Paul de KOCK (1793-1871). Autograph manuscript signed, Un jeune homme charmant, [1840]; 242pages in-fol. in bronze-green half-percaline binding with title page (period binding). Complete manuscript of this novel, published by Barba in 1840. The manuscript, in brown ink, shows numerous erasures and corrections, with important marginal additions. A primitive title has been carefully cancelled: Un petit ramoneur. It is divided into four volumes of six chapters and some sixty pages each, each with its own title page and table of chapters: - TomeI. 1 Un cabriolet dans un chemin de traverse; 2 La société de Draveil; 3 Soirée chez le Colonel; 4 Danger des promenades du matin; 5 L'opinion d'un père; 6 Un déjeuner chez Arthur. - TomeII. 1 Un heureux hazard; 2 Un fils; 3 Bonheur caché - retour du Colonel; 4 L'été ramène les voisins; 5 Un exercice de gymnastique - le chien fidèle; 6 La forêt de Sénart. - TomeIII. 1 Delirium; 2 A wedding; 3 In Paris; 4 We meet again; 5 A little chimney sweep; 6 A rendezvous. - TomeIV. 1 Separation; 2 How Arthur looks for his son; 3 He takes advantage of everything; 4 An interview in the Bois de Vincennes; 5 Where we see Madame Passelacet again; 6 The seducer and the husband; 7 Conclusion.