‎Autographs‎

‎Pierné, Gabriel, Komponist und Dirigent (1863-1937)‎

‎Eigenh. adressierter Briefumschlag.‎

‎o.J. Paris, ohne Jahr, 7 x 11 cm.‎

‎An "Monsieur Fromaigeat | 66 Av. de chatillon | Paris 14e." - Gedruckter Umschlag der "Association artistique des Concerts Colonne". - Porträtpostkarte liegt bei.‎

Bookseller reference : 61070

‎Pierre BENOIT‎

‎"Si sans ces circonstances on n'embêtait pas les amis à quoi serviraient-ils"" • Signed autograph letter to a friend‎

‎La Roche-Posay 1950. Fine. La Roche-Posay s. d. ca 1950 13.50 x 21 cm une page Autograph letter signed by Pierre Benoit sent from La Roche-Posay 15 lines in blue ink about friendship and his wife's failing health. Central fold marks perforations from filing in a binder causing no losses. ""La Roche-Posay. Very dear friend I will be in Paris from the 27th to October 2nd. Sad journey. My wife is not well at all and I am joining her to try to find out what is wrong. . . I will do everything to see you during my stay. If without these circumstances one didn't bother friends what would they be for"" Don't write to me! I am the one who will telephone you. All my affection. Pierre Benoit."" unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 85247

‎Pierre BENOIT‎

‎Lettre autographe signée à propos de son voyage en Orient et rédigée lors de son escale de Saïgon‎

‎Saïgon Hu Ngha 1961. Fine. Saïgon Hu Ngha 28 Février 1961 13.50 x 21 cm deux pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Pierre Benoit on Messageries Maritimes letterhead 21 lines in black ink on tracing paper regarding his cruise in the Orient. Central fold marks perforations due to filing in a binder having caused the absence of the first letter of Paris on the fourth line of the letter. Pierre Benoit rejoices in his Oriental journey and the welcome he received; stopping in Saigon he prepares to sail toward Japan: ""ce qui nous assure là-bas un programme tout à fait au point."" ""which ensures us a perfectly organized program there"" unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 84910

‎Pierre BENOIT‎

‎Lettre autographe datée et signée à propos de ses impressions de voyage qu'il souhaite partager avec son ami‎

‎Ciboure 1952. Fine. Ciboure 27 Octobre 1952 21 x 27 cm une page Autograph letter signed by Pierre Benoit from his property in Ciboure 19 lines in black ink. Central fold marks perforations due to filing in a binder having caused no loss. Pierre Benoit then at his Basque property in Ciboure: ""petit stage nécessaire avant le retour à Paris triage et mise en ordre de la correspondance."" brief stay necessary before returning to Paris sorting and organizing correspondence. discusses the reasons and interest of their upcoming meeting in Paris: "". le retour d'un tel voyage doit s'accompagner d'un certain nombre de ces conseils dans lesquels vous êtes passé maître."" . the return from such a journey must be accompanied by a certain number of those pieces of advice at which you have become a master. in order to share their latest travel memories: ""des impressions que je suppose toutes choses qui nécessitent quelques bons instants de tête en tête entre vous et moi."" impressions I suppose all things that require some good moments of private conversation between you and me. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 85013

‎Pierre BENOIT - (to Nadia CHARLANE)‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Pierre Benoit à Nadia Charlane‎

‎Paris 1940. Fine. Paris décembre 1940 11 x 14.40 cm une page sur une feuille Signed autograph letter from Pierre Benoit to Nadia Charlane written in black ink. This mail is a ""little blue"" paper provided by the post office that allowed mailings by pneumatic tubes in Paris these couriers were then delivered by couriers. Parisian address of Nadia Charlane on the back signature at the bottom of the letter day at the top of the letter. Pierre Benoît writes this letter to the actress following a misunderstanding about an appointment. He apologizes and proposes to his correspondent to pick her up at the station the next day. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 62642

‎Pierre LOTI‎

‎"Malade depuis hier matin je ne puis aller jusqu'à vous."" • Autograph note of Pierre Loti signed with his real name Julien Viaud‎

‎Hendaye 1910. Fine. Hendaye s. d. 11.30 x 9 cm une feuille Autograph note by Pierre Loti signed Julien Viaud. 8 lines in black ink on a card. ""Malade depuis hier matin je ne puis aller jusqu'à vous. J'aurais grand plaisir à vous voir ce soir entre 5 et 6h si vous n'avez rien de mieux à faire - où bien demain soir à la même heure si vous ne pouvez pas aujourd'hui"". ""Ill since yesterday morning I cannot come to you. I would have great pleasure in seeing you this evening between 5 and 6 o'clock if you have nothing better to do - or tomorrow evening at the same time if you cannot today"". unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 73229

