Description

DUMMY COLLECTION, CUT OUT FROM THE PRESS, OF FEUILLETONS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1839 AND 1840 in Le Siècle and La Presse, including the first publication of Alexandre Dumas's "Impressions de Voyage" in Belgium. It comprises three episodes of 3 pp. each, published between 13 August and 12 September 1840 in the feuilleton of the Century.
It was in 1838, on his way to the Rhineland, that Dumas stopped off in Belgium. On the recommendation of Ferdinand d'Orléans, he met Belgian King Leopold I, who invited him to attend the jubilee celebrations in the city of Malines. Dumas wrote about it: I think that the whole of Belgium is personified by the festival that Mechelen is giving today. A mystery from the Middle Ages that people come to see by rail! (Zimmermann, Alexandre Dumas the Great, p. 366-68).
Hamel Méthé, author of Dumas dictionaryconsiders these Travel impressions as a job".of capital importance in Dumas' work, not to say the central pivot of his oeuvre"The writer was keen to study the field, and said: "There's one thing I don't know how to do: write a book or a drama about places I haven't seen." (Dumas dictionary, p. 441)

We also note the first publication of "Léo Burckart, drama in 5 acts", a collaboration between Gérard de Nerval and Dumas.reworked by De Nerval and published under the name "M. Gérard" in La Presse in 9 episodes between 24 September and 4 October 1839. Premiered in April 1839, this political drama was inspired by an excursion to Germany (Le Quérard, p. 69)

Bound in contemporary style.

The collection, which opens with a (partial) handwritten summary, also includes :
"Le neveu de Mercier" (Roger de Beauvoir), complete in 7 episodes in Le Siècle.
"Le chevalier de Morsan" (Francis Wey) , complete in 5 episodes in Le Siècle.
"L'incendiaire de l'Aveyron" (Elie Berthet), complete in 7 episodes in Le Siècle.
"Le sercret de la confession" (Alexandre de Lavergne) , complete in 9 episodes in Le Siècle.
"Louisa Dalmar (Baron de Bazancourt), complete in 5 episodes in La Presse.
"La robe et l'épée" (Alexandre de Lavergne), complete in 7 episodes in La Presse.
"Hélène. Histoire d'une loge d'opéra" (Baron de Bazancourt), complete in 4 episodes in La Presse.
"Mademoiselle de Roan" (Pitre-Chevalier) complete in 4 episodes in La Presse.
"Souvenirs intimes du temps de l'Empire" (Emile Marco de Saint-Hilaire), complete in 4 episodes in La Presse.
"Arrivée de la belle-poule" (Jules Pelletan), complete in 2 episodes in La Presse.
"Le maréchal de Biron à Fontainebleau' (J. Vatout), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"L'admirable lettre qui sert de préface au nouveau volume de vers de M. de Lamartine", complete in 1 article in La Presse (missing a few words at the foot due to cutting).
"Un bal à Anvers en 1811" (Charlotte de Sohr), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"Le daguerréotype au Harem" (Pitre-Chevalier), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"A bull run in 1833" (Henri Cornille), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"Le Saint-Pierre à Rome" (J. Crétineau Joly), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"The Emperor in Antwerp" (Charlotte de Sohr), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"Au jubilé de Rubens" (Henry Berthoud) complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"Mazagran, journée des 3, 4, 5 et 6 février 1840" (Chapuys de Montlaville) complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"La Santa" (J. Crétineau Joly), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"Mort du sultant Mahmoud" (Henri Cornille), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"Souvenirs historiques des résidences royales de France" (J. Vatout), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"Abd-el-kader" (Genty de Bussy), complete in 1 article in La Presse. Misprint on p. 2.
"Le Glandier" (Victor Herbin), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"La Margrave" (Countess Dash), complete in 4 episodes in La Presse.
"Le lieutenant Rocquevert" (Frédéric Thomas), complete in 7 episodes in La Presse.
"Mademoiselle de Senneville" (Baron de Bazancourt), complete in 11 episodes in La Presse.
"Un mariage à l'entrepôt de Nantes" (Dunstan de Kerlac), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"Les rues de Paris" (Victor Herbin), complete in 11 episodes in La Presse.
"La duchesse de Nusseldorff" (G. de Garat), complete in 1 article in La Presse.
"La duchesse de Chevreuse" (Clémence Robert), complete in 5 episodes in La Presse.
"Fêtes et souvenirs du congrès de Vienne" (Comte A. De La Garde), complete in 8 episodes in La Presse.