[Flora TRISTAN, 1803-1844, Franco-Peruvian socialist writer - Lot 183

[Flora TRISTAN, 1803-1844, Franco-Peruvian socialist writer and feminist, grandmother of painter Paul Gauguin] - Edouard BOUVET de La Maisonneuve (1784-1843, journalist and director of the "Revue coloniale") / Correspondence of 4 signed autograph letters to Flora Tristan, totalling 10 p in-8 plus 3 address pages with postage, 1838-39: he met her at the publication of her book "Pérégrinations d'une paria" ("I saw you for the first time for half an hour, which seemed like a few minutes, this conversation, this sight, the idea of your pretty pariah inspired me to start an article for our review"), he writes his biographical note and wants to read his novel "Mephis", he has just learned of the outcome of the trial and hopes "that your tranquility thus assured will restore to his existence so horribly troubled that which he has lacked for so long, close to the angel who is your daughter" [n.b.: Flora, married at a very young age, was persecuted by a violent husband, and had to live in hiding with her daughter, whom he kidnapped several times. He had just been sentenced to 20 years in prison for incest on his daughter and stabbing Flora; his daughter Aline was to be Paul Gauguin's mother), "he complains about his illustrator, from whom he had commissioned a vignette for his own novel, "it depicted my visit to the tomb of St. Helena when I took the willow branch in spite of the English officer".