[Gustave FLAUBERT] - SAINT-RENE-TAILLANDIER (René Taillandie - Lot 249

[Gustave FLAUBERT] - SAINT-RENE-TAILLANDIER (René Taillandier dit, 1817-1879, writer for the Académie française and politician, he was Minister of National Education) / Autograph letter signed, 3 p in-8, Montpellier, December 9, 1862, to François Buloz, director of the "Revue des Deux Mondes" (of which he was a major contributor): he has revised his article on the Parga Affair and expands on its details and "You proposed that I do an article on Mr. Flaubert and you were to send me the volume of "Salammbô", I have not received it, I am however quite ready to tell the truth about this literature, "Madame Bovary" and "Salammbô" (as far as I can judge the latter from newspaper articles) are two different aspects of the same inspiration, of the same school, the medical and materialistic school" ("Salammbô" had appeared 2 weeks earlier).