Gustave FLAUBERT. Autograph notes in the margin of an autograph manuscript by Edmond LAPORTE (1832-1906) for Bouvard et Pécuchet 24 folio pages on 12 leaves (31.5 x 20.5 cm), and 1 in-8 page. Precious file for the preparation of the "Second volume" of Bouvard et Pécuchet, which never saw the light of day. A note by Edmond Laporte at the head of the file states: "These quotations, noted by me, were to appear in the supplementary volume of B. & P., which was never published. (The indications in the margin are in Flaubert's hand. They refer to the planned Classification of the 2nd volume). These quotations are written on the back of sheets (paginated 2, 11, 13-15, 18-21 and 23-25), a heavily crossed-out and corrected draft of a historical work on the Revolution in Grand-Couronne (renamed La Réunion) and Petit-Couronne (La Fraternité). The quotations, some of which are crossed out by a few lines (and sometimes the page by a pencil stroke), are, for the most part, annotated in the margin by Flaubert for classification purposes. The 75 quotations are taken from Traité des altérations du sang by Piorry and Lhéritier (1840), a thesis from 1875, Histoire des doctrines médicales by Daremberg (1870), Essai sur les doctrines médicales by Chauffard (1846), Essai sur la philosophie médicale by Bouillaud (1836), Debay's Vénus féconde et callipédique, Pomme's Traité des affections vaporeuses des deux sexes (1769), Raspail's Histoire de la santé et de la maladie (1846), Adelon's Physiologie de l'homme (1823), Becquerel's thèse d'agrégation (1844), Daremberg's La Médecine, histoire et doctrines by Daremberg (1865), Études de thermométrie chimique by Redard (1874), Histoire naturelle de la femme by Moreau de la Sarthe (1803), Histoire philosophique et médicale de la femme by Menville de Ponsan (1858), Étude de l'homme dans l'état de santé et de maladie by Réveillé-Parise (1845), Dictionnaire des sciences médicales, Traité élémentaire d'hygiène publique et privée by Becquerel (1867), Clinique médicale by Trousseau, Pathologie interne by Andral (1836), Toxicologie by Orfila, Idées populaires by Richerand, etc., as well as eight verses from Les Hommes de Prométhée by Colardeau. In the margin of most of them, Flaubert has indicated the category into which he intends to place these quotations in the "Second volume": "Contradictions (de la science)", "Contrad[ictions]", "Anecdotes", "Beautés du peuple", "Style médical", "exalt[ation] du Bas" or "Bas", "Belle idée" or "Belles idées", "Beautés de la vieillesse", "Littérature"; some notes are abbreviated, or noted "id" in the case of a sequel. On two occasions, he indicates where these notes should be inserted: thus, for a quotation from Moreau de la Sarthe, "Style médical (après les mamelles)"; and, for a quotation on nymphomania, "Style médical mettre après les romans".