[Victor HUGO] - Charles DUCROS (b. 1810, conseiller de préfe - Lot 369

[Victor HUGO] - Charles DUCROS (b. 1810, conseiller de préfecture, archivist and poet) / Correspondence of 3 autograph letters signed from to Victor Hugo, from Guéret, in 1837, totaling 7 p in-8 plus 3 pages of address with postage, one of the letters bears Victor Hugo's autograph "r" for "répondu": in January 1837, he said he was "astounded by the conduct of the Académie", which had "proved itself to be a stupid body", "you're better off on your own than the forty locked up in this literary mire immortalized by their stupidity", and after continuing to castigate the Académie française, however, he urges Hugo to continue running, because "it's not the habit, the sword, the armchair and the glory that I see in the Académie, I see for you the dawn of a political career", "when you're there you'll galvanize this extinct body", and if there are Viennet, Dupty and Etienne de Jouy (hostile to Hugo), there are also friends in Chateaubriand and Lamartine - In June n1837, he recalls the Fêtes de Versailles where Hugo chatted for a long time with the Duchesse d'Orléans (the new one, the one who had just married Fernand d'Orléans), he asks if "Goethe's pupil is still to be found under the princess, and to what extent poetry can germinate in royal hearts", he speaks of the forthcoming release of Hugo's "Voix intérieures" - On August 11, 1837, he comes to report the death of a friend, a young author he had introduced to Hugo [n.b.: the BNF holds a letter from Charles Ducrot to Victor Hugo, on which Hugo drew a pen-and-ink sketch].