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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
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Jacques MESRINE
"Sais-tu que je commence à me plaire ici. Quel calme tu sais manou"" Beautiful autograph love letter dated and signed by Jacques Mesrine full of revolt against journalists and full of admiration for the intimates written from the prison of Fleury-Mérogis and addressed to his companion Jeanne Schneider
Fleury-Mérogis 1976. Fine. ""She's an exceptional woman . I considered her like a mother . Woe to anyone who would touch a single hair on her head."" Fleury-Mérogis 22 Septembre1976 21 x 29.50 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter dated and signed by Jacques Mesrine dated Saturday September 22 1976 67 lines in blue ink on one page recto verso addressed to his love of the time Jeanne Schneider thanks to whom the manuscript of Instinct de mort was discreetly smuggled out of prison. Jacques Mesrine then incarcerated at Fleury-Mérogis prison and deprived of human warmth is enthusiastic about all the visits he receives in the visiting room thus dispelling the myth of the antisocial bandit devoid of human feelings: ""And after that they'll say I'm a savage! No quite the contrary and people who have had contact with me want to see me again. This gave me immense pleasure and do you know what happened next. she's also going to ask to see you. Apparently I'm missed by the nurses 'mister smile' that's the secret."" He particularly appreciated the visit from the nurse at La Santé prison who would also be their wedding witness with Jeanne Schneider and whom he praises: "". an enormous surprise! You'll never guess who came to see me! My nurse from La Santé. yes my darling. that charming lady with white hair whom you had seen in the visiting room at La Santé and who is to be our witness at our wedding . She's an exceptional woman a former military nurse and quite well-placed in the ministry. During my 2 and a half years at La Santé I considered her like a mother this woman is so devoted it's unthinkable. Woe to anyone who would touch a single hair on her head."" Public enemy No. 1 takes the opportunity again to break this reputation as a bloodthirsty beast that sticks to him: ""If journalists knew that all the nurses entered my cell alone and with complete confidence we'd be far from the 'beast' and hostage-taking à la Buffet. Nurses have always been sacred to me. They are untouchable like quite a few other people but those journalist faggots don't know that; because they're not in my thoughts and that's regrettable sometimes."" Jacques Mesrine the rebel is surprised to find himself appreciating his prison solitude: ""Do you know that I'm beginning to like it here. What calm you know manou my isolation I bear it insofar as I have peace. In detention it's not proven that I would have it. It's my reactions I'm afraid of. and the mentality of so-called crooks is increasingly disgusting! . in my isolation there's good and bad. but personally I don't want to complain. because there's no reason to do so."" and ends his letter with paternal considerations for his daughter who is not very assiduous at school and for whom he worries: ""I'm going to find out if Sabrina has been regularly attending her classes. I hope so because if the opposite were the case. no mercy this time. But what worry this kid can represent and what powerlessness I have to control her being here!"" Rare and very fine letter from Jacques Mesrine overflowing with reverence for the nursing profession and regrettable detestation for that of journalists. unknown
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Pierre BENOIT
"Vous êtes comme moi à peu près en règle avec les lettres de nouvel an. Ne nous considérons pas l'un pour l'autre comme appartenant à ce genre de fournées."" Autograph letter signed with regard to the epistolary obligations of New Year's wishes
Ciboure 1960. Fine. Ciboure 14 Février ca 1960 21 x 27 cm une page Autograph letter signed by Pierre Benoit from his property in Ciboure 15 lines in black ink. Central fold marks perforations due to filing in a binder having caused no loss. Pierre Benoit will soon be in Paris and will have the pleasure of meeting his friend: ""j'aurais une vraie joie à faire en tête avec vous dans un déjeuner discret un petit tour d'horizon."" I would have true joy in having a private conversation with you over a discreet lunch a brief survey of things. when the latter has determined according to his schedule a date for their meeting: ""Consultez votre emploi du temps et donnez-moi un coup de téléphone de préférence le matin vers 10 heures moment qui convient aux travailleurs que nous sommes."" Check your schedule and give me a telephone call preferably in the morning around 10 o'clock a time that suits workers like us. unknown
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Jean GIONO
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Roger Nimier
s. l. 1952. Fine. s. l. ca 1952 21 x 27 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by Jean Giono 9 lines in black ink addressed to Roger Nimier. Fold mark inherent to postal handling. ""Dear Nimier thank you for your letter; and for letting me hope for your visit. I should point out right away that I will be absent Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th. Apart from those two days your collaborators can come whenever they wish. My friendship. Jean Giono."" Very visual letter bearing the beautiful signature of Jean Giono. unknown
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Victor SEGALEN
"Faire comprendre à Mlle D. qu'il me serait extrêmement pénible de répondre à ses lettres qui ne pourraient être que de condoléances.autant celles d'amis comme toi me seraient apaisantes autant des consolations féminines même bien intentionnées je n'en doute pas me seraient insupportables."" Autograph letter dated and signed sent from Brest and addressed to his childhood friend Emile Mignard
Brest 1899. Fine. Brest 3 Octobre 1899 11 x 17 cm 1 page et demi sur un feuillet double Autograph letter dated and signed by Victor Segalen addressed to Emile Mignard one and a half pages 24 lines written in black ink on a double sheet. Traces of transverse folds inherent to postal delivery. Trace of white paper tab. Emile Mignard 1878-1966 also a doctor from Brest was one of Segalen's closest childhood friends whom he met at the Jesuit college Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours in Brest. The writer maintained with this companion an abundant and regular correspondence in which he described with humor and intimacy his daily life in the four corners of the globe. It was at Mignard's wedding on February 15 1905 that Segalen met his wife Yvonne Hébert. It was in 1899 that Victor Segalen's first nervous disorders manifested themselves which would only worsen as he advanced in age. Worried about his already failing health his friends and relatives wanted to hear news of him which sometimes exasperated him: ""Faire comprendre à Mlle D. qu'il me serait extrêmement pénible de répondre à ses lettres qui ne pourraient être que de condoléances.autant celles d'amis comme toi me seraient apaisantes autant des consolations féminines même bien intentionnées je n'en doute pas me seraient insupportables."" Make Miss D. understand that it would be extremely painful for me to respond to her letters which could only be of condolence.while those from friends like you would be soothing to me feminine consolations even well-intentioned I have no doubt would be unbearable to me. Victor Segalen thus declares his profound intimacy with Emile Mignard with whom he had undertaken that same year a cycling tour in Brittany and to whom he confided fully. Fleeing certain relationships he desired to maintain despite his illness his privileged friendship with the latter: "". ne reviendrai qu'après un détour dont je ne prévois pas la durée. Mais j'ai le temps et le désir d'avoir de tes nouvelles."" .will only return after a detour whose duration I cannot foresee. But I have the time and desire to hear from you. Knowing his friend to be understanding and respectful of his reserve the convalescent Victor Segalen did not wish to elaborate further on the illness that was already consuming him: ""Tu sens que je ne puis en écrire plus long n'ayant en ce moment pas le choix des sujets mais tu ne m'en voudras j'en suis sûr pas."" You feel that I cannot write at greater length not having at this moment a choice of subjects but you will not hold it against me I am sure. Autograph letters by Victor Segalen are extremely rare. unknown
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Pierre BENOIT
Lettre autographe signée concernant des festivités qu'il doit organiser avec son correspondant et des personnalités à inviter
Ciboure 1950. Fine. Ciboure 26 Septembre 1950 21 x 27 cm une page Autograph letter signed by Pierre Benoit from his property in Ciboure 21 lines in black ink. Traces of central folds perforations due to filing in a binder causing no loss one scissors cut in left margin of the letter. ""26 septembre. Mon cher ami à peine le facteur venait-il de tourner les talons emportant la lettre que je venais d'achever pour vous qu'un coup de téléphone de notre ami commun me mettait en demeure de vous en écrire une seconde ! Alors c'est donc vrai c'est vous qui assurez la charge de collaborer avec mon éditeur et le directeur du cabinet de Giaccobi pour régler la petite fête du 4 Novembre Je vous en remercie d'autant plus que ne devant revenir à Paris que le 28 Octobre je ne puis pas vous être d'un grand appui. Par le même courrier je préviens mon éditeur Robert Esmenard owner of Albin Michel publishing house . . Esmenard est habitué de ce genre de manifestation car il donne des réceptions de ce genre pour fêter d'illustres auteurs étrangers. Il a donc des listes et une formule d'invitation.Le tout sera de panacher ces listes avec la liste corse de Giaccobi. Et de mon côté je vous demande de veiller à ce que Messagenès Fabre Transat sans oublier bien entendu le C.T.O. soit à l'honneur. Enfin je suis assuré ainsi d'avoir une occasion pas trop éloignée de revoir Madame Louis Brun et son mari. Toute ma fidèle amitié Pierre Benoit."" September 26. My dear friend hardly had the postman turned on his heels carrying off the letter I had just finished for you when a telephone call from our mutual friend put me under obligation to write you a second one! So is it really true Is it you who is taking charge of collaborating with my publisher and the director of Giaccobi's office to arrange the little celebration of November 4th I thank you all the more since not having to return to Paris until October 28th I cannot be of great assistance to you. By the same post I am notifying my publisher Robert Esmenard. . Esmenard is accustomed to this kind of event as he gives receptions of this sort to celebrate illustrious foreign authors. He therefore has lists and an invitation formula. The whole thing will be to blend these lists with Giaccobi's Corsican list. And for my part I ask you to see that Messagenès Fabre Transat without forgetting of course the C.T.O. are honored. Finally I am thus assured of having an opportunity not too distant to see Madame Louis Brun and her husband again. All my faithful friendship Pierre Benoit. unknown
