Letter from Hugo to Emile Blémont, pseud. of Léon-Emile Petitdidier, (1839-1927)

Scope and Content

Autograph letter to Blémont thanking him for a favourable notice of one of his works (probably La légende des siècles, nouvelle série) and inviting him to dinner.

Bought from Loliée on 11 September 1962 for 50 francs.

Blémont was a French poet, friend of Victor Hugo and Arthur Rimbaud, and founder of La Renaissance littéraire et artistique.