Altarice Sébastiani, duchesse de CHOISEUL-PRASLIN (1807-1847 - Lot 200

Altarice Sébastiani, duchesse de CHOISEUL-PRASLIN (1807-1847) daughter of Marshal Sébastiani, she was murdered by her husband, the Duc de Choiseul-Praslin. Signed autograph manuscript, Extraits de littérature, 1822; small in-4 notebook, approx. 215 pages, hardback, black basane (Lejard stationer's label). Rare early manuscript. Notes on "the eloquence of the pulpit", notably on Bossuet; then on La Fontaine, Molière, Regnard, etc. Drafts of compositions. Numerous erasures and corrections. Attached is a L.A.S. "Sébastiani-Praslin", September 19 [1832], to a duchess; 2 pages in-8, address (recipient's name cut out), black wax seal of arms. She announces, on behalf of her father, the appointment of her correspondent's brother to the position of third embassy secretary in Vienna. She is happy to please him, "especially after what you told me the last time I had the pleasure of meeting you. Alas, I hardly foresaw that day that the misfortune which has befallen me since, was threatening me!"...