Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE (1804-1869). L.S., May 31, 1865, [to Joseph-Louis Trouessart]; the letter is dictated to his secretary Jules Troubat; 1 page and a quarter in-8. About Galileo [Joseph-Louis Trouessart (1806-1870), professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Poitiers, had published Galileo, his scientific mission, life and trial (Potiers, 1865). He received his Galilée, "and your few words in reply to Philarète Chasles. I thank you for having given me the opportunity to educate myself thoroughly on this great and interesting question. I admired the lightness of these gentlemen; I'm glad I was at least wary. I had studied what Mr. Biot had written on the subject; I knew this old scholar. Towards the end of his life, he had completely returned to the religious opinions that imposed their limits on him. His heart, which had never beaten, was cold about Galileo's persecutions; he was busy diminishing them and watering them down. This distinguished man had no fire in him and was no longer committed to the philosophical high road. As for M. Camille Flammarion, he is a young man who aims and sacrifices for success, a skilled trainer in the sense that he believes the current goes"... We enclose 4 L.A.S. and 1 L.S. to his friend the librarian Antoine Rochebillière; and 2 other L.A.S. to E. de Monglave and J. Saint-Amour.