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Jean GIONO
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Roger Nimier à propos d'un texte qu'il doit envoyer
s. l. 1952. Fine. s. l. ca 1952 21 x 27 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by Jean Giono 8 lines in black ink addressed to Roger Nimier. Fold marks inherent to the mailing. ""Cher Nimier votre lettre expresse me surprend. On vous a adressé un texte par paquet recommandé il y a quelques jours. La suite vous parviendra. C'est intitulé : Angelo à Milan. Dites moi si vous l'avez reçu et si ça vous va. L'amitié. Jean Giono."" Dear Nimier your express letter surprises me. We sent you a text by registered parcel a few days ago. The continuation will reach you. It's entitled: Angelo à Milan. Tell me if you received it and if it suits you. In friendship. Jean Giono. A very visual letter bearing Jean Giono's handsome signature. unknown
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Jacques MESRINE
"Mais le plus important est que tu retrouves cette pute de liberté. Après ce sera aux avocates de jouer pour un régime plus souple. Je te parle comme si tu étais déjà libre.Que ""veux-tu"" j'y crois. . Je lutte et je lutterai toujours pour toi car je t'aime."" Autograph love letter dated and signed by Jacques Mesrine written from the prison of Fleury-Mérogis and addressed to his companion Jeanne Schneider about the fight for his provisional release
Fleury-Mérogis 1976. Fine. Fleury-Mérogis 18 Octobre 1976 21 x 29.50 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter dated and signed by Jacques Mesrine dated Monday October 18 1976 68 lines in blue ink on one recto-verso page addressed to his love of the time Jeanne Schneider thanks to whom the manuscript of theInstinct de mort was discreetly smuggled out of prison. Jacques Mesrine then incarcerated at Fleury-Mérogis prison seeks to reassure his love whom he is helping through his lawyers so that she might obtain provisional freedom: ""C'est que je sens que cela va être bon et cela malgré que les avocates m'avaient déconseillé de le faire. tu sais que je fais de la prémonition mais dans le bon sens. Je sais que ma lettre les fait réfléchir. cela j'en suis certain. C'est la première fois que j'interviens pour toi. Ca aussi a de l'importance."" ""It's that I feel this is going to be good despite my lawyers having advised me against doing it. you know I have premonitions but in a good way. I know my letter makes them think. of this I am certain. This is the first time I'm intervening for you. That too is important."" and thanks to whom she should regain freedom: ""Mais le plus important est que tu retrouves cette pute de liberté. Après ce sera aux avocates de jouer pour un régime plus souple. Je te parle comme si tu étais déjà libre.Que ""veux-tu"" j'y crois."" ""But the most important thing is that you regain this damn freedom. After that it will be up to the lawyers to work for a more lenient regime. I'm talking to you as if you were already free. What can I say I believe in it."" Overflowing with enthusiasm and certainty for the success of these proceedings regarding Jeanne's provisional freedom and sure of the weight of his intervention the indomitable Mesrine fumes at the idea of a hypothetical refusal by the prison authorities: ""Quel affreux pirate qui te donne de l'espoir. Non mon ange je ne sais absolument rien. Sauf que le Président a dit que je le menaçais sur ma lettre. J'ai été très dur et à juste raison car la plaisanterie a assez durée. Toi tu supporteras ton refus. moi je ne l'accepterai plus. C'est pas plus compliqué que cela. Car tu as assez payé. même trop."" ""What a terrible pirate giving you hope. No my angel I know absolutely nothing. Except that the President said I was threatening him in my letter. I was very harsh and rightly so because the joke has gone on long enough. You will endure your refusal. I will no longer accept it. It's no more complicated than that. Because you have paid enough. even too much."" Public enemy No. 1 takes the opportunity again to shatter this reputation as a bloodthirsty beast that sticks to his skin: ""Si les journalistes savaient que toutes les infirmières entraient seules dans ma cellule et en toute confiance on serait loin du ""fauve"" et de la prise d'otages à la Buffet. Les infirmières ont toujours été sacrées pour moi. Elles sont intouchables comme pas mal d'autres personnes mais cela les pédés de journalistes l'ignorent ; car ils ne sont pas dans mes pensées et c'est regrettable parfois."" ""If journalists knew that all the nurses entered my cell alone and in complete confidence we would be far from the 'beast' and the hostage-taking like Buffet. Nurses have always been sacred to me. They are untouchable like many other people but those journalist faggots don't know this; because they are not in my thoughts and that's sometimes regrettable."" Jacques Mesrine speaks of the creation of his work L'instinct de mort and his health in a fatalistic manner: ""Autrement tout est ok sauf mes douleurs au coeur qui me reprennent. mais je laisse faire car je n'aime pas prendre de médicaments. Et puis le mécanisme s'arrêtera le jour ""J"" du destin. Peut-être dans tes bras. qui sait ""Otherwise everything is ok except my heart pains that are returning. but I let it be because I don't like taking medication. And then the mechanism will stop on the 'D' day of d unknown
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Jules RENARD
Billet autographe signé adressé à Willy dans lequel il le considère comme un bon critique littéraire mais surtout comme un ami
Paris 1896. Fine. Paris 1896 11.50 x 9 cm une feuille Autograph note signed by Jules Renard addressed to Willy from his Parisian residence 8 lines in black ink. ""Le 24 Mars 1896 c'est vous mon cher Willy qui êtes adorable. Ne répliquez pas. Je m'y connais. Je distingue très bien un ami d'un critique littéraire et Willy de M. Doumic. Votre reconnaissant Jules Renard."" March 24 1896 it is you my dear Willy who are adorable. Do not reply. I know what I'm talking about. I distinguish very well between a friend and a literary critic between Willy and M. Doumic. Your grateful Jules Renard. unknown
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Jean COCTEAU
Lettre autographe adressée à l'écrivain et journaliste Olivier Quéant à propos d'un projet d'édition
Kietzbühel Kitzbühel 1954. Fine. Kietzbühel Kitzbühel 8 Février 1954 13.50 x 21 cm une page une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau addressed from the Grand Hotel Kietzbühel 16 lines in black ink to Olivier Quéant. Fold marks inherent to mailing envelope included. ""Grd Hotel Kietzbühel 8 Feb. 1954 my dear Olivier dans le poème ""J'ai dans un train"" il y a les chevaux noirs et l'homme le lotte du guerre et paix de Picasso isti guerre on pourrait prendre le motif séparé du livre qui flambe sous le pied d'un cheval noir. Il ferait une belle image. Si tu ne l'as pas demande le catalogue illustré de Rome . Eugenio Réale 3 rue Mangili Rome."" in the poem ""J'ai dans un train"" there are the black horses and the man the lotte of Picasso's guerre et paix isti guerre we could take the separate motif of the book that burns under the foot of a black horse. It would make a beautiful image. If you don't have it ask for the illustrated catalogue from Rome . Eugenio Réale 3 rue Mangili Rome. unknown
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Jacques PERRET
"Quand vous verrez Blondin dites lui que ma pensée le suit dans sa gloire et qu'il veuille réserver un 1/2 setier de son pactole à boire."" Autograph letter addressed to Roger Nimier evoking his friendship and admiration for Antoine Blondin
s. l. 1960. Fine. s. l. s. d. ca 1960 21 x 27 cm une page Autograph letter signed by Jacques Perret 22 lines in black ink addressed to a colleague probably Roger Nimier. Fold mark inherent to postal dispatch. Jacques Perret awaits a letter from Roger Nimier that is running late: ""Your note arrived late given that I no longer live on rue de la clé but at 5 rue de l'Ancienne Comédie. Gordon Pym has not yet arrived but that doesn't surprise me coming from him."" and inquires about his correspondent's health: "". I learned that you had heart troubles; before long I will go see if everything has returned to order."" He enthuses about the success his friend Antoine Blondin is enjoying: ""When you see Blondin tell him that my thoughts follow him in his glory and that he should reserve half a setier of his treasure to drink when the day comes. Also tell him that my boy who is operating in Kabylia would be quite pleased with a word or an apostilled sign."" Jacques Perret a royalist writer fierce partisan of French Algeria and virulently anti-Gaullist was stripped of his civil rights and then in 1963 struck from the military medal roll despite protests from some of his fellow writers suspects that his political positions do not favor honorary decorations: ""I find that we were made to sign a manifesto manifestly designed to torpedo my ribbon."" unknown
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Claude FARRERE
