"Les Français peints par eux-mêmes" (famous publication by p - Lot 377

"Les Français peints par eux-mêmes" (famous publication by publisher Léon Curmer, an exceptional social panorama of the 19th century, bringing together hundreds of writers and illustrators to paint a fresco of French types, from Paris, the provinces and the colonies, in 422 issues in 9 volumes, from the grocer painted by Balzac to the grisette, Jules JANIN (1804-1874, writer and critic of the Académie française) / Correspondence of 7 autograph letters signed, totaling 6 p in-8 (plus one page of address) and 1 p in-12, 1839-1844, to publisher Léon CURMER (1801-1870) about "Les Français peints par eux-mêmes" to which Janin collaborated / Enclosed: vintage portrait of Jules Janin on japon