Pierre-Jean de BERANGER (1780-1857, chansonnier) / Autograph - Lot 161

Pierre-Jean de BERANGER (1780-1857, chansonnier) / Autograph letter signed, 2 p in-8 plus address page with postage, Passy, December 14, 1843, to poet-worker Jean-Louis GONZALLE of Reims (shoemaker, 18715-1879): beautiful letter of encouragement on receipt of his volume of poems, "when one makes such verses, one should not fear to see them badly received", "may such a remarkable talent always be in the position that fate has made you, a source of courage and consolation", "one is happy to see the so difficult virtues of the worker become a diversion from what was for too long the share of the idle classes alone", "poetry has only to gain from this product of our revolution", "the people think and you prove it better than anyone, Monsieur, by the number of ideas that are born in your veins" / Joint: period portrait in business card format