Eugène SUE

Signed autograph manuscript dated 14.8.1854 of 8 pages in-4. Complete manuscript on ruled paper, paginated, on double column, very well worked, erasures and additions. Exiled from France, Eugène Sue, together with two exiled friends like him, happened to attend the cantonal shooting in Nyon in 1854. The "Genevois" reproduced the text that the novelist devoted to this festival in the "Album de la Suisse". Eugène Sue entitled his article "FETE DU TIR CANTONAL DE NYON (July 1854)". "The cantonal shooting festival in Nyon will remain one of the best memories of my trip to Switzerland. I attended this solemnity in the company of two dear friends, one whose name is among the most illustrious of science and of our glorious revolution of 1848 (the Geneva Album publishes the name of Jean Raynaud); the other, like me and a renowned poet, was outlawed. Old soldier of the militant democracy and gave him all that the patriotic writer, the man of big heart and inflexible conviction can give to his cause. The readers of the Geneva album (underlined) forgive me the details, the impressions I tell are common to my friends and me." After passing through Geneva "as lively and brilliant as the brightest parts of Paris..." Describes the city's monuments. The three friends arrive in Nyon "charming and picturesque city, tiered in amphitheatre on the bank of Lake Geneva. An innumerable crowd of citizens, women and children from all parts of the canton, crowded the outskirts of a vast grassy esplanade, lined with centuries-old trees, from where the imposing chain of the Alps can be seen as far as the eye can see. About three thousand people sat down at the banquet in Nyon. A frank, cordial, decent and quiet cheerfulness animated the guests, because the presence of women and children always imposes convenience, moderation and morality at popular meetings... Almost all festivals in Switzerland end with speeches on current political issues; thus all citizens are constantl