" Mais ce qu'il faut que vous sachiez par dessus tout c'est que vous êtes ma plus grande affection"" Long and beautiful autograph letter signed to his friend Pierre Louÿs about the latter's falling out with a friend they have in common and which seems to jeopardize theirs
Toulon 1908. Fine. Toulon 4 Août1908 13.50 x 21.50 cm 16 pages sur quatre doubles feuillets une enveloppe Very long autograph letter signed by Claude Farrère approximately 260 lines in blue ink 16 pages on four double sheets to his friend Pierre Louÿs. Fold marks inherent to postal dispatch envelope included. Claude Farrère mentions the letter he received from his friend and the one he has just sent him: ""I was writing to you on that same Friday a blood-colored letter. a glowing letter devoid of all composure."" He returns with humor to the quarrel between Pierre Louÿs and a certain Augusto probably Auguste Babut de Rosan for which he thought himself responsible: ""Note well dear friend that I was persuaded deep down despite your mutual denials of my personal influence in your quarrel. Human vanity never misses such opportunities. And it is with some shame that I confess to having believed myself for two good days to be the pivot of the world."" Claude Farrère castigates his own candor and lack of discernment: ""Although I am as prudent as you know me to be I am constantly caught red-handed. . the young divorced woman I once showed you at the cinema had the imprudence to arrange to meet me in deserted streets. the child's father a senior officer as befits encountered us there."" sensing that this naivety will eventually play tricks on him: "". it will end badly. I practice fencing every time I think about it."" Since he has just received his friend Pierre Louÿs's missive he continues writing his letter to respond to him and is astonished by what he has just read: ""So when four or five days later I find your first telegram 'am quarreling' with - for a reason you can guess."" I remain stupefied and rack my brain in vain. Having not guessed I suppose. I suppose wrongly. Bewilderment. I received last week seventy-five letters of which about twenty concerned you closely or distantly."" In this tangle of bruised and torn friendships Claude Farrère also describes the great dismay of another of their mutual friends a certain V who finally enlightens the writer about the misunderstanding opposing Louÿs and Babut de Rosan: ""Thereupon sudden change in V. He was more than struck. I saw him on the verge of suicide. He immediately pulls himself together regains his composure jumps on a train. And while waiting for departure time he resumes his account. and I understand."" Here Claude Farrère is almost relieved and reassured: ""Now I believe I have understood. Not quite everything. That I meddled in what did not concern me. I ask your pardon for it my friend and beg you to forget it. Your affection is so dear to me that I would be abominably unhappy to feel it cooled even by a single degree! Tell me if I must fear this and tell me so in earnest."" but still as sad for Augusto: ""Augusto is at this moment almost mad with grief because he believes your friendship lost to him. I deeply pity this poor child."" A very fine letter symbolizing the torments of the tumultuous friendships in Pierre Louÿs and Claude Farrère's circle. unknown
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Georges FOUREST
". Ah les délicieux moments que je vous dois ! Après vous avoir suivi aux sommets alpestres après avoir vibré à vos fiers poëmes de guerre quelle joie de savourer vos poëmes à forme fixe !"" Laudative signed autograph letter addressed to a fellow writer whose poems he has just devoured
Paris: S. n. 1924. Fine. S. n. Paris 14 Mai 1924 13 x 18 cm deux pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Georges Fourest 31 lines in black ink addressed to a fellow writer. Fold mark inherent to envelope insertion marginal stains affecting some word beginnings. Georges Fourest praises the quality of his correspondent's work: ""Que les superstitieux viennent encore nous représenter le 13 comme un jour néfaste ! Pour moi je sais bien que je marque d'un caillou blanc le 13 Mai 1924 puisque le matin de ce jour-là je reçus votre exquis volume. . je pus consacrer mon après-midi à vous lire bien installé au Parc Monceaux."" Let the superstitious still tell us that the 13th is an unlucky day! For my part I know well that I mark May 13 1924 with a white stone since on the morning of that day I received your exquisite volume. . I was able to devote my afternoon to reading you comfortably installed in Parc Monceau. and compares the quality of his verse to his illustrious predecessor Clément Marot: "". quant à vos acrostiches je ne connaissais qu'un chef-d'oeuvre en ce genre celui de Clément Marot par Glatignyet voilà que vous nous en donnez sept et qui laissent de loin l'autre derrière eux."" . as for your acrostics I knew only one masterpiece in this genre that of Clément Marot by Glatigny and here you give us seven which leave the other far behind. at the risk of being considered a base flatterer: "". je ne me doutais guère qu'un poëte venait de m'exaucer et avec quelle maîtrise ! Mais si je vous disais tout ce que je pense vous me prendriez pour un flagorneur."" . I hardly suspected that a poet had just answered my prayers and with what mastery! But if I told you everything I think you would take me for a flatterer. S. n. unknown
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Pierre BENOIT
"Le successeur de Deberly s'est vraiment surpassé. J'en éprouve autant de fierté que j'y étais pour quelque chose."" Signed autograph letter addressed to a friend in particular about an article published in a magazine
Ciboure 1952. Fine. Ciboure 30 Janvier 1952 13.50 x 21 cm deux pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Pierre Benoit sent from his priority in Ciboure 22 lines in blue ink. The letter is on Académie française letterhead. Central fold marks perforations from filing in a binder causing no losses. ""30 January 1952 My dear friend Here I am back. The need for a little peace to put correspondence in order makes me delay by a few days the pleasure of seeing you. I retain that of writing to you and of telling you - something a bit ridiculous on my part since the said issue contains an article by your servant - that I found the November-December issue of the Courrier de la Compagnie truly very successful. Deberly's successor has truly outdone himself. I feel as much pride as if I had something to do with it. . As I will certainly not be back for a week could you honor me here with a few words in response which would be more than welcome Sincerely yours. Pierre Benoit. Ciboure - Basses-Pyrénées."" unknown
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Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE
"Vous me rappelez en effet des temps déjà bien anciens mais que ce qui a fini n'a pu effacer de ma mémoire"" Autograph letter dated and signed congratulating his correspondent on the quality of his latest work
s. l. 1860. Fine. s. l. 15 juillet1860 13.50 x 21 cm une page et demi sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Sainte-Beuve 1 and a half pages on a double sheet. 25 lines in black ink. ""J'ai été très sensible cher monsieur à votre bon français et à l'envoi du très sage et instructif volume qui en est la cause. Vous me rappelez en effet des temps déjà bien anciens mais que ce qui a fini n'a pu effacer de ma mémoire : car à vous parler vrai quoi qu'il y ait bien de l'espace et bien de l'intervalle d'aujourd'hui à ce temps-ci il me paraît souvent qu'il y a du vide : et le tourbillon de la vie littéraire dont vous me parlez je ne le ressens guère. Ce qui me frappe c'est plutôt le contraire du tourbillon c'est à dire l'isolement la disparition ou le peu de mouvement de groupe. On se survit et l'on traîne un peu : je parle du moins pour moi aussi n'en suis-je que plus sensible. . de bons témoignages comme le vôtre qui attestent que le passé n'est pas oublié et qu'il a réellement existé. Croyez-moi je vous prie tout à vous. Sainte-Beuve."" ""I have been very touched dear sir by your good French and by the sending of the very wise and instructive volume which is the cause of it. You remind me indeed of times already quite ancient but which what has ended could not erase from my memory: for to speak truly to you although there is much space and much interval from today to that time it often seems to me that there is emptiness: and the whirlwind of literary life of which you speak to me I hardly feel it. What strikes me is rather the contrary of the whirlwind that is to say isolation the disappearance or the little group movement. One survives oneself and drags on a little: I speak at least for myself so I am all the more sensitive. . to good testimonies like yours which attest that the past is not forgotten and that it really existed. Believe me I beg you entirely yours. Sainte-Beuve."" unknown
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Jean COCTEAU
" Bref tout un ordre ou un désordre qui m'empêchent d'écrire surtout sur un tel sujet. mais vous le voyez je forme à demi mes lettres."" Autograph letter addressed to the writer and journalist Olivier Quéant about his ailing condition
Milly-la-Forêt 1951. Fine. Milly-la-Forêt 7 Février 1951 21 x 27 cm une page Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau addressed from his house in Milly-la-Forêt 15 lines in black ink to Olivier Quéant. Traces of folds inherent to postal mailing. ""Milly Février 1951 7 Très cher Quéant Pardonnez moi. Je traverse une crise très pénible de santé. L'opération a redéclenché les symptomes de mes supplices de la Belle et la Bête. Les médécins s'y perdent et je vais être tenu de changer de climat. Bref tout un ordre ou un désordre qui m'empêchent d'écrire surtout sur un tel sujet. Je sais que vous m'aimez bien et me comprendrez. S'il s'agissait de plusieurs mois peut-être tenterai-je la chose mais vous le voyez je forme à demi mes lettres. Tt coeur à vous. JeanC."" ""Milly February 1951 7 Very dear Quéant Forgive me. I am going through a very painful health crisis. The operation has triggered again the symptoms of my torments from Beauty and the Beast. The doctors are at a loss and I will have to change climate. In short a whole order or disorder that prevents me from writing especially on such a subject. I know that you care for me and will understand. If it were a matter of several months perhaps I would attempt the thing but as you can see I can barely form my letters. All my heart to you. JeanC."" unknown
