THE VARIETY Literary review N° 1, April 1, 1840-n° 12, March 1, 1841, Rennes, Imprimerie de A. Marteville, Editor in chief : Leconte de Lisle. Texts by Édouard Alix, Charles Bénézit, Émile Langlois, Leconte de Lisle (who also publishes under the pseudonym of A. Léonce), Alexandre Nicolas, Julien Rouffet, Édouard Turquety. Complete collection. 12 numbers in 12 deliveries in-8 stapled. The covers of n° 4 and 7 are missing. Handwritten notes of Vasseur (5 ff.). Joint: - 1 L.A.S. from the Bibliothèque municipale de Rennes to André Vasseur (February 1970); - 1 notice on Leconte de Lisle (newspaper clipping, 1892). Journal founded by Leconte de Lisle when he was a law student. "[...] some imprudent articles, a too fervent homage to Lamennais, among others, frightened the bourgeois public and the subscriptions were not renewed for 1841. So much so that in March, the review will have to cease to appear " (Pierre Flottes, Le Poète Leconte de Lisle, Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1929). Of a very great rarity.