Abstract
Muse frangaise, was a prolific letterwriter. One of his correspondents over a period of nearly forty years (1822-60) was a politician with the cacoethes scribendi, Jules de Croze, who, with his wife Virginie, frequented the social and literary milieux in which La Muse frangaise was born and eked out its very brief existence. To this manage are addressed a large number of letters now in the possession of the University of Texas library and in which are to be found, as might be expected, numerous allusions to literary events and the literary climate of the first half of the nineteenth century in France. The present paper assembles a group of these allusions, most of them bearing directly or indirectly on the role of Chateaubriand in the artistic, political, and social life of the period. First, three brief references to La Muse frangaise, the short-lived organ (July, 1823-June, 1824) of the young &cole romantique of which Deschamps was such an active member and of which Chateaubriand was one of the inspirateurs.' The new school had incurred the hostility of the Societ6 royale des bonnes Lettres, which had been organized in 1821 for the defense of the throne and the altar. One of its members, Charles de Lacretelle, had attacked the romantiques at a meeting of the Socidtd held on December 8, 1823. In an undated letter which must have been written at about this time, Deschamps refers to an article, in the conservative periodical L'Oriflamme, which would seem to have been an answer to Lacretelle (I have not had access to the files of this periodical). We read:
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