‎Pierre LOUS‎

‎"Aujourd'hui après une journée qui a déjà duré 11 h je n'ai fumé qu'un demi paquet de cigarettes."" • Signed autograph card addressed to Georges Louis‎

‎Paris 1897. Fine. Paris s. d. après 1897 13.80 x 9 cm une carte autographe recto et verso Autograph card by Pierre Louÿs signed with his initial addressed to Georges Louis and written in violet ink on both sides. Note addressed to his brother Georges Louis with whom Pierre Louÿs maintained a very intimate relationship and whom he considered as his own father. The question of Pierre Louÿs's real paternal identity still fascinates biographers today: ""His father Pierre Philippe Louis . had married in 1842 Jeanne Constance Blanchin who died ten years later after giving him two children Lucie and Georges. In 1855 he remarried Claire Céline Maldan and from this union was born in 1857 a son Paul; then in 1870 our writer who received the given names Pierre Félix. This late birth the differences in character between father and son the former's disaffection toward the latter the profound intimacy that always reigned between Louÿs and his brother Georges all this has led certain biographers and critics to suspect that the latter was in reality the writer's father. The exceptionally intimate and constant relationship that Pierre and Georges maintained between themselves throughout their lives could be an argument in this direction. Of course no irrefutable proof has been discovered and probably never will be. Nevertheless certain letters . are quite troubling. In 1895 for example Louÿs writes seriously to his brother that he knows the answer to 'the most poignant question' he could ask him a question he has had 'on his lips for ten years.' The following year in the full triumph of Aphrodite he thanks Georges effusively and ends his letter with this sentence: 'Not one of my friends has a FATHER who is for him what you are for me.' Arguing from the close intimacy of Georges and Claire Céline during the year 1870 and the jealousy that the father never ceased to show toward his younger son Claude Farrère did not hesitate to conclude in favor of Georges Louis. And what to think of this dedication by Louÿs to his brother on a Japan paper copy of the first edition of Pausole: To Georges his eldest son / Pierre."" Jean-Paul Goujon Pierre Louÿs Pierre Louÿs revolutionizes his living conditions: ""I am taking serious care of myself. For two days now I have been going to bed at half past midnight to wake up between 9 and 10. Today after a day that has already lasted 11 hours I have only smoked half a pack of cigarettes. That's a quarter of my usual consumption during the same time. Moreover I walked more than a league on foot I took the air as much as I could.Well with all that I feel quite unwell or rather as if I were the day after a long and serious illness. Neither strength nor nerves. I have trouble listening speaking following an idea. Should this be attributed to my cigarette rationing It's possible. But honestly I don't think I have felt so low since '97 since the month when you came to see me in Algiers."" Amusing note from the most tobacco-addicted of writers nearly 60 cigarettes per day.! who wrote in Une volupté nouvelle: ""One night as I found myself there in silent conversation with two blue porcelain cats crouched on a white table I hesitated to choose between two pastimes of solitude: write a regular sonnet while smoking cigarettes or smoke cigarettes while looking at the ceiling carpet. The important thing is to always have a cigarette in hand; one must envelop objects in a celestial and fine cloud that bathes lights and shadows erases material angles and by a perfumed spell imposes on the agitated mind a variable balance from which it can fall into reverie."" unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 78160

‎Pierre LOUS‎

‎"Edison est en France."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Georges Louis‎

