MONT SAINT-MICHEL - Louis François COTTIN (A native of Lyon - Lot 223

MONT SAINT-MICHEL - Louis François COTTIN (A native of Lyon and a participant in the 1830 uprising, he took part in the sacking of the Tuileries and was caught with Crown diamonds; he was convicted and imprisoned at Mont Saint-Michel; a man of letters, he wrote a collection of songs in prison that was published in 1845, *Chants de Mort d’un Prisonnier du Mont Saint-Michel* [Death Songs of a Prisoner of Mont Saint-Michel], and came to be known as the “Chantre du Mont Saint-Michel”) / Signed autograph manuscript of a poem (song) addressed to Émile Littré (1801–1881, lexicographer and politician), 3 pages in-8 plus a cover page

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