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A series of three Autograph Letters Signed, and one Letter Signed, to Paul de S.Victor, Inspecteur des Beaux Arts, about appointments to meet, translations, paintings, and professional matters. In French. 4 letters, 6 pp., with four envelopes. In good condition. Paris, 1871, 1878, 1884 Jean Gaspard Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813 – 1900), French philosopher and archaeologist. Ravaisson’s chief philosophical works are: “Les Fragments philosophiques de Hamilton” (in the Revue des Deux Mondes, November, 1840); Rapport sur le stoicisme (1851); La Philosophie en France au dix-neuvième siècle (1868; 3rd ed., 1889); Morale et métaphysique (1893). Eminent as a philosopher, Ravaisson was also an archaeologist, and contributed articles on ancient sculpture to the Revue Archéologique and the Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions. In 1871 he published a monograph on the Venus de Milo.