‎Paris 1911. Fine. Paris Lundi 11 septembre 1911 13.50 x 18 cm 5 pages sur un double feuillet et un feuillet libre Autograph letter signed by Pierre Louÿs addressed to Georges Louis. Five pages written in violet ink on a double leaf and a loose leaf. A press article pasted on the recto of the single leaf. Transverse creases inherent to posting. Fine letter addressed to his brother Georges Louis with whom Pierre Louÿs maintained a very intimate relationship and whom he considered as his own father. The question of the real identity of Pierre Louÿs's father still fascinates biographers today: ""His father Pierre Philippe Louis . had married in 1842 Jeanne Constance Blanchin who died ten years later after giving him two children Lucie and Georges. In 1855 he remarried Claire Céline Maldan and from this union was born in 1857 a son Paul; then in 1870 our writer who received the first names Pierre Félix. This late birth the differences in character between father and son the former's disaffection toward the latter the profound intimacy that always reigned between Louÿs and his brother Georges all this has led certain biographers and critics to suspect that the latter was in reality the writer's father. The exceptionally intimate and constant relationship that Pierre and Georges maintained between themselves all their lives could be an argument in this sense. Of course no irrefutable proof has been discovered and none will probably ever be discovered. Nevertheless certain letters . are quite disturbing. In 1895 for example Louÿs writes seriously to his brother that he knows the answer to ""the most poignant question"" he could ask him a question he has had ""on his lips for ten years."" The following year in the full triumph of Aphrodite he thanks Georges effusively and ends his letter with this sentence: ""Not one of my friends has a FATHER who is to him what you are to me."" Arguing from the close intimacy of Georges and Claire Céline during the year 1870 and the jealousy that the father never ceased to show toward his younger son Claude Farrère did not hesitate to conclude in favor of Georges Louis. And what to think of this dedication by Louÿs to his brother on a deluxe paper copy of the first edition of Pausole: For Georges his eldest son / Pierre."" Jean-Paul Goujon Pierre Louÿs Pierre Louÿs comments in this letter on Thomas Edison's visit to Paris: ""Edison is in France. Toward the end of last month a journalist questioned him. I regret not having kept the article."" The writer then launches into a true dialogue from his memories of said article paraphrasing the inventor in the manner of a witness who himself attended the interview: ""To the simple question ""Are you pleased with your trip"" Edison answered with amiable phrases and immediately on his own he brought the conversation to the subjects: Monoplane. War. He said I only repeat from memory the sense of what I read: He said in substance: ""You are not yet enthusiastic enough about the value of your new weapon: it is formidable. You take aeroplanes for scouts. Say first: combatants. From the heights where the monoplane evolves easily today there is an effective military power but especially an incalculable moral power."" He explained himself thus: ""Give grenades to an aviator who will drop them. Even if they are not very dangerous even if they rarely hit their target the entire enemy army will scatter like a flock of sheep under the flight of the eagle. Five six grenades falling from the sky will provoke panic terror. Nothing is frightening for a crowd like a peril that comes from above."" "" This ""remarkable interview"" related by the writer who finds that ""the theory is correct"" underlines the visionary character of Edison who seems here to relate the facts of the coming First World War. The erudite Pierre Louÿs illuminates this theory of ""Edison the prophet"" with his classical culture: ""It agrees with the old phrases about the limits of b unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 77520

‎Pierre LOUS‎

‎"Il est excellent le projet d'ouvrir le Panthéon aux héros qui ont tout offert à la Patrie jusqu'à perdre leur nom pour elle."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Georges Louis‎

‎Paris 1920. Fine. Paris s. d. novembre 1920 13.50 x 18 cm 4 pages sur 4 feuillets Autograph letter signed by Pierre Louÿs addressed to Georges Louis. Four pages written in blue ink on four sheets. Handsome letter addressed to his brother Georges Louis with whom Pierre Louÿs maintained a very intimate relationship and whom he considered as his own father. The question of Pierre Louÿs's real father's identity still fascinates biographers today: ""His father Pierre Philippe Louis . had married in 1842 Jeanne Constance Blanchin who died ten years later after having given him two children Lucie and Georges. In 1855 he remarried Claire Céline Maldan and from this union was born in 1857 a son Paul; then in 1870 our writer who received the first names Pierre Félix. This late birth the differences in character between father and son the former's disaffection toward the latter the profound intimacy that always reigned between Louÿs and his brother Georges all this has led certain biographers and critics to suspect that the latter was in reality the writer's father. The exceptionally intimate and constant relationship that Pierre and Georges maintained between them throughout their lives could be an argument in this sense. Of course no irrefutable proof has been discovered and probably never will be. Nevertheless certain letters . are quite troubling. In 1895 for example Louÿs writes gravely to his brother that he knows the answer to 'the most poignant question' he could ask him a question he has had 'on his lips for ten years.' The following year at the height of Aphrodite's triumph he thanks Georges effusively and ends his letter with this sentence: 'Not one of my friends has a FATHER who is to him what you are to me.' Arguing from the close intimacy between Georges and Claire Céline during the year 1870 and from the jealousy that the father never ceased to show toward his younger son Claude Farrère did not hesitate to conclude in favor of Georges Louis. And what to think of this dedication by Louÿs to his brother on a deluxe copy of the first edition of Pausole: To Georges his eldest son / Pierre."" Jean-Paul Goujon Pierre Louÿs This letter was written after the First World War: ""The project to open the Panthéon to heroes who offered everything to the Fatherland even losing their name for her is excellent. And it would be for the archbishopric of Paris an unhoped-for opportunity to spontaneously render to our great dead of the crypt the respects that it alone in the world denies them. It would thus repair an error that has lasted too long for its glory. Cemeteries are deconsecrated. No theological reason can attribute to them a more religious character than to the basement of a monument surmounted by a colossal cross and sanctified by ashes."" Indeed in November 1920 Charles Dumont the general budget reporter expressed his wish to bring the unknown soldier into the Panthéon. Finally only the ceremony took place there and the remains of the most famous of the combatants remained as everyone knows under the Arc de Triomphe. The only soldier to join the Panthéon Maurice Genevoix would not enter until a hundred years later on November 11 2020. Louÿs concludes his letter with a very handsome tribute to the writer he has always admired: ""One is ill-advised to forbid the faithful such a pilgrimage. They do it. For immense humanity the earth where Hugo's corpse lay down is holy ground."" unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 78161

