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[BOURGET (Paul)].
8 letters addressed to Bourget by:
Barrès (Mauritius): L.A.S. Charmes sur Moselle (n.d.), 5 p. pet. in-8°: he is now at Charmes where he has made good progress with a small book and prepared various works. He cannot see it because he has to write his speech in mid-September and the room to be reintegrated in mid-October. He talks about Maurice Ajam's bad project of a conspiracy that strikes all his books: "I remind you of Mr. Ajam's proposal. Mr. Ajam wants to impose a tax of 10% of the market value of the books of authors that have fallen into the public domain". In his mind, this tax should lessen the competition which some dead people make with the living"; he sent to a very dear Benedictine friend "all your critical work" and described their exchange in the preface by the Duke of Orleans; he visited Cardinal Mathieu who is ill, he liked him very much and knows that he wants to live, and to get well; Capus (Alfred): L.A.S. (n.d.), 1 p. 1/3 in-8°, heading of Le Figaro: interesting political letter on Clemenceau, the socialists, cachin...; Mathieu (François Désiré cardinal): L.A.S. Rome 9 February 1902, 4 p. pet. in-8°: Cardinal Mathieu answers Bourget about a request for a quite "extraordinary" dispensation which can be obtained by the Congregation of the Holy Office and requires certain conditions which he defines and adds "I am very happy that a Roman congregation has collaborated in your novel whose beginning is very dear to me.... ";
Palaeologist (Mauritius): L.A.S. à " Mon cher maitre et ami " Paris 27 January 1923, 2 p. in-8°: Paléologue asks Bourget if his candidacy for the Academy is opportune; Perraud (Adolphe Louis) bishop of Autun: L.A.S. Autun 23 May 1894, 4p. in-8°: "I have read neither the oldest of your works, those which would perhaps raise the strongest objections on my part; nor the most recent, which are said to be the best. From what I have been told by very competent judges, I conclude that there is consoling progress, not
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