Auguste RAFFET son bibliography General Championnet signed autograph letter

  
About the book: Jean Étienne Championnet, Marcellin Pellet, The General Championnet and Patriotic Education - Collection of Heroic Actions, or the Book of the French Soldier, Paris, Quantin, 1885. At the request of his correspondent, Auguste Raffet is conducting further research on "a book by Championnet.

" It is undoubtedly about: Jean Étienne Championnet, Marcellin Pellet, The General Championnet and Patriotic Education - Collection of Heroic Actions, or the Book of the French Soldier, Paris, Quantin, 1885. He searched the printed materials department of the National Library and the catalog of the War Depot Library. The book is not there. In the Prints Department, he describes what he found: 8 issues of "The Glories of the French People.

" Then he continues: "in the work of the engraver Labrousse, we possess about a hundred detached plates from this work; they are all hand-colored (...) the name of Championnet is not mentioned anywhere." It contains the plates in a draft state from the Collection of Heroic Facts. From Championnet, "and it is likely that these are the drawings that were engraved and colored by Labrousse." As for the two plates representing Championnet as a soldier and officer, "they are part of another quarto work entitled: 4. Complete Collection of the Costumes of the Lawmakers.) a work also decorated by Labrousse under the direction of Saint-Sauveur.