Alfred NETTEMENT (1805–1869). 20 letters, 1841–1868, most of - Lot 385

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Alfred NETTEMENT (1805–1869). 20 letters, 1841–1868, most of - Lot 385
Alfred NETTEMENT (1805–1869). 20 letters, 1841–1868, most of them to the historian Aristide Guilbert (one to Charles Asselineau); 402 pages, in-8 and in-4. Mainly concerning Nettement’s collaboration on Guilbert’s *History of the Cities of France*. “The last time I had the pleasure of meeting you, you told me that you would write to me officially to inform me of the amount allocated for Autun, which would give me the opportunity to ask you to convey to your publishers, the comments I felt I ought to make to you personally. […] The last time I saw you, you mentioned 120 francs per sheet; when you came to ask for my collaboration several years ago, you had offered me 150 francs for each sheet […]. It was only upon receiving the first installments, therefore, that I was able to determine the size of the sheets. I then saw that the work was published in quarto format, with eight pages per sheet, and that the sheets were also numbered. I naturally concluded that the price of 150 francs was allocated to each eight-page sheet […]. This price of 150 francs did not seem substantial given the lengthy and difficult work required by the arduous task I had undertaken, for it involved writing the history of a town on which no reasonable work exists […]. If I had believed otherwise, despite my keen desire to please you, I could not have agreed to devote a month and a half of diligent work to exceptional research on a specific aspect of local history, studies unrelated to my other duties, which interrupted them and caused me real harm, without leading to anything, since my contribution was limited to the history of a single town” (August 26, 1846)... Etc. Enclosed are two handwritten letters from Francis Nettement to Charles Asselineau (June 12, 1850) and to Lubis, editor of *L’Union*, regarding the defense of the Legitimist press.
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