[Victor HUGO] - Charles DUCROS (b. 1810, conseiller de préfe - Lot 517

[Victor HUGO] - Charles DUCROS (b. 1810, conseiller de préfecture, archivist and poet) / Correspondence of 3 autograph letters signed from to Victor Hugo, from Guéret, in 1837, totaling 7 p in-8 plus 3 address pages with postage, one of the letters bears Victor Hugo's autograph r for reply: in January 1837, he expressed his amazement at the conduct of the Académie, which had proven itself to be a foolish body, and said that he was better off alone than the forty of them locked up in this literary mire immortalized by their stupidity, after continuing to castigate the Académie française, However, he urges Hugo to continue running, "It's not the habit, the sword, the armchair and the glory that I see in the Académie, I see for you the dawn of a political career, when you're there you'll galvanize this extinct body, and if there are Viennet, Dupty and Etienne de Jouy (hostile to Hugo), there are also friends in Chateaubriand and Lamartine - In June n1837, he recalls the Fêtes de Versailles, where Hugo chatted for a long time with the Duchesse d'Orléans (the new one, who had just married Fernand d'Orléans), he asks whether Goethe's pupil is still to be found under the princess, and to what extent poetry can germinate in royal hearts; he speaks of the forthcoming release of Hugo's Voix intérieures - On August 11, 1837, he comes to report the death of a friend, a young author whom he had introduced to Hugo [n.b.: the BNF holds a letter from Charles Ducrot to Victor Hugo, on which Hugo drew a pen-and-ink sketch].