‎Autographes‎

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 87859

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 87999

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 88289

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 70612

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 71508

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73367

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73433

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73355

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 72928

‎Marcel JOUHANDEAU‎

‎Billet autographe signé de Marcel Jouhandeau adressé à son cher ami‎

‎1941. Fine. Samedi 6 novembre 1941 10 x 15.80 cm une feuille Autograph note signed by Marcel Jouhandeau addressed to his dear friend. 9 lines in blue ink on a leaf fold marks inherent to the letter's folding for envelope. ""Malgré le très grand plaisir que je me faisais de vous recevoir demain. Je ne suis pas libre. Excusez-moi. Dès que possible. Je vous ferai signe."" ""Despite the great pleasure I was looking forward to receiving you tomorrow. I am not free. Excuse me. As soon as possible. I will let you know."" Fine condition. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73217

‎Lawrence DURRELL‎

‎"D'avoir soixante ans et d'être aimé très mal d'ailleurs par les vampires"" • Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun‎

‎Sommières 1971. Fine. Sommières 20-04-1971 10.50 x 14.50 cm une carte postale et enveloppe Autograph postcard by Lawrence Durrell signed ""Dracula"" addressed to Jani Brun written in blue ink reproduction of a drawing by Marcel Vaysse ""Ils sortent.tous les soirs"" ""They go out.every evening"" envelope included. The writer teasingly mocks his young Montpellier mistress with humor: ""Darling Janie - maintenant qu'il fait beau la saison est ouverte et malgré mon age je reçois pas mal des invitations; souvent les filles de dix ans m'envoient des propositions inscrites par télégramme. J'estime que le rôle de papa gâteux me va bien ""le gâtisme c'est le relachment des sphinctères"" Dictionnaire medicale - Pujot"". Je vais en Grèce avec une 2 3 4 filles plus fidé que vous pour faire des reportages appellation contrôlée. D'avoir soixante ans et d'être aimé très mal d'ailleurs par les vampires - n'est pas que c'est splendide Dracula"" ""Darling Janie - now that the weather is fine the season is open and despite my age I receive quite a few invitations; often ten-year-old girls send me proposals written by telegram. I think the role of a doting daddy suits me well 'dotage is the loosening of the sphincters' Medical Dictionary - Pujot. I'm going to Greece with one 2 3 4 girls more faithful than you to do some appellation contrôlée reporting. To be sixty years old and to be loved very badly moreover by vampires - isn't that splendid Dracula"" 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 he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""Tartès house"" his large dwelling 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 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 particularly to England from where she received extensive correspondence from the writer as well as original artworks signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73354

‎Gerard de NERVAL‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à Daniel Rouy‎

‎s. l. 1849. Fine. s. l. 1837 ou 1849 9.90 x 14.30 cm une page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Autograph letter signed ""votre bien dévoué Gérard"" addressed to Daniel Rouy. Envelope included. This letter simply dated ""Le 12"" could have been written in August 1849 if we refer to a letter to Ernesta Grisi companion of his friend Théophile Gautier in which the poet mentions such a discount: ""Je n'ai pu toucher l'argent qu'aujourd'hui mercredi. M. Rouy n'y était pas. J'y suis allé 4 fois et j'ai porté les 10F. aujourd'hui je ne sais pas s'il faut faire le prochain feuilleton ni comment il faut signer."" ""I could only get the money today Wednesday. Mr. Rouy was not there. I went 4 times and brought the 10F. today I don't know if I should do the next serial or how to sign it."" Pléiade volume 1 letter 143 of August 30 1849. However Michel Brix author of Nerval Glanes et miettes de presse and member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium very kindly pointed out to us that Nerval signed ""Gérard"" rather between 1837 and 1840 and that in 1849 he signed this type of note ""Gérard de Nerval"". unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73289

‎Gerard de NERVAL‎

‎Billet autographe signé de Gérard de Nerval adressé à Eugène de Stadler‎

‎Paris 1854. Fine. Paris s. d. après le 8 août 1854 9.70 x 13.20 cm une page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Autograph note signed ""Gérard"" addressed to his close friend Eugène de Stadler. Envelope included. Folds inherent to posting. A small hole in the envelope consequence of its sealing. This note has been transcribed in the correspondence published in the Pléiade edition volume 3 p. 889. Astonishing and succinct note written just after his arrival at Doctor Blanche's inviting his friend to dinner ""à la meson sic Blanche"" ""at the Blanche house"". On the envelope in an even more disordered handwriting than that of the note one reads a few words in pencil: ""J'ai donné à Antony et à Blanche . Mirecourt"" ""I gave to Antony and to Blanche . Mirecourt"". Gérard de Nerval had indeed discovered a few months earlier a pamphlet by Eugène de Mirecourt dedicated to him: "".j'ai trouvé la biographie sur l'étalage d'un libraire. Mirecourt m'a bien chargé. Il m'a peint en beau.et en buste. Je relèverai les erreurs quelque autre jour mais il a trop parlé de ma misère"" "".I found the biography on a bookseller's stall. Mirecourt has really gone after me. He has painted me favorably.and in bust. I will point out the errors some other day but he has talked too much about my poverty"" Letter to Georges Bell of June 1 1854. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73343

