Lot n° 231
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150 - 250
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: 300EUR
CHARBONNEL (Victor), unpublished correspondence of 19 letter - Lot 231
CHARBONNEL (Victor), unpublished correspondence of 19 letters, sometimes several pages long, addressed to Jeanne de TALLENAY. Friendly letters - sometimes more? - where Charbonnel talks about his conferences and literature. Letters dated today. One dated February 29, 1896. Almost all signed with an initials. Priest, Victor Charbonnel (1863-1926) was ordained in 1897 and undertook a series of anticlerical conferences. He founded the newspaper "La Raison" in 1901 and then became director of "l'Action" with Henry Bérenger. He left it in 1904. We take the liberty of quoting the excellent note on Jeanne de Tallenay, written by Paul Aron and Cécile Vanderpeelen-Diagre (Edmond Picard. A Belgian socialist bourgeois at the end of the nineteenth century. Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 2013, p. 256). "Among [Edmond] Picard's [...] occasional mistresses was Jeanne (or Jenny-Jacques) de Tallenay (1863-1920), whom he named Princess of Carthage in his correspondence with Judith [Cladel], because her husband had been stationed in Tunis since 1899. She is the daughter of Auguste Marquis (1795-1863), originally from Tallenay, who took advantage of her surname in 1853 to change her name to Marquis de Tallenay. This French diplomat had been Minister of France in Weimar and then in Frankfurt where he spent most of his career; his wife was the daughter of the Russian General Paul Illyne, Olga Illyne (who died in 1915 in Clarens, Switzerland). Raised in the field of international relations, Jenny-Jacques left with her mother for Venezuela in August 1878. Two years later, she married Ernest Van Bruyssel (1827-1914), Belgium's chargé d'affaires in Venezuela, on 15 November 1880 in Caracas. A curious liberal, the man was as interested in the social and economic life of his country as he was in the countries he liked to discover during his travels. After writing a beautiful essay about his travels, his wife acquired Belgian nationality. The couple lived in Belgium for sev
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