Letters

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  DESTUTT DE TRACY

  Lettres à Joseph Rey (1804-1814)

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  In October 1804, Joseph Rey, a poor, self-taught friend of Stendhal, "for ever acquired to the great cause of our admirable revolution", wrote to Destutt de Tracy. This last was a senator, a member of the Institute, but especially a leader of the...

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  Théodore de BÈZE

  Correspondance

  Tome XXIV, 1583

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze n° 366

  Tome XXIV of Theodore Beza’s Correspondance contains over a hundred letters and annexes. Many of these letters come from France where there is a great lack of ministers and the peace is fragile. Beza receives expressions of admiration and gratitude...

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  Rodolphe TÖPFFER

  Correspondance complète

  Volume I, Octobre 1807- 8 juillet 1820

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance complète de R. Töpffer n° 1

  The letters of the Genevan author Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846) reveal the humour of the Histoires en estampes, charm of the Nouvelles genevoises and spontaneity of the writing and drawings in the Voyages en zigzag. Jacques Doin, president of the...

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  Marcel JOUHANDEAU

  Lettres de Marcel Jouhandeau à Max Jacob

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  In 1979, Droz published Max Jacob’s letters to Marcel Jouhandeau. Ann Kimball’s edition of Marcel Jouhandeau’s letter to Max Jacob completes this correspondence with letters that had long been considered lost. It reveals the correspondents’ characters...

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  Philippe de COMMYNES

  Lettres

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Philippe de Commynes enjoyed an intimate relationship with the French monarchy, spanning forty years and the reigns of three different kings. Through his letters, which have been collected for the first time in this edition, the reader gains...

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  Théodore de BÈZE

  Correspondance

  Tome XXIII, 1582

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze n° 346

  This volume contains important information on the year 1582, the year of the "the War of the Raconis", when Duke Charles-Emmanuel I of Savoy first attempted to conquer Geneva.This eventful year was nonetheless crowned with the publication of the...

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  Théodore de BÈZE

  Correspondance

  Tome XXII, 1581

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze n° 334

  This volume contains important information on Beza’s gift of his Codex to Cambridge...

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  Théophile GAUTIER

  Correspondance générale

  Tome XII, 1872 et compléments

  Librairie Droz | Théophile Gautier: Correspondance

  This is the twelveth volume of Théophile Gautier's Correspondance. The edition contains all letters to and from Gautier, and indexes of all his correspondents. Previous volumes are...

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  Catherine DES ROCHES, Madeleine DES ROCHES

  Les Missives

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  In addition to a fine adaptation of Claudian’s epic poem De raptu Proserpinae, the Missives hold close to one hundred private letters that the dames Des Roches selected for publication. A final appendix contains numerous elogia in their honor...

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  FÉNELON

  Correspondance

  Tome XVI, Les dernières années, 1712-1715

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance de Fénelon

  This edition presents the last years of correspondence of Fénelon between 1712-1715, which transpires to be tragic but at the same time...