Scope and Contents
Correspondence, writings, photographs, drawings, and other personal papers by or relating to Edmond Plauchut. The materials document Plauchut's literary works, his travels, and his life at George Sand's Nohant estate. Writings include early poems; manuscripts for the book Autour de Nohant (Paris: Calmann Lé́vy, 1897), the study Les anciennes provinces de France: Le Berry, and his unpublished memoir Les malheurs d'un homme heureux; a travel diary; and a humorous narrative of his adventures in the Philippines with drawings by Spanish artist Franciso Lameyer. Visual materials include caricatures of Plauchut by Maurice Sand and Francisco Lameyer, photographic portraits, and posters advertising performances at the Théâtre de Nohant, a puppet theater built by Maurice Sand.
Dates
- 1850 - 1996
- Majority of material found within 1850 - 1909
Creator
Language of Materials
In French.
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Edmond Plauchut Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Formerly owned by Christiane Sand. Purchased from Les Amazones on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and the Frederick W. Hilles Fund, 2010-2012.
Arrangement
Organized into three series: I. Correspondence, 1870-1909. II. Writings, 1850-1908. III. Personal Papers and Other Material, 1861-1996.
Extent
3.17 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, photographs, drawings, and other personal papers by or relating to Edmond Plauchut. The materials document Plauchut's literary works, his travels, and his life at George Sand's Nohant estate. Writings include early poems; manuscripts for the book Autour de Nohant (Paris: Calmann Lé́vy, 1897), the study Les anciennes provinces de France: Le Berry, and his unpublished memoir Les malheurs d'un homme heureux; a travel diary; and a humorous narrative of his adventures in the Philippines with drawings by Spanish artist Franciso Lameyer. Visual materials include caricatures of Plauchut by Maurice Sand and Francisco Lameyer, photographic portraits, and posters advertising performances at the Théâtre de Nohant, a puppet theater built by Maurice Sand.
Biographical / Historical
Edmond Plauchut (1824-1909) was a French journalist, writer, traveler, and close friend of novelist George Sand (1804-1876) and her son Maurice Sand (1823-1889). Following a brief journalistic career in Angoulême, Plauchut left France in 1850 to join French trade operations in Manila, Philippines. After a shipwreck derailed his initial journey, Plauchut arrived in Manila in 1851. His travels also brought him through the Middle East, British Ceylon, and coastal East Asia, as detailed in his subsequent writings. After his return to France in 1861, Plauchut frequently resided with the Sand family at their Nohant estate, where he was later buried. Plauchut knew George Sand from an epistolary exchange begun before his departure for Asia. Among the books and articles written by Plauchut are travel tales, regional histories, ethnographic studies, and the book Autour de Nohant (Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1897) on George Sand.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
The processing of this collection involved combining together five separate accessions of material acquired over time from the same provenance. Information included in the Description of the Papers note, as well as in file titles and descriptions, is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from a survey of the contents.
Former call number of the "Poésie" manuscript volume (in Series II): GEN MSS VOL 607.
- Authors -- France -- 19th century
- Authors, French -- 19th century -- Archives
- Berry (France) -- History
- Caricatures
- French literature -- 19th century
- Lameyer, F. (Francisco), 1825-1877
- Manila (Philippines) -- Description and travel
- Nohant (Nohant-Vicq, France)
- Photographs
- Plauchut, Edmond, 1824-1909
- Posters
- Sand, Christiane -- Ownership
- Sand, George, 1804-1876
- Sand, Maurice, 1823-1889
- Théâtre de Nohant (Nohant-Vicq, France) -- Posters
- Travelers' writings, French -- 19th century
- Title
- Guide to the Edmond Plauchut Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Ève Bourbeau-Allard
- Date
- November 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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Location
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New Haven, CT 06511
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