‎Gerard de NERVAL‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à Auguste Cavé‎

‎Paris 1841. Fine. Paris 18 novembre 1841 13.90 x 20.80 cm une page sur un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by Gérard de Nerval addressed to Auguste Cavé written in careful handwriting in black ink on the first page of a double sheet. Minor traces of folds inherent to posting and some light foxing. This letter was transcribed in Nerval's Complete Works in the Pléiade edition. After two violent nervous breakdowns Gérard de Nerval was compelled to stay at Dr. Blanche's clinic between March and November 1841. Short of money he addressed this letter to his friend Auguste Cavé then director of the Fine Arts section at the Ministry of the Interior to solicit his support with ""M. le Ministre"": ""Quoi qu'entièrement rendu à la santé je sens que je ne puis encore travailler qu'avec ménagement et s'il était possible que l'on m'aidât d'une légère somme mensuelle . je serais plus sûr de pouvoir reprendre peu à peu ma position littéraire sans risquer de nouveaux accidens"" ""Though entirely restored to health I feel that I can only work with care and if it were possible to be helped with a small monthly sum . I would be more certain of being able to gradually resume my literary position without risking new accidents"". unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 72914

‎Octave MIRBEAU‎

‎"je voudrais pouvoir chanter en votre honneur un bel épithalame. Le malheur est que je ne suis pas poète."" • Autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to Alfred Natanson‎

‎Nice Villa Ibrahim chemin des Baumettes Nice 1901. Fine. Nice Villa Ibrahim chemin des Baumettes Nice 8 Février 1901 12.50 x 17.60 cm une feuille Friendly autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to the playwright and founder of the Revue Blanche Alfred Natanson some time after his marriage. 12 lines in black ink on a folded sheet mourning paper with black border watermarked ""JDL & cie"" envelope included. ""Je vous envoie à votre femme et à vous tous nos vœux affectueux et je voudrais pouvoir chanter en votre honneur un bel épithalame. Le malheur est que je ne suis pas poète. Mais nous somme vos amis et nous vous embrassons de tout notre cœur. Nous avions espéré que vous viendriez passer quelques jours à Cannes et nous nous faisions une fête de vous avoir ici. Misia nous dit que vous avez renoncé à ce voyage. Comme c'est ennuyeux ! ."". ""I send to your wife and to you all our affectionate wishes and I would like to be able to sing a beautiful epithalamium in your honor. The misfortune is that I am not a poet. But we are your friends and we embrace you with all our heart. We had hoped that you would come to spend a few days in Cannes and we were looking forward to having you here. Misia tells us that you have given up this trip. How annoying! ."". Mirbeau was particularly close to the Revue Blanche group since its launch in Paris in 1891. But it was from the Dreyfus affair that his intimate and lasting friendship with the Natanson brothers Thadée Alexandre and Alfred was strengthened. After aesthetic disagreements about Art Nouveau and the Nabis Mirbeau finally reunited with Thadée around 1900 in a now common inclination for the young Nabis painters of the Revue Blanche Bonnard Vallotton and Vuillard. The Revue Blanche played an essential role in France as confirmed by historian Paul-Henri Bourrelier: ""Most of the most prominent writers painters musicians politicians intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collaborated with it or were associated with it. Created financed and directed by the three Natanson brothers young Polish Jews with the enthusiastic complicity of their classmates from the Condorcet lycée La Revue blanche quickly became a place of debate on all subjects that stirred France. It led political battles under the impulse of anarchists like Fénéon Mirbeau; socialists such as Blum G. Moch Péguy; Dreyfusards and founders of the League of Human Rights like Reinach and Pressensé."" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73700

‎Sacha GUITRY‎

‎"avec ce naturel incomparable que l'on a pris souvent pour du talent et qui n'est que du génie comique"" • Autograph note signed by Sacha Guitry to the actor Louis Bouchené dit Baron fils‎

‎s. l. 1910. Fine. s. l. s. d. 20.70 x 10.60 cm une feuille Autograph note signed by Sacha Guitry to the actor Louis Bouchené known as Baron fils. 7 lines in blue ink on ""Basseau Strong"" watermarked paper. ""O Grand Baron. Je vous dédie en témoignage de reconnaissance cette bouffonnerie dont vous avez incarné le rôle principal avec ce naturel incomparable que l'on a pris souvent pour du talent et qui n'est que du génie comique"". ""O Great Baron. I dedicate to you in token of gratitude this buffoonery in which you embodied the leading role with that incomparable naturalness which has often been mistaken for talent and which is nothing but comic genius"" The actor Baron fils embodied numerous roles in Sacha Guitry's plays notably La Prise de Berg-op-Zoom La Pèlerine écossaise L'Illusionniste Deburau Le Mari la Femme et l'Amant Nono and Faisons un rêve. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73656

