ALS in French, one page, 4.75 x 7.5, no date. Handwritten letter by the illustrious author, about religion and politics, and mentioning his most important play, 'Hernani.' In part (translated): "In a volume entitled Review of the Latin Races (30 September 1850), I read what the following: ‘I want the Pope in Rome and Charlemagne in Paris. And why not? Is it not the great democratic solution admirably put in verses by a poet which our century extols as the greatest among all poets? Read Hernani again, my dear colleague, and you will understand that Victor Hugo has once written to me: Everything which is not Catholicism and Monarchism is nothing but crime, daydreaming and fallacy.’ After this citation, only one word. These two lines, purported to be mine, have not been written by me. This bizarre attribution is, I think, the result of some mistake, and the author of this mistake will certainly very soon acknowledge it. Otherwise, I will challenge him to show the letter of which he writes about." In fine condition, with a few small tears and creases.
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