ALEXANDRE DUMAS (1802-1870) AND A SECRETARY. "Mémoire de M. Alexandre Dumas. Le Roi s'amuse". S.l.n.d. [circa 1854/1856]. 10 cut-out parts forming 4 large folio pages (280 x 440 mm) on blue paper. Autograph manuscripts on Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse. "M. Victor Hugo's prose is as good as mine. mienne par conséquent mes lecteurs ne se plaindront pas ", puis un secrétaire continue " L'apparition de ce drame au théâtre a donné lieu à un acte ministériel inouï [et il reçoit] l'ordre de suspendre les représentations du Roi s'amuse [...] ". The manuscript is incomplete. ATTACHED: "Mémoires de M. Alexandre Dumas. Discours de M. Victor Hugo (suite)". Manuscript signed "Al. Dumas". S.l.n.d. 20 cut-out parts forming 6 large folio pages (280 x 440 mm) on blue paper. Manuscript of the second part of the speech given by Victor Hugo on 19 December 1832 before the Tribunal du Commerce to force the French theatre and the government to perform Le Roi s'amuse, reprinted and commented on by Dumas (footnotes). "I have no anger or hatred. However, the fact that the police have given one of my lines a meaning that it does not have, that it has never had in my mind, I declare that this is insolent, and that it is no less insolent for the king than for the poet [...]". Dumas adds this comment: "It goes without saying that the court will declare itself incompetent [...]". Le Roi s'amuse was published in Dumas's Mémoires from 28 November to 6 December 1854. SET OF TWO MANUSCRIPTS