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Jean COCTEAU
Enveloppe portant l'adresse manuscrite de l'écrivain et journaliste Olivier Quéant rédigée par Jean Cocteau
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1954. Fine. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 27 Septembre 1954 14.50 x 11 cm une enveloppe Handwritten envelope addressed by Jean Cocteau to his friend Olivier Quéant sent from Saint Jean Cap-Ferrat 4 lines in blue ink. unknown
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Jean COCTEAU
Enveloppe portant l'adresse manuscrite de l'écrivain et journaliste Olivier Quéant rédigée par Jean Cocteau
Milly-la-Forêt 1951. Fine. Milly-la-Forêt 8 Janvier 1951 14.50 x 11 cm une enveloppe Handwritten envelope addressed by Jean Cocteau to his friend Olivier Quéant sent from his house in Milly-la-Forêt 4 lines in black ink. unknown
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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
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Jean COCTEAU
Lettre autographe adressée à l'écrivain et journaliste Olivier Quéant s'émerveillant de la beauté des charmes de la Côte d'Azur et s'inquiétant de la perte du savoir-faire artisanal
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1958. Fine. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 4 N ovembre 1958 13.50 x 21 cm trois pages et demi sur deux feuillets Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau 52 lines in blue ink to Olivier Quéant sent from the Villa Santo-Sospir in Saint Jean Cap-Ferrat which he decorated. Fold marks inherent to the mailing. Jean Cocteau waxes bucolically enthusiastic about the place where he resides and works: "". chaque jour je travaille à flanc de colline dans une sorte de ferme exquise où ne fleurisse que les grains qui tombent d'ailleurs."" "". each day I work on the hillside in a sort of exquisite farm where only the seeds that fall from elsewhere flourish."" and rhapsodizes about the local craftsmanship: "". des artisans véritables. travailler chez eux c'est le contraire de lire un journal. On aime voir ce miracle de l'équilibre entre le coeur et la main."" "". true artisans. working with them is the opposite of reading a newspaper. One loves to see this miracle of balance between heart and hand."" He informs Olivier Quéant of his upcoming exhibition: ""J'expose le 15 13 pour la première 6 rue Bonaparte. je ne te demande pas de venir voir mes oeuvres mais leur besogne ils le méritent."" ""I'm exhibiting on the 15th 13th for the opening 6 rue Bonaparte. I'm not asking you to come see my works but their labor they deserve it."" and also explains the aesthetic causes he intends to defend henceforth: "". nous menons la même croisade : celle de soutenir ces braves types qu'on dédaigne comme des aristocrates du milieu ouvrier. Le drame c'est que l'artiste qui tournait amoureusement un pied de fauteuil Louis 15 apporte la même application mais froide à forger la pièce d'une machine qui fabriquera le fauteuil."" "". we wage the same crusade: that of supporting these good fellows who are disdained as aristocrats of the working class. The tragedy is that the artist who lovingly turned a Louis XV chair leg applies the same care but cold to forging the part of a machine that will manufacture the chair."" while lamenting that artisanal traditions and know-how are sinking into oblivion: "". les jeunes refusent d'apprendre le métier par exemple des femmes de soixante ans qui firent ce prodige : ma tapisserie de Judith et Holopherne. disaient : c'est la dernière."" "". young people refuse to learn the trade for example women of sixty who performed this miracle: my tapestry of Judith and Holofernes. said: it's the last one."" He hopes to see his friend Olivier Quéant soon: ""Tu en verras une chez les Weill si tu me fais la grâce de venir et si le déluge parisien cesse et si tu ne dois pas atteindre la rue Bonaparte en arche ou gondole."" ""You'll see one at the Weills' if you do me the grace of coming and if the Parisian deluge ceases and if you don't have to reach rue Bonaparte by ark or gondola."" unknown
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Jules RENARD
Carte de visite autographe adressée à son ami Camille de Sainte-Croix
Paris 1900. Fine. Paris s. d. ca 1900 13 x 9 cm une carte de visite Jules Renard's printed visiting card on which he added these few words for his friend Camille de Sainte-Croix: ""Comme c'est loin déjà l'écornifleur ! et il me semble mon cher Camille de Sainte-Croix que votre amitié n'a pas changé ni la mienne. Cela tient sans doute à ce que nous sommes des maris modèles."" How far away already the sponger! and it seems to me my dear Camille de Sainte-Croix that your friendship has not changed nor mine. This is doubtless because we are model husbands. unknown
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Claude FARRERE
"J'ai été informé par mon propre commandant que le ministère sur la foi de mon premier livre supposait que l'opium ne m'était pas étranger. Beautiful autograph letter signed to his friend Pierre Louÿs in particular about his staff who suspect him of using opium
Toulon 1908. Fine. Toulon 30 Mars 1908 13.50 x 21.50 cm 8 pages sur deux doubles feuillets une enveloppe Long autograph letter signed by Claude Farrère approximately 160 lines in blue ink 8 pages on two double leaves to his friend Pierre Louÿs thanking him notably for his thoughtfulness. Traces of folds inherent to being placed in an envelope envelope included. Claude Farrère praises his friend's thoughtfulness towards him: ""Thank you for your letter. not only because it is exquisite - six times more than you can believe - but much more because I know very well that you told it to me so as 'not to worry me.' as you say."" and is amazed by the problems raised by these recent articles: ""Said in parentheses I am quite stunned by the one relating to controversial articles. Not only have I not written any."" He is more concerned about the suspicions he arouses regarding his alleged opium consumption: ""I was informed by my own commander that the ministry based on my first book supposed that opium was not foreign to me. The same commander protested arguing that for so many months that I had served under his orders he had absolute certainty that I had not committed the slightest sin! But I doubt that his word is very appreciated in Paris."" and about the hatred that an officer bears him. Despite these problems Claude Farrère wants to reassure his friend: ""I want my dear friend for you to be absolutely at peace about me. I absolutely don't care myself."" while lamenting that the latter is abandoning the south of France this year: ""Tamaris without you how do you expect the celestial mechanism to continue turning And me You would systematically push me to suicide. Don't forget that I'm writing a quite bloody book and that I live in the iniquitous society of people who for a half-yes or a quarter-no disembowel themselves!"" He concludes his letter with new rumors concerning him: ""Of course Madame de X has gratuitously supposed horrible things: I am not the lover of the other lady from the milliner's. Come now! how could a young man such as myself decent and too well brought up cf. Madame P.L.'s opinion etc."" unknown
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Georges FOUREST
Bristol autographe signé adressé à un confrère écrivain le remerciant pour son ""indulgence excessive"" regradant sa nouvelle publiée dans la Revue contemporaine
Paris: S. n. 1920. Fine. S. n. Paris 1er Juillet 1920 11.50 x 9 cm deux pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Georges Fourest 15 lines in black ink addressed to a fellow writer. Light foxing on the bristol. Georges Fourest thanks his correspondent: ""Je viens de lire la Revue contemporaie et tout de suite je veux vous remercier de la façon si charmante encore que d'une indulgence excessive dont vous avez signalé ma courte nouvelle ""Le loup garou"". Ai-je besoin de vous dire combien me touchent de si délicats éloges venant de l'artiste que vous êtes Encore merci et croyez moi bien sympathiquement vôtre. Georges Fourest 24 rue de Milan IXe arr. Paris le 1er juillet 1920"" ""I have just read the Revue contemporaine and immediately want to thank you for the charming way albeit with excessive indulgence in which you mentioned my short story 'Le loup garou'. Need I tell you how touched I am by such delicate praise coming from the artist that you are Thanks again and believe me most sympathetically yours. Georges Fourest 24 rue de Milan IXe arr. Paris July 1st 1920"". S. n. unknown
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Donatien Alphonse Francois de SADE
""J'éprouve . un dégoût un abattement total"" Letter from the Marquis de Sade from the Charenton Asylum