‎Pierre LOUS‎

‎"Mon souhait ce serait que nous choisissions deux petites maisons contigües près de Paris. "" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Georges Louis‎

‎Tamaris Tamaris-sur-mer 1907. Fine. Tamaris Tamaris-sur-mer 19 juin 1907 13.50 x 20.50 cm 4 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Pierre Louÿs addressed to Georges Louis. Four pages written in purple ink on a double sheet. Envelope included. Fine letter addressed to his brother Georges Louis with whom Pierre Louÿs maintained a very intimate relationship and whom he considered as his own father. The question of Pierre Louÿs's real paternal identity still fascinates biographers today: ""His father Pierre Philippe Louis . had married in 1842 Jeanne Constance Blanchin who died ten years later after giving him two children Lucie and Georges. In 1855 he remarried Claire Céline Maldan and from this union was born in 1857 a son Paul; then in 1870 our writer who received the first names Pierre Félix. This late birth the differences in character between father and son the first's disaffection toward the second the profound intimacy that always reigned between Louÿs and his brother Georges all this has led certain biographers and critics to suspect that the latter was in reality the writer's father. The exceptionally intimate and constant relationship that Pierre and Georges maintained between them throughout their lives could be an argument in this sense. Of course no irrefutable proof has been discovered and none will probably ever be discovered. Nevertheless certain letters . are quite troubling. In 1895 for example Louÿs writes seriously to his brother that he knows the answer to 'the most poignant question' he could ask him a question he has had 'on his lips for ten years.' The following year in the midst of Aphrodite's triumph he thanks Georges effusively and ends his letter with this sentence: 'Not one of my friends has a FATHER who is to him what you are to me.' Arguing from the close intimacy of Georges and Claire Céline during the year 1870 and from the jealousy that the father never ceased to show toward his younger son Claude Farrère did not hesitate to conclude in favor of Georges Louis. And what to think of this dedication by Louÿs to his brother on a Japan paper copy of the first edition of Pausole: To Georges his eldest son / Pierre."" Jean-Paul Goujon Pierre Louÿs Written from Tamaris where the writer is on vacation and attempting to buy Psyché this fine letter forms a veritable ode to literature and bibliophilia. Louÿs ""fills two pages of letter on this question"" and indeed writes: ""When I leave I always lock everything up so that my maids don't browse through my books in my absence which would be disastrous. I unfortunately have book titles that could sometimes tempt them. . What to do Leave you the keys I would certainly do so if I were leaving for six months but for a short absence. . I don't have duplicates and . the key to my study locks up my desk which is the soul of the house."" Georges very quickly transmitted to his brother the love of books and texts and the latter recalls here this profound spiritual communion: ""When I look at my library I constantly regret that you don't benefit from it more. I would always like to unite it with yours and that the day when your life is free you would only have to leave your bedroom to take from my place what you desire."" Although happy to take some leave he misses his brother: ""That's somewhat what prevents me from loving Biarritz it's that I see there a threat of such complete separation for us both. . I couldn't follow you there and I would only see you one or two months a year; that frightens me. My wish would be that we choose two small adjoining houses near Paris. . But it's not time to speak of it."" This sentimental reverie of a future together quickly gives way to a long passage concerning international politics and the game of European alliances. Georges is then Director of Political Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay and the two brothers naturally discuss this subject: ""The circle of alliances built in recent unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 77513

‎Pierre LOUS‎

‎"Sais-tu qu'avant quinze jours je serai auprès de toi . Puis-je espérer que d'ici là tu auras repris un peu de forces "" • Autograph letter from his youth one of the last addressed to his father Pierre-Philippe Louis‎

