DUMAS ALEXANDRE: P

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Père. (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A good signed page with unusual statement `I would like that my ''Louis XIV'' would be worthy of inhabiting your palace of Versailles - Alex Dumas´, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d., in French. The detached sheet being the title page of his work Louis XIV and His Century (1844). Folded, with very small tear to the upper edge and a large stain. Together with A.L.S., Noel Parfait, three pages, 8vo, Brussels, 4th December 1853, to Alexandre Dumas, in French. Noel Parfait (1813-1896) French writer and Deputy. Parfait reports having received the first four acts of Dumas´ work La Jeunesse de Louis XIV, as well as the manuscript of Mémoires and mentions he is revising Ingénue, and states in part `I will defend your interests in the same way as if they were mine. Although I doubt being able to obtain half of the recette..´ With address leaf to Alexandre Dumas postmarked. G, 2 £150-200