Group of seven original carte de visite photographs of nineteenth-century French writers. Pictured are: historian and writer Ernest Renan (photographed by Pierre Petit), journalist and author Jules Vallès, novelist Arsène Houssaye (photographed by Le Gray & Cie), dramatist François Ponsard (photographed by Nadar), literary critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (photographed by Bayard & Bertall), critic and journalist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (issued by Neurdein), and one unidentified. Most identified in pen or pencil on the verso. Some with light toning, but overall fine to very fine. Each 2.5 x 4 inches.