Marie d'AGOULT (1805-1876). L.A. et L.A.S., [1857] et seq.; 4 pages and 1 page and a half in-8. Nice 13 November [1857], to "Christina mia", his daughter Claire de Charnacé. She humorously recounts the return home of his "Corsican Corsica", and the continuation of his trip to Nice, which she does not appreciate: "This road to the cornice is of indescribable beauty. But Nice! what an ugly and silly place! and that the most philistine stupidity is still surpassed by the choice of such a place of pleasure [...] without greenery, without horizons, without walks! only one way, the English way, powdery, at the edge of the pebbles of an insipid sea! "... However, she is thinking of staying there and writing her Florentine letters... She evokes various people, Louis de Ronchaud, Eugène Sue, and especially "the young Mrs de K.". [her daughter Blandine], whom she predicts will harm the political attitude of her husband [Émile Ollivier]... Saturday: Sending a drama written by "a beautiful young girl from Israel, eloquent, it is said, and which caused a great sensation in Germany. I fear that she lacks dramatic sense in the strict sense of the word; the critics in Berlin reproach her for being already intoxicated by her successes and having become inaccessible to the truth"...