Émile ERCKMANN (1822-1899) and Alexandre CHATRIAN (1826-1890). Autograph manuscript signed, Les Amoureux de Catherine; 12 pages and a half in-4. Les Amoureux de Catherine appeared in serial form in Le Boulevard on October 12, 19 and 26, 1862; we have here the second serial, written by Erckmann with numerous erasures and corrections in red ink by Chatrian. The action is set in "the inn of the Carp, at Catherine Koenig's, in the village of Neudorf, near Huningue", in 1812.