French writer (1823-1892). Autograph memorandum. No place. 8vo (206 x 134 mm). 3 pp. on a single bifolium.
$ 3,740 / 3.500 €
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Autograph memorandum, bearing instructions for the preparation of the map appearing in his "Saint Paul" (1869), the third (and arguably best) part of Renan’s "Histoire des origines du christianisme", the magnum opus which had begun in 1863 with "Vie de Jésus" and became a succès de scandale. Published by Michel Lévy Frères in 1869, "Saint Paul" contained the fruits of the journey Renan made with his wife Cornélie Scheffer following in the footsteps of the historical Paul. It also contained a detailed map with coloured itineraries of each of the journeys.
The present memorandum provides the colour-coding for each of these, together with no less than 33 amendments to the details of the map. - Offered with a carte de visite of the architect Edmond Guillaume (1826-94) with Renan’s autograph pencil notes to verso giving directions to his house in Sèvres (tipped to paper mount) and a letter (20 May 1893) from Noémie Psichari, Renan’s daughter. - Provenance: Von Scholl collection..
French writer (1823-1892). Autograph letter signed ("ERenan"). Paris. 08.09.1855. 8vo. 1¼ pp. on bifolium.
$ 427 / 400 €
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To an unnamed baron sending him the new owing proofs. Renan asks the baron to define the time of his return to Paris, because Renan intends to send the proofs to Savoy. Renan reports that he has anew read the baron's article in the "Correspondant" which strikes him more and more. He talks about the reorganisation of the "Correspondant" by M. de Broglie and about "la Revue Contemporaire" that contrary changes its flag with surprising ambidexterity. Renan furthermore mentions that Max Müller would be in Paris in some days again and that he, Renan, recently criticized Müller's linguistic system of Turanianism by which, in Renan's opinion, Müller wants to please Bunsen.
Renan is content concerning Pott's article in the "Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft" that also criticized Müller very sharply: "Voici de nouvelles épreuves, que je crois devoir vous envoyer encore, quoique vous me parliez d'un prochain retour à Paris. Faites moi savoir jusqu'à quelle époque je dois vous les envoyer en Savoie; autrement il se pourrait faire qu'elles allassent vous chercher dans vos montagnes après votre départ. J'ai encore relu votre bel article du Correspondant, qui me frappe de plus en plus. On parle d'une réorganisation du Correspondant, entre les mains de M. de Broglie: par contre, la Revue Contemporaire vient de changer de drapeau avec une étonnante prestesse. Vous ai-je dit que Max Müller était à Paris? Il en est absent dans ce moment; mais il sera à retour dans quelque jours. J'ai un peu critiqué les systèmes de Touranianisme où il s'est laissé entraîner dans ces derniers temps pour complaire à Bunsen, et je le regreterais presque, si en lisant le dernier numero no de la Zeitschrift der D. M. Gesellschaft, je n'y avais trouvé un remarquable article de rec. Pott, où les mêmes critiques se retrouvent, avec une vivacité de forme que je ne me suis pas heursement permise [...]". - Later in life an expert on Semitic languages and civilizations, in 1846 Renan became lasting friend of his teacher, the chemist Marcellin Berthelot. Max Müller and Renan had a common amateur mentor Baron Ferdinand von Eckstein (1790-1861). - With a small hole through bifolium..