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To François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
Elderfield
Aug 5th 1871

MS Archives Nationales

My dear M. Guizot
Thank you most heartily for so kindly remembering to send me the continuation of your history of France. It is quite a visible token of the cessation of the saddest of the time – and of the recovery of activity. The numbers are quite right, I have them up to the 17th1

With many thanks
yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1It is not clear which book CMY refers to here, but by 'the saddest of the time' she may mean the French Revolution. If so, she is probably not referring to the book Guizot was currently publishing, the children's version of his French history entitled L'histoire de France depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'en 1789, racontée à mes petits-enfants 5 vols (1870-1876). After his death in 1874 that book was completed by his daughter Henriette de Witt from his notes; she also published a continuation, L' histoire de France depuis 1789 jusqu'en 1848, racontée à mes petits-enfants: leçons recueillies par Madame de Witt (1878-9). Did the latter exist in some version as early as 1871?
Cite this letter


The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/2414/to-francois-pierre-guillaume-guizot

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