‎Paris 1889. Fine. Paris jeudi 4 avril 1889 12.50 x 20 cm 4 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Pierre Louÿs addressed to his father four pages written in black ink on a double sheet of white paper. Transverse folds inherent to folding for mailing. This letter was sent by the young Pierre Louÿs while he was studying at the Janson-de-Sailly lycée Paris - 16th arrondissement. This is very likely one of Pierre Louÿs's last letters to his father ten days before the latter's death: ""Do you know that in less than two weeks I will be beside you . May I hope that by then you will have regained some strength"" The question of Pierre Louÿs's real paternal identity still fascinates biographers today: ""His father Pierre Philippe Louis . had married in 1842 Jeanne Constance Blanchin who died ten years later after giving him two children Lucie and Georges. In 1855 he remarried Claire Céline Maldan and from this union was born in 1857 a son Paul; then in 1870 our writer who received the first names Pierre Félix. This late birth the differences in character between father and son the first's disaffection toward the second the profound intimacy that always reigned between Louÿs and his brother Georges all this has led certain biographers and critics to suspect that the latter was in reality the writer's father. The exceptionally intimate and constant relationship that Pierre and Georges maintained between them throughout their lives could be an argument in this sense. Of course no irrefutable proof has been discovered and none will probably ever be discovered. Nevertheless certain letters . are quite troubling. In 1895 for example Louÿs writes seriously to his brother that he knows the answer to 'the most poignant question' he could ask him a question he has had 'on his lips for ten years.' The following year in the midst of Aphrodite's triumph he thanks Georges effusively and ends his letter with this sentence: 'Not one of my friends has a FATHER who is to him what you are to me.' Arguing from the close intimacy of Georges and Claire Céline during the year 1870 and from the jealousy that the father never ceased to show toward his younger son Claude Farrère did not hesitate to conclude in favor of Georges Louis. And what to think of this dedication by Louÿs to his brother on a Japan paper copy of the first edition of Pausole: To Georges his eldest son / Pierre."" Jean-Paul Goujon Pierre Louÿs Pierre Louÿs was only nine years old when his mother died suddenly. The father from then on entrusted his education to his brother Georges twenty years his senior and Pierre then joined him in Paris where he attended the École Alsacienne then the Janson-de-Sailly lycée. Despite the little affection shown to him the young man writes every week to his ""dear papa"" residing at Dizy-Magenta near Épernay. The young man inquires about his poor health: ""May I hope that by then you will have regained some strength No doubt. Your eczema we hope will not have worsened; and the green leaves that are beginning to appear will perhaps give you hope yourself for improvement next summer."" The ""improvement"" would sadly never come and Pierre Philippe Louis would breathe his last on April 14 1889. In the meantime Pierre Louÿs gives family news more precisely about Germaine his sister Lucie's daughter: ""Today I went to rue de la Santé to get news of Germaine. I found the little one who had been operated on in very good condition very cheerful and in good health. She was up and playing on the floor. . Finally I ended my day by going to my aunt Marie's and to Elisabeth's. Everyone is well in both houses."" As usual always anxious not to disappoint his father he finally transmits his school results: ""I return to the lycée tomorrow did Georges tell you that I was second in English"" unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 77511

‎Pierre LOUS‎

‎Carte lettre autographe signée adressée à Georges Louis‎

‎Paris 1887. Fine. Paris juillet 1887 11.20 x 14.20 cm une carte-lettre Autograph signed letter-card from Pierre Louÿs addressed to his brother Georges Louis with whom Pierre Louÿs maintained a very intimate relationship and whom he considered as his own father. The question of Pierre Louÿs's real paternal identity still fascinates biographers today: ""His father Pierre Philippe Louis . had married in 1842 Jeanne Constance Blanchin who died ten years later after having given him two children Lucie and Georges. In 1855 he remarried Claire Céline Maldan and from this union was born in 1857 a son Paul; then in 1870 our writer who received the first names Pierre Félix. This late birth the differences in character between father and son the former's disaffection toward the latter the profound intimacy that always reigned between Louÿs and his brother Georges all this has led certain biographers and critics to suspect that the latter was in reality the writer's father. The exceptionally intimate and constant relationship that Pierre and Georges maintained between them throughout their lives could be an argument in this sense. Of course no irrefutable proof has been discovered and none probably ever will be. Nevertheless certain letters . are quite troubling. In 1895 for example Louÿs writes seriously to his brother that he knows the answer to 'the most poignant question' he could ask him a question he has had 'on his lips for ten years.' The following year in the full triumph of Aphrodite he thanks Georges effusively and ends his letter with this sentence: 'Not one of my friends has a FATHER who is for him what you are for me.' Arguing from the close intimacy of Georges and Claire Céline during the year 1870 and from the jealousy that the father never ceased to show toward his younger son Claude Farrère did not hesitate to conclude in favor of Georges Louis. And what to think of this dedication from Louÿs to his brother on a Japan paper copy of the first edition of Pausole: For Georges his eldest son / Pierre."" Jean-Paul Goujon Pierre Louÿs Brief note to his brother upon arrival in Epernay: ""Rien de nouveau. Personne à la gare. J'ai fait très bon voyage. Mon bouquin était mourant d'ennui et mes trois voisins aussi. Je t'embrasse. Pierre"" ""Nothing new. Nobody at the station. I had a very good journey. My book was dying of boredom and so were my three neighbors. I embrace you. Pierre"" unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 78441

