FUNCK-BRENTANO (Frantz). - Lot 116

FUNCK-BRENTANO (Frantz). (Munsbach Castle, 1862 – Paris, 1947) Historian, archivist and paleographer, curator of the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal (1885–1928), member of the Institut (Académie des sciences morales et politiques, 1928). A collection of 8 signed autograph letters and 1 signed autograph postcard, addressed to Henri Quentin (known as Paul d’Estrée). New York, Montfermeil, and Paris, December 1904–December 1911. Formats: in-8 and in-12; some on letterhead (Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal; The Lenox Library, Buffalo). Important literary and editorial correspondence A fine collection of letters spanning several years, documenting the intellectual and professional relationship between Frantz Funck-Brentano and the writer and historian Henri Quentin, known as Paul d’Estrée, with whom he collaborated notably on *Les Nouvellistes* (Paris, Hachette, 1905) and *Figaro et ses devanciers*. This correspondence, of great interest for the history of publishing and the press in the early 20th century, offers direct insight into the production, distribution, and reception of historical and literary works of the time.