HUGO, Victor (1802-1885). Signed autograph note, dated " 29 - Lot 131

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HUGO, Victor (1802-1885). Signed autograph note, dated " 29 - Lot 131
HUGO, Victor (1802-1885). Signed autograph note, dated " 29 7bre " 1876 (according to the stamps on the envelope), one page 8° anopistograph (faded, small lacks and tears, folds) addressed to Olga de Tallenay, mother of Jeanne de Tallenay: "[...] You are goodness as you are beauty. You will come back to us, I hope. I place at your feet my homage and my respects. Victor Hugo" put in a business card size envelope that Hugo probably just received (French stamp [!] and Paris postmark of Sept. 29, 76 and Russian postmark of Sept. 21, 76). On the front, in Hugo's hand: "Madame la marquise / Olga de Tallenay / address crossed out where one can still read "hotel" and in the lower right corner, the initials "V.H.". On the back of another hand: "Petite Marskaïa / hotel de Paris / St Petersburg". Jeanne de Tallenay is the daughter of Auguste Marquis (1795-1863), a native of Tallenay who took advantage of her patronymic in 1853 to change her name to Marquis de Tallenay, especially since one had to be noble to enter the quarry. 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), who became Marquise Olga de Tallenay. She met Gustave Courbet during his exile in Switzerland (1875-1877).
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