‎Pierre LOUS‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de 20 pages adressée à Georges Louis : ""Et j'ai une grande nouvelle à t'annoncer qui décidera du bonheur de ma vie : je me marie.""‎

‎Dizy Dizy-le-Gros 1888. Fine. Dizy Dizy-le-Gros samedi 15 septembre 1888 13.70 x 21.20 cm 20 pages sur 5 doubles feuillets & une enveloppe Very long autograph letter signed by Pierre Louÿs addressed to Georges Louis. Twenty pages written in blue ink on five double sheets of graph paper. Enclosed is an envelope on which is written in pencil in Pierre Louÿs's hand: ""Letter of 20 pages about my stay in Limé"" Amusing letter addressed to his brother Georges Louis with whom Pierre Louÿs maintained a very intimate relationship and whom he considered as his own father. The question of Pierre Louÿs's real father's identity still fascinates biographers today: ""His father Pierre Philippe Louis . had married in 1842 Jeanne Constance Blanchin who died ten years later after having given him two children Lucie and Georges. In 1855 he remarried Claire Céline Maldan and from this union was born in 1857 a son Paul; then in 1870 our writer who received the first names Pierre Félix. This late birth the differences in character between father and son the former's disaffection toward the latter the profound intimacy that always reigned between Louÿs and his brother Georges all this has led certain biographers and critics to suspect that the latter was in reality the writer's father. The exceptionally intimate and constant relationship that Pierre and Georges maintained between them throughout their lives could be an argument in this sense. Of course no irrefutable proof has been discovered and probably never will be. Nevertheless certain letters . are quite troubling. In 1895 for example Louÿs writes gravely to his brother that he knows the answer to 'the most poignant question' he could ask him a question he has had 'on his lips for ten years.' The following year at the height of Aphrodite's triumph he thanks Georges effusively and ends his letter with this sentence: 'Not one of my friends has a FATHER who is to him what you are to me.' Arguing from the close intimacy between Georges and Claire Céline during the year 1870 and from the jealousy that the father never ceased to show toward his younger son Claude Farrère did not hesitate to conclude in favor of Georges Louis. And what to think of this dedication by Louÿs to his brother on a deluxe copy of the first edition of Pausole: To Georges his eldest son / Pierre."" Jean-Paul Goujon Pierre Louÿs In this titillating letter bearing at the top the mention ""Papa doesn't know I'm writing you this letter"" underlined three times young Pierre Louÿs eighteen years old tells his elder about his vacation in Limé Aisne with the Glatron family. Visibly very excited he announces to his brother after some brief family news: ""And I have great news to announce to you which will decide the happiness of my life: I'm getting married. Don't look for a match for me anymore: I've found one."" In order to keep his reader in suspense he first tells him at length about his stay in Limé and paints a portrait of the Glatron family: ""Here first is the introduction to the little work I'm sending you by way of a letter and which may be very boring. It's the tableau of the Glatron family; it amused me to study them a bit while I was there. I wanted to find for each of them three or four words to paint them completely but I soon realized that I couldn't do so for any of them."" Far from being ""boring"" this very long passage allows Pierre Louÿs to deploy his talents as storyteller and caricaturist. Each member receives a colorful description ""the queen mother"" ""a nonentity"" ""a very special character"" ""petrified phlegm"" ""a repetitive Paulus"" ""the little invalid"". and Louÿs also gives pride of place to dialogues which he deliberately exaggerates: ""'I tell you that you took her by the waist! I saw you! Don't say no I saw you!'"" These humorous observations continue with the quasi-anthropological description of a village festival in Limé: ""I arrived in Limé the day before the patron saint's festival. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 78162

‎Pierre MAC ORLAN‎

‎Lettre autographe datée et signée au jeune poète artésien Roger Valuet l'encourageant à lui adresser ses poèmes‎

