Henri Béraldi

Henri Béraldi is a large collector of Estampe S and books. Writer of French art, born and died in Paris (1849-1931). He is the author of two important repertories:

  • the engraver S of the 18th century , in collaboration with Roger de Portalis.
  • engravers of the 19th century: guide of the amateur of modern prints , five volumes (1885-1891).

It also published many catalogs of prints, and dedicated works with bibliophilism, the binding.

  • Prints and Livres -1872 to 1892-, Paris bookstore Conquet 1892,

Come sometimes with the the Pyrenees, it made some rises there. Bibliophile impassioned, it sought and collected the books devoted to the Pyrenees. It published several works on this “Pyrenean literature”:

  • Hundred Years in the Pyrenees (1898-1904), a monumental sum in seven volumes. It there analyzes and comments on, sometimes with irony, always with passion, the Pyrenean literature of the 19th century, of Ramond de Carbonnières with the first writers of the 20th century. This work is at the same time a history of exploration and “conquest” of the tops of the Pyrenees. In the preamble to volume I, “ biblio-Pyrenean excursion ”, it proposes, on the model of Alpinisme, the term “Pyrénéisme”.
  • Henri Beraldi. Past of the pyreneism. Notes of a bibliophile . Volume I (1911): The Pyrenees before Ramond. Volume II (1919): Ramond de Carbonnières, the cardinal of Rohan, Cagliostro.
  • Henri Béraldi. the Summit of the Pyrenees. Notes of a bibliophile . Volume I (1923): Hundreds and one peaks . Volume II (1924): Tuquerouge . Paris. Volume III (1925): Of the Mount-Lost to the Nethou .

It was also interested in the officers Géodésie NS who established the limits of the Franco-Spanish Frontière (Junker) or the Geological Survey map (Peytier and Hossard, inter alia):

  • Henri Beraldi. Balaïtous and Pelvoux . Volume I: Notes on the officers of the chart of France . Volume II: an Officer geodesist in the Pyrenees in 1786-1795, first rises of large Pelvoux by the captain Durand .

The Library of Toulouse has “Béraldi funds”, offered by the heirs to Henri Béraldi including/understanding part of its collections, that relating to the Pyrenees and Luchon.

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