Description

RARE FIRST EDITION.
This long poem in XXXII parts won the Guy Foundation poetry prize for 1844.

AUTOGRAPH LETTER  :

Lawyer Chabart
Tribute from the author

Autograph correction made by the author to his name, incorrectly printed as "J.-M. Bebert".

"Saint Francis de Sales was born on 21 August 1567. His life and works were the books with which my father taught me to read. With the memories of the time, I measured these few verses, written as they were thought, as they came, without art or pretension."

Ccfr: 2 libraries: Chambéry, Tolbiac (BnF)