Marie d'AGOULT (1805-1876). 2 L.A.S. (one signed M), Divonne les Bains (Ain) January 15, 1871, September 11 [1871], to Louis Tribert; 4 and 2 pages in-8, envelope. Tribert is a prisoner in Neisse, Silesia, Marie d'Agoult writes to him regularly and would like to visit him. Louis de Ronchaud is "very saddened" by this captivity. Then she gives him "q.q. private news: Me (always me in the first line), perfect health" and speaks about the people she meets in Divonne. "The great Jules of the Jura continues to protest by letters against our dictators". She sent him issues of the Journal de Genève. "One is in this place, very well informed and thinking, in the fashion of Berlin"... "I had not read the list of disasters without a certain anguish! It is very boring to never be safe in this world! She asked him for clarification on the V.R. story. She appreciated Littré's article, "one of his best", and spoke of Mme Lagardie "who executes Madame George Sand while waiting for her to execute Madame Daniel Stern! The fact is that these last erotic and mystical novels are very unpleasant". She knows nothing of the ministerial changes and believes in the Prussian alliance. Then she evokes the life in Divonne: "the music you know at the end of the village, on the side by which you arrived. The bird at the other end, on the side of Ravelloles. Between two, the popular, the encrinolized bourgeoisie, and the Countess... the Empress, it was said. The gardens of the castle open to the public, cakes, white wine with mouth what do you want? "; quarrel between the prefect and the council-general... A L.A.S. is attached, May 20, 1866, to Dr. Bertrand, medical inspector of water (2 pages in-8, envelope). It is Louis Tribert, bearer of this letter, who is charged to bring back news and to tell him "if you cured the lady of Rheims (melancholic). As for me, I am perhaps too cured, since I no longer have an excuse to go to Schlangenbad"... Plus a separate entry on the Agoult-Tribert correspondent.