[Victor HUGO] / 1°) Miltiades CANELLOPOULO,Greek journalist - Lot 514

[Victor HUGO] / 1°) Miltiades CANELLOPOULO,Greek journalist and patriot, editor-in-chief of the weeklyL'Indépendance Hellénique] / Autograph letter signed, 2 1/4 pages in-8, Athens, March 21, 1868: "I hasten to acknowledge receipt of your letter of February 25, and thank you very much for the sympathy and interest you have shown for my newspaper and, above all, for my country. I was certain of this in advance, for Greece always sees in you and your noble colleagues the successors of the illustrious men who lent her their support and enlightenment, and who have a second time illustrated her name. I thank you, Sir, once again for this noble solicitude for the prosperity of my homeland. You have been kind enough to give me your valuable advice on the questions I should prefer to deal with in Independence. I cannot express my gratitude enough. You have indeed shown me a path, the only one that leads to the realization of our national hearts, namely the two issues that it is most important for me to deal with, and which are truly great and vital for my country. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to take a firm step into them, which means that I would not fail to deal with them to the best of my ability, if I were certain of being able to deal with them thoroughly enough and with the breadth of vision they require. Be that as it may, I fear that one of these two questions, that concerning the treaties of 1856, is beyond the ordinary abilities of obscure writers, and that above all my work or that of my collaborators lacks that authority which is the prerogative of illustrious men who know how to find those invincible arguments for which one forces, as it were, the conviction of the reader, and whose social position gives their word great weight.If I could hope that my country, in the difficult circumstances in which it finds itself today, could obtain the distinguished honor of having you defend its cause in the columns of Independence, how grateful I would be to you for the great service you would have enabled me to render it, and how many more rights would you not thereby acquire to the recognition of Greece itself! [...]" [VH's correspondence includes several letters he wrote at this time, in 1868, to Canellopoulo - at least one of which, dated December 19, was reproduced in L'Indépendance Helléniqueen 1868] - 2°) Eugène CAUCHY(1802-1877, jurist, registrar of the Chambre des Pairs)/ Autograph letter signed, 1 p petit in-4, on the letterhead of the Chambres de Pairs, September 8, 1846, to Victor Hugo, thanking "Monsieur le Vicomte V. Hugo" for his interest in his work. Hugo" for his interest in his work "Les Précédents de la Cour des Pairs".