Charenton 1801. Fine. ""I experience spasms a sort of shivering a lot of yawning disgust total despondency the blood rushes violently to my head then I feel dizzy spinning which makes me stumble and a thousand other things proving a great tension in the body and a great irritation in the nervous system."" Charenton 1801 15 x 22.80 cm un feuillet composé deux papiers encollés Original autograph letter by the Marquis de Sade consists of 27 lines of relatively tight handwriting. Most likely written to his wife as evidenced by the letter's origin from Sade's family. The letter is physically composed of two glued pieces of paper. On the verso the Marquis wrote 19 lines and scrupulously crossed them out - a few words and letters are still quite visible. Cited in Maurice Lever's biography 'Donatien Alphonse François marquis de Sade' Paris Fayard 1991 p. 631. On March 7 1801 Armand de Sade the Marquis's son received a letter from the Minister of Police Joseph Fouché notifying him that his father had been arrested yesterday and that handwritten pages from the novel 'La nouvelle Justine' Justine or the Misfortunes of Virtue had been found on his person: Nevertheless sensitive to your request for leniency and concerned to preserve the honor of your name I have decided to have your father transferred to the Charenton nursing home.. It should be noted that for Fouché Charenton an insane asylum was nothing more than a nursing home a prison. It should not be forgotten that a large proportion of the population of these asylums did not fit into the social and moral field and psychiatry has long had no other aim than to normalize to make them fit for social life. Contrary to what has been said Sade fits in perfectly. However as soon as he entered Charenton Sade's attitude led to his expulsion to Bicêtre the Bastille of scoundrels but his family succeeded in getting him back into the Charenton asylum. Charenton was not only the Marquis de Sade's last incarceration but also the last place he lived in where he died in 1814. The 19 lines scrupulously crossed out on the back of the leaf reveal a few words or letters; in this respect we can conjecture that it's a coded message which Sade was quite fond of for if censorship had been behind these erasures absolutely everything would have been yet the message clearly shows that almost everything has been conscientiously crossed out apart from a few words or letters. We can still make out a few of them: 'Nécessaire' 'à tous' 'ger' 'ue' 'quel' 'je trouve' 'de'. As for the letter itself it is remarkable for the homogeneity of its message. It is a lengthy complaint describing the physical ailments Sade has suffered. It is an account of the sum total of the symptoms that overwhelm the writer. In a hyperbolic style using among other figures of speech adverbs of intensity si tel très. Sade methodically spells out the violent pains his body is suffering with the whole of this violence constituting a system a structure in which all the parts are linked. In the writer's correspondence it can be said that each time he found himself incarcerated his letters mention uncontrollable physical attacks although we know of no other letter so uniform and systematic.The pain originates in the pit of the stomach radiating out to the periphery: head eyes legs all converging on vertigo loss of balance. .because that's what it's all about: Sade isn't suffering from any illness he's besieged by anguish whose ultimate meaning is vertigo the wavering of a reality from which his freedom to live as he pleases his freedom of movement and his name have been taken away. The loss of these fundamental elements of his existence sends Sade in turmoil. In addition and as regards the formation of these particular symtoms if we consider that the fulfillment of a certain sexual sadism is necessary to him the deprivation of this satisfaction turns this sadistic driv unknown
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Jean COCTEAU
"Il m'est encore impossible d'entrer dans les détails d'un long drame intime sans mettre en cause certaines personnes qui sont davantage des victimes du destin que véritablement responsables. Cette longue et triste histoire m'oblige à vivre loin de ce Santo Sospir dont les murs témoignent d'une amitié de quatorze ans."" Autograph letter to a friend about a broken friendship and his plans to decorate the chapel of Our Lady of Jerusalem in Fréjus
Fréjus 1963. Fine. Fréjus 17 Avril 1963 21.50 x 27.50 cm une page Autograph letter dated and signed by Jean Cocteau 20 lines in black ink on letterhead of the committee for the edification of the chapel of Notre-Dame de Jérusalem de Fréjus. Fold marks inherent to postal dispatch one tear in left margin of the letter at the level of the fold. Jean Cocteau offers profuse apologies while acknowledging mitigating circumstances regarding the emotional burden overwhelming him: ""J'accepte vos reproches avec beaucoup de honte. Mais si je pouvais vous raconter la période que je traverse votre coeur me comprendrait et m'absoudrait."" ""I accept your reproaches with great shame. But if I could tell you about the period I am going through your heart would understand and absolve me."" due to a recently deceased friendship about which he does not wish to reveal more: ""N'en parlons plus et priez pour moi."" ""Let us speak no more of it and pray for me."" Jean Cocteau prefers to discuss his projects: ""Actuellement je me consacre à mon travail de la chapelle du Saint-Sépulcre. Quand je l'aurai construite peinte et rendue digne des chevaliers de Jérusalem je me remettrait sic peut-être à écrire."" ""Currently I am devoting myself to my work on the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre. When I have built it painted it and made it worthy of the knights of Jerusalem I will perhaps start writing again."" and the prospects that delight him: ""Il est probable que je resterais après Pâques à Fréjus où les organisateurs m'offrent une petite villa."" ""It is likely that I will remain after Easter in Fréjus where the organizers are offering me a small villa."" unknown
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Felicien CHAMPSAUR
Lettre autographe adressée à un ami écrivain à propos notamment de la prochaine parution de son ouvrage l'Orgie latine chez Fasquelle
Paris 1903. Fine. Paris s. d. ca 1903 13 x 21 cm 4 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter dated and signed by Félicien Champsaur approximately 75 lines in pink ink addressed to a writer friend from his Parisian residence on rue Ballu. Fold marks inherent to mailing tears to right margins of the letter at fold level. Félicien Champsaur apologizes for his late response: ""Ne m'en veuillez pas et pardonnez définitivement à un confrère harcelé par tous les flux de la vie mais qui est ""votre ami"" très acquis par les plus charmants souvenirs"" ""Do not hold it against me and forgive definitively a colleague harassed by all the streams of life but who is 'your friend' very devoted through the most charming memories"" and extends his best wishes for the beginning of 1903. He also mentions the forthcoming publication of his work ""L'orgie latine"" to be published by Eugène Fasquelle and which will be decorated with illustrations and proposes to his correspondent to collaborate on the review la Bavarde to which he contributes some articles. unknown
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Julien GRACQ
"Pourquoi la littérature. a-t-elle tant de mal au contraire à considérer la réalité si le besoin s'en fait sortir"" Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq addressed to his close friend and monographer Ariel Denis about his reading of James Joyce's Ulysses
Sion-sur-l'Océan Sion-sur-l'Océan 1985. Fine. Sion-sur-l'Océan Sion-sur-l'Océan 13 Août ca 1985 15 x 10 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq 19 lines in black ink addressed to his friend and monographer Ariel Denis written from his Vendée retreat on the verso of a photographic reproduction showing the Sion-sur-Océan coast from aerial view. Julien Gracq discusses his reading of Joyce and compares the Irish landscapes and climate to those of Vendée : ""Ici aucune trace des brumes d'Irlande il fait inaltérablement beau sans même un orage."" Here no trace of Irish mists the weather is unalterably beautiful without even a storm. and inquires about his friend's professional future : ""Comment s'arrangent vos perspectives universitaires pour l'année à venir Problème qui je sais assombrit toujours un peu vos fins de vacances et dont j'espère qu'il va se régler à votre satisfaction."" How are your university prospects working out for the coming year A problem which I know always casts a slight shadow over your vacation endings and which I hope will be resolved to your satisfaction. unknown
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Claude FARRERE
"Perdez la funeste habitude de me voir tué chaque fois qu'on parle l'épée à l'entour. C'est au contraire moi qui tuerai les autres."" Funny autograph letter signed to his friend Pierre Louÿs
Toulon 1908. Fine. Toulon 20 Juillet 1908 13.50 x 21.50 cm deux pages et demie sur un double feuillet une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Claude Farrère then serving in the military 47 lines in blue ink written from Toulon to his friend Pierre Louÿs. Fold marks inherent to mailing envelope included. The soldier Claude Farrère thanks his friend for defending him during a dispute opposing him to a certain Monsieur B even though it was hardly worth devoting so much importance to him: ""Monsieur B read in some Annales that his fierce enemy was busy waging war in Safi against the Muslims. By incredible misfortune it happened that I had returned from there. His stupor was then so great that he lost his head."" ""Now I will never tell you to what extent I was moved by your role and by V.'s role in the whole affair."" Confident in his qualities as a fencer and marksman Claude Farrère allows himself this gentle and humorous jibe at his friend and seeks to reassure him at the risk of falling into anachronism: ""Lose the disastrous habit of seeing me killed each time someone speaks of swords around. On the contrary it is I who will kill the others. I do a great deal of fencing now. And I shoot the pistol like the late William Tell. Therefore be quiet. There. When shall we meet"" unknown
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Maurice LEBLANC
Lettre autographe signée adressée à un ami prenommé Louis le chargeant de deux démarches à effectuer pour lui
s. l. 1905. Fine. s. l. s. d. ca 1905 11.50 x 18 cm 5 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Maurice Leblanc to a friend from Rouen named Louis asking him to perform several services as he lacks the time to handle them himself. Maurice Leblanc entrusts his friend with two commissions: first to collect some furniture reserved by one of his friends at an antique dealer's: ""Go to a man named Chassaigne antique dealer 20 rue St Romain.He sold 6 chairs to the Prats two months ago. . apparently he refused to accept a deposit. No response. Let him say frankly that he has sold everything. The bench was for me 40 francs and I would very much like to have it."" the second concerning an administrative matter: ""Go to the registry of the civil court. and request an extract of my birth certificate and an extract of my parents' death certificates. It's for a marriage."" unknown
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Alphonse DAUDET
Carte de visite autographe adressée au journaliste Philippe Gille
