VARIN (Charles VOIRIN, dit Victor)

French playwright (Nancy (54) 1798 - Paris 1869). 9 autograph LETTERS signed between 1840 and 1860 to his dear DESNOYERS, Mr. LUBIN Bld du temple, Mr. BECK Éditeur, Mr. ROUSSEAU Régisseur, Mr. ARNOL, Mr. LUBIZE, etc... "My Dear DESNOYERS. I have taken it upon myself in time, at your request, to report on the Vaudevilles of the Théâtre de la Porte St Martin, and I am surprised to read today in the newspaper, an article that is not mine on the Pièce d'Urbain le Manant, even though mine had to be given to you. If you have given this theatre to another Editor, it seems to me that it would have been easy and appropriate to inform me of this change. But it is better not to be embarrassed, it is the courtesy of the CENTURY. Anyway, I have a request to make to you when I get back. Instead of being paid article by article, which, thanks to cuts, trimmings, reductions and assumptions, is brought to zero. As a result, I would like, to escape the Arithmetic of the CENTURY, to have a fixed line on which I can count. I'll leave it to you to determine.... April 20th".