Esther Guimont Autographed Letter Signed Courtesan Guizot, Hugo. 1860

  

Autographed letter signed, Courtesan Guizot, Hugo... Autographed letter signed by the famous courtesan of letters Esther Guimont? Having likely started as a grisette, she later had several notable lovers such as François Guizot, Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, Alfred de Musset, Émile de Girardin, and Nestor Roqueplan.

She is also said to have been an inspiration for the character of Rosanette in Gustave Flaubert's L'Éducation sentimentale. The letter, dated Wednesday, September 12, 1860, is written in black ink on a double sheet of blue wove paper, in which she requests a box seat: "Could you give me a first box seat from the second row on the side for today? Or a second one facing the stage?" Dimensions: 10.3 x 13.6 cm. Condition: See photos and description for more details.

Number of pages: 1 page. François Guizot, born on October 4, 1787, in Nîmes and died on September 12, 1874, in Saint-Ouen-le-Pin, was a French historian and statesman, a member of the Académie française from 1836, and served as minister several times. Victor Hugo, sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man or, posthumously, the Man of the Century, was a French poet, playwright, writer, novelist, and romantic draftsman, born on 7 Ventôse Year X (February 26, 1802) in Besançon and died on May 22, 1885, in Paris. He is considered one of the most important writers in the French language and world literature. Hugo was also a political figure and an engaged intellectual who played a major ideological role and held a significant place in the history of French literature in the 19th century. Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve was a French literary critic and writer born on December 23, 1804, in Boulogne-sur-Mer and died on October 13, 1869, in Paris. A representative of romanticism, he is renowned for his literary critiques and the writing method he employed. Alfred de Musset was a French poet, playwright, and writer of the romantic period, born on December 11, 1810, in Paris, where he died on May 2, 1857. He mingled with the poets of Charles Nodier's Cénacle and published at 19 years old "Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie," his first poetry collection. Émile de Girardin, born Émile Delamothe on June 21, 1802, in Paris, where he died on April 27, 1881, was a French journalist, businessman, and politician. Victor-Louis-Nestor Rocoplan, known as Nestor Roqueplan, was a French journalist, writer, and director of opera and theater, born on September 14, 1805, in Montreal and died on April 24, 1870, in Paris.

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