‎Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin: S. n. 1947. Fine. S. n. Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin 20 Décembre 1947 13.50 x 21.50 cm une feuille Autograph letter dated and signed by Pierre Mac Orlan 15 lines in turquoise ink to the budding poet Roger Valuet. Fold marks inherent to postal envelope. He urges his young colleague to send him his latest writings: ""Bien sûr ! Envoyez-moi vos poèmes dès que vous les aurez réunis. Je les lirai et vous répondrai à ce sujet."" ""Of course! Send me your poems as soon as you have gathered them together. I will read them and respond to you on the subject."" and hopes to return to the North to see him again: ""Je ne désespère pas de revenir à Arras dans le début de printemps prochain si. Votre vieil ami."" ""I do not despair of returning to Arras at the beginning of next spring if. Your old friend."" Originally from Arras Roger Valuet is a popular writer who signed under the pseudonym Roger Vilard numerous detective and spy novels. At the beginning of his career he was helped by Pierre Mac Orlan who wrote the preface to his first collection of poems. S. n. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 84007

‎Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Pierre Puvis de Chavannes‎

‎Paris 1898. Fine. Paris 9 mai 1898 12 x 15 cm un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes dated May 9 1898 19 lines in black ink on letterhead with the address of the mansion of his wife Marie Cantacuzène ""89 avenue de Villiers"" . A moving letter of thanks from the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: "" The thought of associating my work . with your own paternal feeling leaves me an inexpressible impression intimate full of emotion. "" unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 64430

‎Pierre, Viktor, Physiker (1819-1886).‎

‎Eigenh. Brief mit U. Wien, 5. I. 1886.‎

‎2 SS. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo. Mit eh. adr. Kuvert. An den Physiker Albert von Ettingshausen: "Es freut mich sehr, daß die Ihnen zugesendeten Kabelmuster Ihren Wünschen entsprochen haben und bitte ich über sie so lange zu verfügen als sie für wünschenswerth erachten. Indem ich für Ihre intressanten Mittheilungen über den von Ihnen construirten Condensator und die mit ihm angestellten Versuche bestens danke und Ihnen meine geringen Künste jederzeit mit Vergnügen zu Gebote stelle, füge ich nur noch die Bitte bei auch meinerseits Hrn. Prof. Boltzmann meine besten Grüße und Empfehlungen überbringen zu wollen [...]".‎

‎PIERRE-BLOCH, Jean‎

‎Le temps d'y penser encore [ Livre dédicacé par l'auteur ]‎

‎1 vol. in-8 br., Jean-Claude Simoën, 1977, 273 pp. Homme politique socialiste Jean Pierre-Bloch (1905-1999) fut longtemps le président de la LICRA (de 1968 à 1993). Etat très satisfaisant (couv. lég. frottée, bon état par ailleurs), pour cet exemplaire enrichi d'une belle dédicace de l'auteur. Français‎

‎PIERROT, Achille, de Nomexy (Vosges), Elève de l'Ecole du Service de Santé Militaire‎

‎De l'Insomnie. Thèse présentée à la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, soutenue le 9 janvier 1869 [ Edition originale - Livre dédicacé par l'auteur ]‎

‎1 vol. in-4 br., Imprimerie d'Ad. Christophe, Strasbourg, 1869, 74 pp. Très bon état. Envoi de l'auteur au docteur Ducourneau. L'Ecole Impériale du Service de Santé Militaire de Strasbourg fut instituée 1856 par Napoléon III et formera près de 1054 médecins pendant ses 14 années de fonctionnement. Français‎

‎PIET, Tony (1906-81)‎

‎Signature‎

‎Second and third baseman with the Pittsburgh Pirates and elsewhere debuting in 1931. Bold signature in black fountain pen 5" X 3" card n.p. n.y. Near fine. Handsome later life example. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 23129

‎Pietsch, Ludwig, Zeichner und Feuilletonist (1824-1911).‎

‎Eigenh. Brief mit U. O. O., 15. III. 1910.‎

‎3 SS. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo. An die Malerin Luise Begas-Parmentier (1850-1920) mit dem Bedauern, "leider durch Krankheit am Ausgehen verhindert" zu sein und deswegen an einem Empfang im Atelier nicht teilnehmen zu können, weswegen er aus Anlaß des Geburtstages (von Begas-Parmentiers Tochter?) nur einen "bescheidenen Blumengruß darzubringen" sich anschicke. - Pietsch illustrierte u. a. Werke von Storm, Immensee, Reuter und Goethe, war für mehrere Zeitungen tätig und seit 1864 als Feuilletonredakteur im Dienst der "Vossischen Zeitung", für die er über das kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Leben in Berlin, über den Deutsch-Französischen Krieg, die Eröffnung des Suez-Kanals sowie über seine Reisen nach Rußland, Sizilien und Griechenland berichtete. - Die Malerin und Graphikerin Luise Begas-Parmentier studierte bei Emil Jacob Schindler und William Unger; seit 1877 in Berlin ansässig, malte sie vorwiegend romantisch verklärte Landschaften und Architekturbilder mit Motiven aus Österreich, Deutschland und Italien sowie Blumenstücke in Öl und Aquarell. - Auf Briefpapier mit gepr. Monogramm.‎

