Charles de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul
The Viscount Charles de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul , born with Brussels on April 30th, 1836, died in Royat on July 3rd, 1907, is a scholar, collector and Belgian writer .
Heir to a former family of the Flemish aristocracy, impassioned French literature, Lovenjoul constituted an imposing library on the French writers of, including/understanding literary volumes, reviews, newspapers and, starting from 1870, of the manuscripts and the letters autographs which it bequeathed to the Institut of France in May 1905. The collection includes/understands handwritten and printed works of Honore de Balzac, George Sand, Théophile Gautier, but also of many documents on the writers of, in particular Holy-Beuve: : 1500 manuscripts: 40000 printed volumes, 900 titles of periodicals (for the period 1800 - 1907), of the objects and memories various, as well as a great quantity of personal records, of which its correspondence, rich person of fifteen thousand letters.
Installed in a house of Chantilly of 1910 with 1987, the Lovenjoul collection was transferred to the library from the Institute from France. The portraits of the father of Balzac and Laure de Berny are exposed in the room of reading, as well as the photographic portrait of Lovenjoul.
Lovenjoul gathered the Balzac writings dispersed with died of Evelyne Hańska. Thanks to him, the Institute of France preserves from now on the majority of the manuscripts and the corrected tests of Balzac. Classified by Georges Vicar, the collection was availability of the researchers in 1914. Its catalog, established by Georges Vicar, was published in a condensed version: Chantilly, Library Spoelberg de Lovenjoul , National library, 1960 (general Catalog of the public libraries of France, T. LII ).
Lovenjoul met George Sand shortly after 1870 and he proposed with the novelist to carry out an edition of his complete works for which she started to write new dedications. But Georges Sand died before its work is not completed and the project was abandoned.
This large scholar took part itself in the edition of works of his preferred authors.
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