240. [MANUSCRIBE] - PORTALIS (Joseph-Marie). My Political Memories. S.l., n.d., parts in-8 or in-4, [826] ff. covered with various fine, moderately legible script, numerous erasures and cross-outs, in sheets, red half-black box, grey suede interior. Exceptional handwritten file, kept in the Portalis family, and containing part of the unpublished Souvenirs of the son of Jean-Etienne-Marie Portalis (1746-1807), considered one of the Fathers of the Civil Code: Joseph-Marie Portalis (1778-1858), who must have written them during the Empire, perhaps during the period of forced rest that his resounding disgrace of January 1811 brought him. In any case, it mentions at one point Joseph Bonaparte, known during the Revolution, and gives the date 1807, which provides at least one terminus a quo. Never finished, never really put in order, these notes, sometimes very confused under variants and corrections, were passed on after the death of the First President of the Court of Cassation to his family. Here again, it is difficult to specify which of his many children had custody: logic would suggest that it was his eldest surviving son, Harold Jean-Baptiste (1810-1899), but the mention of "my dear father-in-law" in several places in the document points to Portalis' son-in-law, Rodolphe Saillard (1789-1878), husband of his eldest daughter Stéphanie (1802-1865). THE ONLY KNOWN MANUSCRIBER OF PORTALIS MEMORIES Full details on request.