‎Pietschmann, Ernst Max, German painter (1865-1952).‎

‎Autograph quotation signed. Niederpoyritz, 26. IX. 1917.‎

‎Oblong 8vo (postcard). 1 page. Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau: "Heiter sei das Leben, Ernst die Kunst! [...]". - A member of the artists' colony in Goppen near Dresden, Pietschmann specialized in plein air painting, spent several years studying nude painting in Italy and Paris, and created popular chromolithographs of landscapes and genre scenes under the pseudonym "François Laubnitz" which were frequently used for interior decorations during the first half of the 20th century. - Traces of a postmark near upper left corner; small brown stain at lower margin; postmark on verso slightly showing through. Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.‎

‎PIEYRE DE MANDIARGUES André‎

‎La nuit séculaire‎

‎- Gallimard, Paris 1979, 14x20,5cm, broché. - Edition originale, un des exemplaires du service de presse. Envoi autographe signé d'André Pieyre de Mandiargues à Henri Parisot. Piqûres marginales sur le premier plat. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]‎

‎Piffl, Friedrich Gustav, Kardinal-Erzbischof von Wien (1864-1932).‎

‎Eigenh. Bildpostkarte mit U. ("Fr. G. Piffl"). Rom, 17. XII. 1928.‎

‎½ S. (Qu.-)8vo. Mit eh. Adresse. Grüße aus Rom an Domherr Josef Wagner in Wien. - F. G. Piffl wurde 1907 Propst des Stifts Klosterneuburg, 1913 Erzbischof von Wien, 1914 Kardinal und war seit 1922 auch Apostolischer Administrator des Burgenlandes. Er gründete das "Wiener Kirchenblatt" und gehörte zu den Begründern des "Kleinen Volksblatts", förderte das Kolpingwerk, die christliche Arbeiter- und Gewerkschaftsbewegung und führte 1927 in Wien die "Katholische Aktion" ein.‎

‎Piffl, Friedrich, Erzbischof von Wien (1864-1932).‎

‎Ms. Brief mit eigenh. U. Wien, Februar 1916.‎

‎4 SS. auf Doppelblatt. Folio. An einen namentlich nicht genannten Adressaten: "Namens der leitenden Kommission der 'Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich" beehren sich die Unterzeichneten das höfliche und dringende Ersuchen zu stellen um gütige Beteiligung an der Zeichnung eines Garantiefonds für die 'Denkmäler' [...]". - Im Jahr 1914 zum Kardinal ernannt, war Piffl seit 1922 auch Apostolischer Administrator des Burgenlandes. Piffl gründete das "Wiener Kirchenblatt" und gehörte zu den Begründern des "Kleinen Volksblatts". Er förderte das Kolpingwerk, die christliche Arbeiter- und Gewerkschaftsbewegung und führte 1927 in Wien die "Katholische Aktion" ein. - Auf Briefpapier mit gedr. Briefkopf der "Denkmäler".‎

‎Piffl, Friedrich, Kardinal-Erzbischof von Wien (1864-1932).‎

‎Eigenh. Brief mit U. Wien, 12. XII. 1931.‎

‎¾ S. Gr.-4to. An einen namentlich nicht genannten Generaldirektor, d. i. Baurat Egon Ewald Seefehlner (1874-1946), ein Eisenbahnfachmann und Elektrotechniker und der damalige Generaldirektor der Österreichischen Bundesbahnen: "Für Ihr überaus liebenswürdiges Entgegenkommen gegenüber meinem Schützling Wurzinger bitte ich meinen herzlichsten und ergebensten Dank entgegenzunehmen [...]". - Friedrich Piffl wurde 1907 Propst des Stifts Klosterneuburg, 1913 Erzbischof von Wien, 1914 Kardinal und war seit 1922 auch Apostolischer Administrator des Burgenlandes. Er gründete das "Wiener Kirchenblatt" und gehörte zu den Begründern des "Kleinen Volksblatts", förderte das Kolpingwerk, die christliche Arbeiter- und Gewerkschaftsbewegung und führte 1927 in Wien die "Katholische Aktion" ein. - Auf Briefpapier mit gedr. Briefkopf des Kardinal-Erzbischofs von Wien; etwas knittrig und mit einem kleinen Randeinriß.‎