Alphonse de LAMARTINE (1790-1869). 2 autograph manuscripts, with autograph title signed : Discours et réplique, [1846-1850]; 1, 2 and 10 oblong pages in-8, mounted on tabs with engraved portrait and bound in one oblong volume in-8, decorated paper boards (Yseux sr de Simier). Important fragments of political speeches. February 3, 1846, on the question of the Orient and Lebanon. "Today, the cry of the blood of the Druze and Maronites, the smoke of burning towns, attest to the urgency of national aid to a French people at heart, European in religion, whose virtues and attachment your travelers and negociants in Marseille and Provence have appreciated a thousand times over. You are allowing a population to perish that can be characterized by one word: the Helvetia of the East"... May 23, 1850, on universal suffrage. You must erase the memory of the "execrable days of June [...] Show that you are no longer the People of May 15 or June 23, but the people of February 27 who tamed demagoguery, and the people of April 16 and those immortal elections of May 1848 which unanimously saved and founded the national civilized regular republic! irreproachable like your hearts and your rights! From now on, renounce all thoughts of violence, disarm your enemies, if you have any, of your wrongs and of the fear they have of the People! This is how you will have conquered by your own defeat, and how you will ensure your definitive victory by reserving Justice and Patience as your only weapons! Justice, which gives opinion, and Patience, which gives time - these two invincible elements of the Peoples' cause!"... Former Daniel Sickles collection (XV, n° 6456).