Jules Michelet married his collaborator Athénaïs Mialaret and recommended the young explorer Guillaume Lejean

A set of two letters from Jules Michelet:

"I am at the Institute, dear and illustrious Master; I beg you to excuse this sad note, I have no others here. Our old friendship (which is still so dear to me) makes it my duty to inform you that I am remarrying. I am marrying a person of eminent ability and the only one who can effectively help me in my work [...]. I am going to publish a work on the history of higher education. Your insights on this important subject would be most valuable to me. If volumes II and III of my book, *La Révolution *, have not yet reached you, I would ask you to have them (along with this note) collected from my printer, Mr. Ducessois, 55 Quai des Augustins."

A note at the top of the letter states "I am only missing the second part of volume III" with the initials of Joseph-Victor Leclerc "JVLC".

Michelet married Athénaïs Marguerite Mialaret (1826-1899) on March 12, 1849. 

"Dear and illustrious Master, the person who delivers this letter to you, Mr. Le Jean, is a young man steeped in learning and who, I believe, will become a scholar of the first order. No one has studied the antiquities of Brittany more thoroughly, and what is very rare, with a wisdom and critical certainty unmatched before him in this field of study. At your age, he has already spent a lifetime immersed in the fascinating archives of this much-talked-about country, which is still, in reality, poorly understood. More recently, he was awarded a prize by the Institute. And he has just spent a year or two studying in France, Belgium, and other countries to shed light on the important question of communal lands before the 12th century. Your colleagues, Messrs. Beugnot, de Wailly, and Guiguand, hold his knowledge, his measured approach to learning, and his intellectual integrity in the highest esteem. He will be most fortunate if you occasionally allow him to draw upon the treasures of your erudition, and if you Honor him with your advice. I would have had the pleasure of visiting you if I were not in the saddest of family circumstances. My daughter is almost dying, my wife very often ill; and I, always unwell. I am working tirelessly to finish the Reformation [Volume 8 of his History of France in the 16th^Century youin a month [...]."

Guillaume Marie Lejean (1824-1871), a Breton geographer and explorer, published a political history of the city of Morlaix in 1846, followed in 1849 by an important volume on Brittany, its history, and its historians.