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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States All documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States Original language: English French German Italian Latin Browse documents by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse commentaries by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse database by: Key words Editors' login:  | | Balzac's letter to authors, Paris (1834) Source: Association pour la conservation et la reproduction photographique de la presse (ACRPP) : Revue de Paris, Nouvelle Série - Année 1834, tome XI Citation: Balzac's letter to authors (1834), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: f_1834 Full title Pro Aris et Focis [For our altars and our hearths]. Letter to the French writers of the nineteenth century. Full title original language Pro Aris et Focis. Lettre adressée aux écrivains du XIXe siècle. Abstract After Beaumarchais's endeavours on behalf of the Society of Dramatic Authors (which he helped to set up in 1777), this letter of Balzac's addressed to the French writers of the nineteenth century is surely one of the most eloquent appeals for a closing of ranks by all men of letters so that they might best defend their property interests. Reflecting an awareness of the writer's 'profession' within a capitalist economy, this coming together of France's authors, who until then (except perhaps for playwrights) had not really been linked by formal ties of association, was envisaged by Balzac as a force capable of "regenerating the book trade" and securing "literary property laws" which would be more favourable to them. At a time when in England the lack of true cohesion between authors contributed to the failure of Thomas Noon Talfourd's copyright bills (see uk_1842), Balzac"s letter effectively paved the way for the creation, in 1838, of the 'Société des Gens de Lettres de France' (SGDLF) in which the great novelist also played a significant role. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) Publisher Revue de Paris Location Paris Year 1834 Language French Source Association pour la conservation et la reproduction photographique de la presse (ACRPP) : Revue de Paris, Nouvelle Série - Année 1834, tome XI Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Ariosto, Ludovico (1474-1533) Arnal, Étienne (1794-1872) Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Ballanche, Pierre-Simon (1776-1847) Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) Barante, Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de (1782-1866) Barthélemy, Auguste Marseille (1796-1867) Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799) Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Béranger, Pierre Jean de (1780-1857) Bouffé, Marie (1800-1888) Buchez, Philippe Benjamin Joseph (1796-1865) Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788) Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824) Camoens, Luis de (1524-1580) Catherine II 'the Great' (1729-1796) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616) Charles X (1757-1836) Chateaubriand, François René, Vicomte de (1768-1848) Chénier, Marie André (1762-1794) Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) Courier, Paul Louis (1772-1825) Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, baron (1769-1832) Étienne, Charles-Guillaume (1777-1845) Farina, Giovanni Maria (1685-1766) Frederick II, the Great (1712-1786) Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Anne-Louis (1767-1824) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832) Gozlan, Léon (1806-1866) Guizot, François-Pierre-Guillaume (1787-1874) Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Janin, Jules Gabriel (1804-1874) Julius II (1443-1513) La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-1695) Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de (1790-1869) Lamennais, Félicité Robert de (1782-1854) Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794) Louis XIV (1638-1715) Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de (1721-1794) Mérimée, Prosper (1803-1870) Mignet, François Auguste Marie (1796-1884) Molière (1622-1673) Monnier, Henri (1799-1877) Monteil, Amans-Alexis (1769-1850) Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de (1689-1755) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Musset, Alfred de (1810-1857) Napoleon I (1769-1821) Nicholas I (1796-1855) Nodier, Charles (1780-1844) Odry, Jacques-Charles (1778-1853) Pellico, Silvio (1788-1854) Perrault, Charles (1628-1703) Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) Rabelais, François (c.1494-c.1553) Racine, Jean (1639-1699) Raphael (1483-1529) Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761) Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio (1792-1868) Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778) Roux-Lavergne, Pierre-Célestin (1802-1874) Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin (1804-1869) Saint Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de (1737-1814) Sand, George (1804-1876) Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805) Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Scribe, Augustin Eugène (1791-1861) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c.4 B.C.-c.65 A.D.) Soulié, Frédéric (1800-1847) Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) Sue, Marie Joseph Eugène (1804-1857) Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595) Thierry, Augustin (1795-1856) Thiers, Louis Adolphe (1797-1877) Vico, Giovanni Battista (1668-1744) Vigny, Alfred Victor, Comte de (1797-1863) Villemain, Abel-François (1790-1870) Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.) Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778) Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von (1786-1826) Persons referred to in commentary Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799) Talfourd, Thomas Noon (1795-1854) Places referred to England Germany Italy Le Havre Paris Rome St Petersburg Toulouse Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to Code civil (Napoleonic code) 1804 Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Académie française Comédie-Française Opéra (Paris) Order of Malta Société des Auteurs Dramatiques (Society of Dramatic Authors, f.1777, now SACD) Institutions referred to in commentary Société des Auteurs Dramatiques (Society of Dramatic Authors, f.1777, now SACD) Société des Gens de Lettres de France (SGDL, f.1838) Key words adaptation authors' remuneration authorship, romantic concept of book market book trade counterfeit creativity customs derivatives divine law foreign reprints French Revolution idea/expression importation incentives industrial revolution interest groups labour theory lobbying patronage personality theory piracy property analogies property theory, authors' property public domain public performance societies, authors' Responsible editor Frédéric Rideau Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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