Beautiful set of 80 signed letters addressed to Édouard Monnais (1798 - 1868), music critic, director of the Paris Opera and imperial commissioner to the lyric theatres and the Conservatoire.

Between 1835 and 1860, in the midst of the Romantic period, Édouard Monnais was at the centre of the French music scene; a friend of Berlioz, close to Lisztof Delacroixof Gautierof Gounodhe frequented assiduously Auber, Meyerbeer, Scribe and Thomas.