Alexandre de BEAUHARNAIS (1760-1794) general and deputy, he was suspended and guillotined; his widow Joséphine married Bonaparte. 2 autograph notebooks, Florence; 16 and 24 pages in-12 sewn (plus blank ff.), in pencil. Notebooks of a trip to Florence: visit of the main monuments, churches, convents, palaces and especially museums... He comments with judgment and taste on the works of art that mark him, and describes them in detail... - He notices a portrait of Dante, and begins with the visit of the Campanile: "The tower of the bells in the cathedral. 418 steps. It is from there that one can judge the situation of Florence in a valley of which it occupies all the width [...] this sight is delicious"; then the church Saint-Laurent: "tomb of Cosme, executed by Michel-Ange. The day is only beauty. The night is superb, beautiful attitude, a little roughness perhaps, and the nipples too spread ". He then visited the Basilica of the Annunziata: he noted the bas-reliefs of John of Bologna, and in the cloister this fresco "a Holy Family by André Del Sarte [...] or Madonna del Sacco, In the convent of Santa Maria Novella: "There is a pharmacy where they sell balms, ointments and essences that have a great reputation. Shopping for 52 pauli"... Palazzo Ricardi: he describes the different paintings he liked; at the cloister of the Brotherhood of St. John the Baptist, he is enthusiastic about the frescoes of Andrea del Sarto on the life of the saint; at Santa Croce, he describes Michelangelo's tomb, etc. The second notebook is devoted to a visit to the Uffizi, beginning with the Tribune, where he describes in detail 5 statues, "The charming Venus de Medici", and then the numerous paintings to which he devotes several pages: "Behind the Venus is that of Titian figure of natural size, correctly drawn, beautiful, voluptuous", etc... He then visits the "Room of Flemish paintings", then the "Room of portraits, 122 portraits", of which he notes those he liked; then the "Room of painters", idem; then "the vestibule of the torso", the "Room of the hermaphrodite", the "Room of Niobe", etc. and to finish the Gallery...