[Charles BAUDELAIRE] - Claude-Alphonse BAUDELAIRE... - Lot 12 - Vermot et Associés

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[Charles BAUDELAIRE] - Claude-Alphonse BAUDELAIRE... - Lot 12 - Vermot et Associés
[Charles BAUDELAIRE] - Claude-Alphonse BAUDELAIRE (1805-1862, Half-brother of the poet Charles Baudelaire, both were sons of Joseph-François Baudelaire, Claude-Alphonse was an Examining Magistrate at the Court of Fontainebleau) / 1°) Interesting document: BROUILLON with erasures and corrections of a letter of denunciation towards Claude-Alphonse Baudelaire, 2 p large in-4, written in the hand of the Prefect of Seine-et-Marne Louis-Charles-Marie de Vincent (1792-1872) to the Minister of Justice, from Fontainebleau on May 26, 1851 - [The historian Claude Pichois, a specialist in Baudelaire, relates that on May 25, 1851 the Sub-Prefect of Fontainebleau wrote to the Prefect of Seine-et-Marne to complain about Claude-Alphonse - On the 26th, the Prefect hurried to write to the Minister - Pichois specifies that on the following November 11, Claude-Alphonse was downgraded to simple judge - Pichois determined that in 1857, General Aupick (Charles' stepfather on his mother's side) intervened with the Minister to rehabilitate Claude-Alphonse whom he said had been the victim of intrigues - General Aupick's death that same year did not allow any improvement in Claude-Alphonse's career who vegetated in a small legal position until his retirement - This letter of denunciation was therefore fatal in Claude-Alphonse's life - Was the fact of being Charles Baudelaire's stepbrother at the center of these intrigues?I have the honor of calling your attention to the conduct of Mr. Baudelaire, examining magistrate at the court of Fontainebleau. This magistrate, whose ideas do not always seem to me to be perfectly correct, constantly forgets the dignity and the conveniences inherent in his position. He does more than that, he has relations with the prisoners which are completely contrary to those he should have, and even goes so far as to provide them in the prison with objects forbidden by the regulations. Thus, he provided a compass, a tireligne, a square and various other objects to a man named Grangé, from Bar-le-Duc, locked up in the prison of Fontainebleau, and prosecuted for a political offence. He went further: he said to Grangé: "You should not continue to behave like this, it will harm you, although I do not believe you are guilty, because if I were your judge I would acquit you". If these are not his own words, they at least make sense. All these details were given to me yesterday by Monsieur le Sous-Préfet of Fontainebleau. I thought I should, to be more certain of their accuracy, speak to the Procureur de la République, who came to confirm them to me. I think, Mr. Minister, that Mr. Baudelaire, who has lost the greater part of his fortune, who is subject to a consensual withholding of his salary, cannot continue any longer to exercise the functions of examining magistrate at a court where his consideration and his influence are null. Perhaps you could, Mr. Minister, obtain by your influence on Mr. Baudelaire, that he would agree to accept a situation such as the serious disadvantages I am pointing out to you could no longer occur" - 2°) Letter written and signed by Claude-Alphonse BAUDELAIRE, 2 p in-8, headed "Tribunal de Fontainebleau - Cabinet du Juge d'Instruction", Fontainebleau, January 23rd 1849
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