PREVOST-PARADOL, Lucien-Anatole - Lot 170

PREVOST-PARADOL, Lucien-Anatole Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol L.A.S. "Prévost-Paradol" to a friend. S.l.n.d. 3 pages in-8. Letter engraved with his cipher. Interesting letter relating to the world of the press and Débats, in which Prévost-Paradol discusses the publication of a note addressed by his correspondent: "Yesterday's Débats published the note you sent me." He then complains about the prolonged absence of a collaborator: "As for my colleague [...], he never comes to the paper, and for a long time now he hasn't sent us anything..." Ever mindful of the newspaper's editorial operations, he proposes a practical solution, suggesting that Jules Brisson be the one to do it: "If you'd like to write - or have Mr. J. Brisson write - about fifteen lines on his chinoiseries and send them to me, I'll arrange them, sign them and have them inserted in the paper." The letter ends with a particularly warm expression of friendship: "You are quite right, my dear friend, to count on me as I count on you for great and small things alike." A fine letter that bears witness to journalistic practices and networks of influence in the late Second Empire. It displays the elegant, conciliatory and witty tone that made Prévost-Paradol's reputation, a major figure in the Journal des Débats and author of La France nouvelle (1868), a work emblematic of liberal Orleanism. Good condition. Correspondence folds. Very legible manuscript.