Paris 1889. Fine. Paris 10 Avril 1889 10 x 6 cm une carte de visite une enveloppe Printed visiting card of Alphonse Daudet on which he added these few words for his friend the journalist Philippe Gille regarding his benevolent publicity that he devoted to his wife Julia's recently published work: ""Ma femme te remercie d'avoir si bien et si à propos lancé son petit livre. Moi je te félicite de la jolie tournure que tu as donné à ce très spirituel et bien sensé petit spectacle de présentation. Remercie Magnard pour le ménage. Ton A.D."" My wife thanks you for having so well and so aptly launched her little book. As for me I congratulate you on the nice turn you gave to this very witty and sensible little presentation show. Thank Magnard for the household. Yours A.D. Envelope enclosed with a tear due to the opening of the postal fold a date inscribed in margin on verso of the card probably that of the card's reception. unknown
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Alexandre DUMAS
Lettre autographe signée depuis Florence
s. l. 1841. Fine. s. l. août 1841 13.40 x 20.50 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Alexandre Dumas to the private secretary of the Royal Princess. A page written in black ink autograph address written on verso postal stamps dated 30 August 1841. ""Dearest Enclosed under your care are two letters: one which I beg you to send to Colonel Brahant by Joseph asking him to wait for the reply. The other is for M. Pascal whom you will be good enough to send to your home and who will also give you the answer as soon as possible. These two replies dearest you will send to me. Yours sincerely Dumas I had prepared my work for the 2nd and 17th so that Mr. Pascal would have them both in October. Send me the proofs if you have them printed before I get to Paris. Aesthetically written later dating from Dumas' exile in Florence. unknown
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Liane de POUGY
"Missy-Missou est revenue nous voir avec 2 amis. C'est bien elle-lui que vous avez vu à l'Opéra. Il ou elle eût été charmée de vous saluer mais ne vous as pas perçu."" Dated autograph letter addressed to Salomon Reinach in particular about the visits of his friend ""Missy"" Mathilde de Morny
Le Clos-Marie Roscoff 1924. Fine. Le Clos-Marie Roscoff 30 Août 1924 21 x 27.50 cm 1 page recto verso Autograph letter dated from Liane de Pougy addressed to the French archaeologist curator of the Saint-Germain museum and professor of art history at the École du Louvre Salomon Reinach 56 lines written in blue ink on a recto verso leaf written from her property Clos-Marie in Roscoff where the famous courtesan stayed until 1926. A small tear in the right margin of the letter and inherent to the folding of the missive. Liane de Pougy does not have time to be bored in her Roscoff property: ""J'écris beaucoup dans mes cahiers fleuris et je reçois des visites"" I write a lot in my flowered notebooks and I receive visits where her great friend Mathilde de Morny known as ""Missy"" famous Amazon of Tout-Paris comes to see her: ""Missy-Missou est revenue nous voir avec 2 amis. C'est bien elle-lui que vous avez vu à l'Opéra. Il ou elle eût été charmée de vous saluer mais ne vous as pas perçu. Il est reparti emmenant Max Jacob qui est déjà revenu."" Missy-Missou came back to see us with 2 friends. It is indeed she-he that you saw at the Opera. He or she would have been delighted to greet you but did not see you. He left taking Max Jacob who has already returned. Liane de Pougy receives many people: ""Nous attendons le jeune de Jacques de Maleisgne avec sa femme son nègre des animaux - des instruments banjo etc. Vous voyez qu'il y a de quoi s'occuper."" We are expecting young Jacques de Maleisgne with his wife his negro animals - instruments banjo etc. You see there is plenty to keep busy. complains about her health affected by weather conditions: ""En plus de mes occupations j'ai des douleurs alimentées par les pluies incessantes cependant ce matin ma fenêtre est ouverte sur un paysage riant."" In addition to my occupations I have pains fed by incessant rains however this morning my window is open on a smiling landscape. while appreciating with a certain melancholy the beauties of nature surrounding her: ""Les rosiers poussent drus leurs fleurs persistent les grenouilles et les limaces sont heureuses baveuses et ne demandent plus de roi ! Les guêpes bourdonnent tristement désenchantées de la saison ratée. et nous attendons l'hiver et ses feux ses lumières ses neiges ses fourrures et tous ses artifices."" The rose bushes grow thick their flowers persist the frogs and slugs are happy drooling and no longer ask for a king! The wasps buzz sadly disenchanted with the failed season. and we await winter and its fires its lights its snows its furs and all its artifices. Fine letter from the famous courtesan actress and author Liane de Pougy relating her friendships with the Tout-Paris of the Amazons. unknown
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Francois Rene de CHATEAUBRIAND
"le temps de planter est venu"" Autograph letter signed to the husband of Atala Chateaubriand's goddaughter
Paris 1827. Fine. ""the time for planting has come"" Paris 14 mars 1827 16.20 x 19.30 cm trois pages et demi sur un bifeuillet ""the time for planting has come"" Autograph letter signed by François-René de Chateaubriand dated March 14 1827. 3 1/2 pages in black ink on a bifolium addressed to Michel-Augustin Varcollier. Chateaubriand writes to the husband of his goddaughter Atala Stamaty-Varcollier the first to bear the name of the heroine of his famous novel that propelled him onto the literary scene in 1801. Head of the Fine Arts Division of the Seine Prefecture Michel-Augustin Varcollier acted as Chateaubriand's intermediary in the development of the grounds of l'Infirmerie Marie-Thérèse his wife Céleste's grand project to house elderly priests and nobles widowed by the French Revolution. Here Monsieur is a bill from Madame de Chateaubriand to M. de Chabrol inviting him to attend Marie-Thérèse's council meeting which will take place next Wednesday the 21st at 2 a.m."". M. de Chabrol was kind enough to suggest Friday of this week but it has been impossible to gather MM. the Counselors for that day. Kindly explain this to Monsieur de Chabrol. . I have obtained permission from the Prefect of Police to place palisades along the walls. Now I need permission from M. le Préfet de Paris to plant within these palisades. I'm going to pretend I've already got it because the time for planting has come. I have no doubt that Mr. Préfet will continue his gestures of kindness. There is still to complete the work on the trellis on my little boulevart sic to give two coats of paint to the barriers. I recommend myself to M. de Fresnes for the completion of this great work. I must thank him and you Monsieur for all the kindness you have shown me.""  unknown
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Maurice BLANCHOT
Bristol autographe adressé à sa nièce Annick Blanchot
s. l.: S. n. 1965. Fine. S. n. s. l. s.d. ca 1965 10 x 7.50 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph card from Maurice Blanchot to his niece Annick 5 lines in black ink. Manuscript envelope included. ""Pour Annick on the envelope ce livre ne t'apportera rien de consolant mais du moins reçois-le comme le témoignage de mon affection qui ne te manquera pas aussi longtemps que vivre sera possible - et peut-être au-delà par le souvenir."" For Annick this book will bring you nothing consoling but at least receive it as testimony of my affection which will not fail you as long as living remains possible - and perhaps beyond that through memory. S. n. unknown
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Maurice BLANCHOT
" être au plus près de chacun dans la pensée ""communiste"" là où tout souffre tout se reconnait se découvre"" Bristol autograph dated and signed addressed to his sister Marguerite Blanchot
s. l.: S. n. 1969. Fine. S. n. s. l. 11 Décembre 1969 10 x 7.50 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph card dated and signed by Maurice Blanchot to his sister Marguerite 12 lines in black ink. Manuscript envelope included. ""Cher marg voici donc des paroles comme testamentaires accueille-les non comme venant de moi mais d'une recherche qui a par hasard et sans mérite ni démérite passée par moi qui m'y suis soumis comme j'ai pu qu'est-ce qui importe finalement être au plus près de chacun dans la pensée ""communiste"" là où tout souffre tout se reconnait se découvre être en ce coeur pour chacun pour tous. Avec toute mon affection. Maurice."" Dear Marg here then are words like testamentary ones receive them not as coming from me but from a search which has by chance and without merit or demerit passed through me who submitted to it as I could what matters finally to be as close as possible to each one in ""communist"" thought where everything suffers everything recognizes itself discovers itself to be in this heart for each one for all. With all my affection. Maurice. S. n. unknown
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Andre MALRAUX - Sophie de VILMORIN
Carte postale manuscrite enrichie de la signature d'André Malraux écrite depuis Bombay à leurs amis Minka et Karl Hans Strauss
s. l.: s. n. 1974. Fine. s. n. s. l. 27 Novembre 1974 15 x 10 cm une feuille Manuscript postcard enhanced with André Malraux's signature written from Bombay to their friends Minka and Karl Hans Strauss 13 lines in blue ballpoint pen. The postcard shows a reproduction of Hindu sculpture. ""Chers amis que c'était beau ! Nous vous embrassons affectueusement Sophie."" ""Dear friends how beautiful it was! We embrace you affectionately Sophie."" Separated from his wife Madeleine at the end of the 1960s André Malraux began a second relationship with the writer Louise de Vilmorin and moved in with her at the Vilmorin château in Verrières-le-Buisson. After her death on December 26 1969 André Malraux continued to live at the château with Louise's niece Sophie de Vilmorin who became his last companion and cared for him until his death on November 23 1976. s. n. unknown
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Alphonse ALLAIS
