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHER JOHANNEAU Eloi (1770-1851). Set of 2 autograph letters signed and an autograph bluette signed to Monsieur Beuchot [Adrien-jean-Quentin (1777-1851)] and Monsieur François de Barbé-Marbois, Montreuil, September 28, 1823 and Paris, May 27, 1830. 10 ½ pp. in-8. On editions of the works of Rabelais, on September 28, he thanks Beuchot "I received my dear and learned colleague, the 3 articles that you sent me (...) I also thank you for the two printing errors that you pointed out to me (...)" he then evokes his readings and the works to be carried out; on May 27, he thanks Barbé-Marbois "(....) to kindly read the Rabelais to which I have attached a historical commentary and philological notes, and to beg you to honor me with your critical observations (...) You will perhaps find your Diogenes at Sinope in this chapter (...)" and he attaches "(...) a bluette by Rabelais (...)) a bluette by Rabelais (...) " this bluette begins with " As long as one will see in the history - Of the French shine the name, - Rabelais will make the glory, - the right pride of Chinon - In him I see Epicure, (...) The sotise, the imposture, - Excited only his gaiety (...) ". One joint : PARIS Paulin (1800-1881). Autograph letter signed, Paris, March 22, 1847. 2 pp. in-8. Interesting letter dealing with an autograph of Rabelais. Some specialists of Rabelais, like Paulin Paris, question the authenticity of a letter. He announces "I thank you very much for the new testimonies that you are willing to add to those that justify our incredulity. Our kind friend Paul Lacroix, has obviously been much too hasty in proclaiming his discovery: he could not doubt that it was not immediately examined with a magnifying glass by the people who keep the Rabelaisian cult. (...)" He points out certain problems of identification of Rabelais' writing and asks his correspondent for help. "How will Lacroix, I ask you Sir, admit that Rabelais in his autographs has placed a parenthesis of this kind? (...) ".
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