ESTAUNIÉ, Édouard - Lot 79

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ESTAUNIÉ, Édouard - Lot 79
ESTAUNIÉ, Édouard (Dijon, 1862 - Paris, 1942) Polytechnic engineer, novelist, member of the Académie française. Autograph letter signed "M. Henri Ferrari" [pseudonym], addressed to M. Saul d'Estrée. Paris, November 28, 1891. 1 horizontal page in-8. Letter of an editorial nature, in which Édouard Estaunié, under the pseudonym "Henri Ferrari", courteously declines publication of an article proposed to the Revue Bleue. On behalf of the magazine's management, he thanked his correspondent for sending a study on the "deportation of public women", while indicating that "the subject did not seem to him to fall within the scope of the Revue". The polite but firm wording illustrates the editorial usages of the intellectual press at the end of the XIXᵉ century. This document sheds light on the editorial practices and selection criteria of the major political and literary journals, while also testifying to Estaunié's activity in the journalistic field alongside his career as an engineer and writer. An interesting piece for the history of the press and implicit editorial censorship at the end of the XIXᵉ century.
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