"Et bien envoie-moi le n° du Figaro illustré d'il y a un mois ou deux où il y avait des choses de Toulouse-Lautrec."" Signed autograph letter
Honfleur: s. n. 1895. Fine. s. n. Honfleur s.d. ca 1895 14 x 22 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter signed addressed to a journalist friend at Figaro illustré 28 lines in black ink. Fold mark inherent to envelope insertion a lack to upper corner of the letter without any damage to the text. Alphonse Allais must do a favor for his friend: ""Un peu de patience mon cher Abel un peu de patience. Sitôt rentré à Paris ma première démarche sera pour ton parapluie que je choisirai en soir gorge-pigeon et manche d'argent."" A little patience my dear Abel a little patience. As soon as I return to Paris my first errand will be for your umbrella which I will choose in pigeon-throat evening silk with a silver handle.; he therefore also allows himself to solicit the kindness of his correspondent: ""Et bien envoie-moi le n° du Figaro illustré d'il y a un mois ou deux où il y avait des choses de Toulouse-Lautrec."" Well then send me the issue of Figaro illustré from a month or two ago where there were things by Toulouse-Lautrec. He concludes his letter with a sententious: ""Donne-moi ta main loyale que je la serre. Ton Alphonse Allais. Bonjour aux amis."" Give me your loyal hand so I may shake it. Your Alphonse Allais. Greetings to friends. s. n. unknown
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Anatole FRANCE
"Travaillez travaillons de concert à la paix du monde"" Autograph manuscript signed abundantly corrected
Londres 1913. Fine. It is no longer a question of conquering the world; but of pacifying it. Work let us work together for world peace. Londres 12 décembre 1913 20 x 25.50 cm en feuillets Complete autograph manuscript in French by Anatole France 7 pages in black ink on 7 leaves and a signed autograph note on a bifolium. Complete and extensively corrected speech by Anatole France on the occasion of a banquet given in his honor in London. The future Nobel Prize winner for Literature delivers a passionate appeal for peace between nations and an ode to England - its philosophy literature and politics - less than a year before WW1. The writer offered this manuscript with a signed note: Keep dear colleague and friend keep these leaves of paper if they are of any value to you. Anatole France London December 12 1913. Anatole France's English biographer witnessed this speech which foreshadowed the absolute necessity of a close relationship between France and England based on their long and rich relationship: ""In December 1913 the Master paid a brief but memorable visit to this country. The central event of his sojourn in London was the banquet given in his honour at the Savoy Hotel. On this occasion it was apparently decided in those remote and exalted circles where such decisions are made that the socialist should be ignored his turn was to come later with the Fabians but that honour could and should be paid to the man of genius the foremost man of letters of the day. The feast was therefore presided over by a peer the late Lord Redesdale himself a gifted writer. The company was numerous and distinguished. . Monsieur France though an inimitable talker is not a speaker and on this occasion he read his discourse. All that I now remember of it was the rich deliberate music of the voice that uttered it and the words which he repeated with strange insistency: 'Travaillons de concert a la paix du monde''Let us work together for the peace of the world.' This was in December 1913. The exhortation thus reiterated seemed even then to be fraught with ominous significance and now looking back over the years of horror that were so soon to follow one wonders whether this old man with his strange inscrutable eyes and musical melancholy voice had somehow seen the shadow of the coming catastrophe."" J. Lewis May Anatole France the man and his work: an essay in critical biography p. 98-99. The manuscript contains numerous crossed-out and rewritten passages and shows the genesis of the writing of this beautiful speech: M.M. I am not sure that I am not dreaming. Welcomed with this splendid cordiality by so many men whose names works and thoughts represent so much greatness strength and beauty. . Your compatriots have authored masterpieces of this kind for two centuries. Need I remind you of Richardson and Fielding Swift and Daniel Defoe Walter Scott Dickens and Thackeray George Elliott . the novel is in England in its favorite soil like the apple in Normandy and the orange in Valencia. Why It takes a large volume or a single word to explain it. Well let's say it in a word. This word Lord Redesdale gave us a foretaste of it. It is that the novel is intimate cordial and familiar by nature and that the English has a familiar intimate and cordial spirit. Gentlemen I am not dreaming: it is a banquet I see the shining cups and the benevolent faces of the guests. And I can understand why you invited me. I am a symbol an allegory for you. I represent at this table the French literati just as at the festivals of the French Revolution the citizen Momoro represented the goddess Reason. Without being a goddess or particularly reasonable this idea puts me at ease and I won't quibble too much with you about the choice of your symbol. I tell myself that perhaps you didn't mind having a Frenchman at your table who having the weakness to write at least had the merit which you greatly value of never d unknown
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Zoe RAILLARD DE MARSAC
Lettres
1860. Fine. 1860 12.50 x 18.50 cm relié Collection comprising copies of several letters and articles regarding the publication of a booklet of poems in favor of the poor. These letters seek to gather subscriptions orders or approval with the protection of the curé of Saint-Sulpice who supported the project; they address both close friends and illustrious figures the Emperor for example religious or educational institutions with charity as their purpose. Contemporary half red sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with romantic tools in mirror. Gilt title: Souvenir d'une amie. Cipher E. R. on the upper board. Lacking marbled endpapers on the first and last blank leaves. A handsome copy. unknown
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Stefan ZWEIG
« J'avais la chance de pouvoir acquérir le lot entier un jour avant que Bayreuth envoyait une personne de confiance » Signed autograph letter addressed to Alfred Cortot and his wife about Richard Wagner's manuscript collection
Londres London 1937. Fine. Londres London 26 décembre 1937 17.90 x 22.90 cm une feuille Signed autograph letter to Alfred Cortot and his wife about Richard Wagner's manuscript collection: ""I was lucky enough to be able to acquire the entire lot one day before Bayreuth sent a trusted buyer"". London 26 December 1937 17.9x22.9cm one leaf. Autograph letter signed by Stefan Zweig to Alfred Cortot two pages on one sheet written in violet ink. An outstanding autograph letter in which the avid collector informs his friend Alfred Cortot of his acquisition of unpublished manuscripts of Wagner. Alfred Cortot himself owes his career as a conductor to his early discovery of the German composer. Cortot shared with Zweig his ""almost tyrannical bewitchment suffered with as much intoxication as fervor"" for the composer. Zweig who spoke of his collection as ""more worthy of surviving me than my own works"" The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European 1942 recounts for his friend the details of this incredible discovery of hundreds of forgotten leaflets including Wagner's intimate correspondence handwritten scores and excerpts from opera librettos including The Flying Dutchman The Sublime Fiancée or Bianca and Giuseppe Die Feen Das Liebesverbot The Ban on Love and a lost orchestral version of Rule Britannia. In December 1937 as he fled the Nazi regime and settled in London Zweig became fascinated by the archives of a time when intellectual Europe was living in perfect syncretism. The writer takes a nostalgic look at the manuscripts of Wagner who like him spent his youth travelling through the capitals of Europe: ""I was extraordinarily fortunate to be able to get my hands on a whole lot of Richard Wagner's musical and literary manuscripts from his early period Leipzig Magdeburg Riga and Paris during a short stay in Vienna"". Among these precious manuscripts is the extremely rare orchestral arrangement of the patriotic song Rule Britannia which had been missing for more than sixty years. Sharing his passion for Wagner with his friend the pianist Cortot Zweig announced his discovery with the wonder so familiar to collectors when faced with an exceptional find: "". the manuscript is the only one of its kind in the world that has been preserved. It contains things that will be of special interest to you for example the complete translation 60 pages of the French version unpublished I believe of the text of the ""Liebesverbot"" entirely in Wagner's hand as well as the manuscripts of a vaudeville song ""Descendons la Courtille"" which he performed in his darkest moments . almost thirty pieces of the highest interest and precisely from the rarest period. All this was hidden for 50 years in a private collection and I was lucky enough to be able to acquire the entire lot one day before Bayreuth sent a buyer"". The letter is a fascinating account of Zweig's parallel life which had earned him a reputation as an accomplished collector. His collection also inspired one of his most beautiful short stories The Invisible Collection die Unsichtbare Sammlung and a pioneering essay in the Deutscher Bibliophilen Kalender The Autograph Collection as an Art. His hundreds of historical musical and literary autographs from the Middle Ages to the 20th century were carefully catalogued and collected in the library-museum of his house in Kapuzinerberg: ""In this library a 'place of worship' he also exercises a real activity as an expert in autographs . . The library will attract a number of distinguished scholars sometimes accompanied by their assistants who will not hesitate to return to work there quietly for days or even weeks at a time"" Stefan Zweig le voyageur des mondes Serge Niemetz. With this acquisition Zweig sees the dream of every collector come true. After two years of exile in England Zweig returned to Vienna in time to purchase these exceptional documents from Bayreuth's emissaries who had already built up unknown
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Gregory MASUROVSKY
Carte de voeux autographe signée adressée à Georges et Alice Raillard pour Noël de l'année 1995 et de bonne année pour 1996
Paris 1995. Fine. Paris 26 Décembre 1995 15 x 21.50 cm une carte de voeux sous enveloppe Autograph signed Christmas card from Gregory Masurovsky for Christmas 1995 and the New Year 1996 addressed to art critic Georges Raillard and his wife Alice with envelope. The front of the card is illustrated with a reproduction of a pictorial work by Gregory Masurovsky titled ""L'homme à la Pomme-Adam"". The Christmas card is printed on Arches paper. unknown
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Gregory MASUROVSKY
Carte de voeux autographe signée adressée à Georges et Alice Raillard
Paris 2008. Fine. Paris 6 Janvier 2008 15 x 10.50 cm une carte de voeux sous enveloppe Autograph signed Christmas card from Gregory Masurovsky addressed to art critic Georges Raillard and his wife Alice with envelope. The front of the card is illustrated with a reproduction of a pictorial work by Gregory Masurovsky titled ""L'apparition de la vierge et l'enfant"". unknown
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Gerard de NERVAL
Billet autographe signé de Gérard de Nerval adressé à Georges Bell
s. l. 1853. Fine. s. l. s. d. 1853 13.50 x 8.80 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by Gérard de Nerval addressed to his friend Georges Bell four lines written in pencil and signed with his first name ""Gérard"". Stamp mark on verso. Two small pin holes not touching the text two transverse fold marks inherent to the folding of the letter. This short note was written during the writer's penultimate stay at Doctor Blanche's in 1853. This letter has been transcribed in volume 3 of Nerval's Complete Works in the Pléiade edition. Gérard de Nerval met Joachim Hounau known by his pen name Georges Bell at Joseph Méry's home in Marseille in 1843 upon his return from his journey to the Orient. Bell was a very close friend of Gérard de Nerval who on his deathbed would call him to his bedside. Gérard de Nerval's autographs are very rare. unknown
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Lawrence DURRELL
"L'amérique est plein de fric de frustrées et d'ennui."" Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun
Malibu 1971. Fine. Malibu s. d. 10.50 x 15 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in black felt-tip pen on the verso of a photograph of a Malibu beach. ""Buttons hola ! L'amérique est plein de fric de frustrées et d'ennui. Pourtant on est très bien traités et je joue un peu le rôle de Scott Fitzgerald à Malibu."" ""Buttons hello! America is full of money frustrated women and boredom. Yet we are very well treated and I play a bit the role of Scott Fitzgerald in Malibu."". After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only with a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus Les citrons acides he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedocian village of Sommières. In the ""maison Tartès"" his large house surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and vivacious ""Jany"" Janine Brun a woman from Montpellier in her thirties with devastating beauty who worked at the Department of Antiquities at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we keep precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received extensive correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown
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Lawrence DURRELL
"Pour notre dernier jour de tournage on va filmer Pharaon"" Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun
Egypte Egypt 1971. Fine. Egypte Egypt 1971 10.50 x 15 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed ""Larry"" by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in black felt-tip pen on the verso of a photograph of an Egyptian bas-relief. The writer to his young Montpellier lover: ""For our last day of filming we're going to film Pharaoh receiving the Bonbel Prize for his novel about the private life of a Nile crocodile: 'Le croc'. Then I have to return to London for a few weeks. I hope all is well dear Buttons."". After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the traveling writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only with a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus Les citrons acides he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""Tartès house"" his large residence surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and sparkling ""Jany"" Janine Brun a thirty-something woman from Montpellier of devastating beauty who worked at the Department of Antiquities at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we retain precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received vast correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown
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Amable TASTU
Lettre autographe signée d'Amable Tastu à sa belle-mère Élise Voïart
1840. Fine. s. d. circa 1840 9.80 x 13.80 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Amable Tastu addressed to her mother-in-law Élise Voïart and written in black ink. A small tear in left margin not touching text. unknown
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Gerard de NERVAL
Billet autographe signé de Gérard de Nerval adressé à Georges Bell
1853. Fine. s. d. 1853-1854 8.50 x 13.90 cm un billet sur un petit bout de papier Autograph note by Gérard de Nerval signed ""votre Gérard"" addressed to Georges Bell: ""Au fait je ne suis pas sûr de venir de bonne heure demain parce que je sors aujourd'hui. Tâchez donc d'être vers 3 heures au Mousquetaire. Mais ne vous gênez pas en cas de difficulté."" ""Actually I'm not sure I'll come early tomorrow because I'm going out today. Try to be at the Mousquetaire around 3 o'clock. But don't inconvenience yourself if there are any difficulties."" Some transverse folds and tiny pinholes. This note has been transcribed in the correspondence published in the Pléiade edition volume 3 p. 839 it was written during Nerval's penultimate or final stay at Doctor Blanche's clinic. unknown
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Lawrence DURRELL
"Buttons. Je ne vous crois pas !"" Autograph postcard from Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun
Sommières 1971. Fine. Sommières 12-02-1971 10.50 x 14.50 cm une carte postale et enveloppe Autograph postcard from Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in red felt-tip pen on the reverse of a reproduction of a small poster Mystification conceived by Jacques Yonnet "". Keep your head above water - Prolonged immersion of nose and mouth can cause fatal asphyxia"" with attached press clipping ""direct with a virile gland."" envelope included. The writer informs his young Montpellier lover about his upcoming travels: ""Buttons. Je ne vous crois pas ! je suis ici pour 15 jours encore - puis Genève pour une semaine"" ""Buttons. I don't believe you! I'm here for another 15 days - then Geneva for a week"". After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the traveling writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to independence from the British Crown. Rich only with a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""Tartès house"" his grand residence surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and sparkling ""Jany"" Janine Brun a woman from Montpellier in her thirties with devastating beauty who worked at the Antiquities department of the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional letters that remain unpublished. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we retain precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips particularly to England from where she received extensive correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown
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Gerard de NERVAL
Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à Joseph Méry Autograph letter signed by Gérard de Nerval addressed to Joseph Méry
Paris 1853. Fine. Autograph letter signed ""your friend Gérard"" addressed to Joseph Méry Paris 23 septembre 1853 9.70 x 14.50 cm une page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Autograph letter signed ""your friend Gérard"" addressed to Joseph Méry. Envelope with a small angular tear due to the original sealing enclosed. Horizontal folds. This letter is reproduced in the Pléiade edition of his correspondence vol. 3 p. 811. ""Envoyez vite à Théo ce qui est imprimé de la pièce. Il fera de grandes citations surtout le Serpent."" The ""pièce"" in question is Gusman le Brave first performed at the Odéon on 23 September 1853. On 4 October Théophile Gautier discussed the play in La Presse. ""Le Serpent"" refers to Josés tale in Act II scene 1. unknown
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Gerard de NERVAL
Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à Hippolyte Delaunay
Paris 1841. Fine. Paris s. d. avril 1841 13.50 x 21 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Gérard de Nerval addressed to Hippolyte Delaunay written in black ink. Recipient's name in Nerval's hand on the verso of the leaf. A central fold inherent to the mailing. This letter has been transcribed in Nerval's Complete Works in the Pléiade edition. Gérard de Nerval is finally ""free and released from the Maison Blanche"" after staying there following his crisis of early spring 1841. This is not however a definitive release but probably permission granted by Doctor Blanche to his patient the latter would not be definitively released until November 1841. The handwriting difficult to read in places shows Gérard de Nerval's feverishness as he seeks to reconnect with the literary milieu: ""I bring masses of copy for you and three or four other journals."" Hippolyte Delaunay was editor-in-chief of the review L'Artiste in which Nerval published on April 11th of the same year an article entitled ""Mémoires d'un Parisien Sainte-Pélagie 1832"". unknown
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