‎Donatien Alphonse Francois de SADE‎

‎Lettre autographe inédite signée du Marquis de Sade alors en liberté au commencement de la Terreur • Unpublished autograph letter signed by the Marquis de Sade then at liberty at the beginning of the Terror‎

‎1793. Fine. 1er avril 1793 15.60 x 20 cm une page sur un feuillet Unpublished autograph letter signed and dated written in black ink and addressed to a notary. On the verso probably in the hand of a secretary the inscription ""Sade du 1er avril 1793""; below this inscription a short sentence in the Marquis's hand: ""so that I may write to Gaufridy to send him money"". Some transverse folds from the original folding for posting. Lengthy letter addressed to a notary while the Marquis freed on April 2 1790 by the abolition of royal warrants is at liberty and attempting to put his affairs in order. After the Revolution his sons emigrated and he did not follow them. His name nevertheless appears on the list of persons who left France due to the revolutionary troubles: ""I hope that with all this I will manage to have my name erased from that fatal list of émigrés."" Anxious not to be considered a ci-devant Marquis in this period preceding the Terror he insists on the persecution of which he claims to be a victim despite his good will: ""It is an unparalleled atrocity that such a trick should have been played on me who have not left Paris since the revolution and who since that time have not ceased to give the most unequivocal proofs of my patriotism"". In this letter Sade also denounces the complexity of the workings of the French administration after the Revolution: ""I have just sent M. Lions the appropriate certificate of residence and I have attached a petition to the district which he tells me is . essential."" Impecunious he begs his lawyer ""to excite the zeal of those who owe him and to urge them to pay as much money as they collect immediately to M. Gauffridi sic"" and does not hesitate to show himself obliging in order to achieve his ends: ""spare no effort then I beseech you . always preserve for me your care and your friendship . I embrace and greet you with all my heart."" Sade's efforts would prove futile; in December 1793 he was imprisoned at the Madelonnettes before being admitted through the good offices of his friend Mme Quenet to the Coignard de Picpus establishment a nursing home sheltering wealthy suspects. Interesting unpublished letter showing the unfortunate Marquis at bay during one of his rare moments of freedom. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73394

‎Albert T'SERSTEVENS‎

‎Carte postale autographe signée et adressée à un ami bouquiniste depuis Anduze‎

‎Manosque 1972. Fine. Manosque 17 Juin 1972 10.50 x 15 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph postcard signed with 17 lines by Albert T'Serstevens addressed to his friend bookseller and horticulturist Robert Boutin from Anduze on June 17 1972 narrating the rhythm of life he has adopted between work and contemplation of the flourishing nature since he has been residing in the Gard: ""Cher bouquiniste et surtout jardinier depuis exactement un mois je n'ai quitté ma table de travail que pour manger et dormir. les héliantes ont si bien prospéré qu'elles ont couvert toute la plate-bande le long de la façade principale. les vieux tilleuls sont en fleur."" ""Dear bookseller and above all gardener for exactly a month I have not left my work table except to eat and sleep. the sunflowers have thrived so well that they have covered the entire flower bed along the main façade. the old linden trees are in bloom."" Finally he takes leave of his friend by asking him to provide news of himself while waiting to consider returning to Paris. Envelope included. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74197

‎COLETTE‎

‎"On croit toujours que la pensée qui est une force touche son but aussi bien qu'un message écrit."" • Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend Bolette Natanson‎

‎Paris 1936. Fine. Paris s. d. 12 mars 1936 17.80 x 22.60 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Fine autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend Bolette Natanson. Two pages written in ink on blue headed paper from the Marignan building the writer's residence between 1936 and 1938. Transverse folds inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing. Moving letter addressed by Colette to her close friend following the death of her father Alexandre Natanson: "". ce dimanche va être un dimanche bien pénible. Je t'écris à l'heure juste où tu conduis ton père."" ""this Sunday is going to be a very painful Sunday. I am writing to you at the very moment when you are laying your father to rest."" Conscious of the suffering and ""chagrin"" ""grief"" of her ""chère Bolette"" ""dear Bolette"" she affectionately offers her support ""On croit toujours que la pensée qui est une force touche son but aussi bien qu'un message écrit."" ""We always believe that thought which is a force reaches its target as well as a written message."" ending her letter with a very beautiful declaration: ""Beaucoup de visages humains se penchent vers le tien et tu ne les aimes pas tous. Le mien que tu ne verras pas te suit de loin et s'inquiète de toi."" ""Many human faces lean toward yours and you do not love them all. Mine which you will not see follows you from afar and worries about you."" Bolette would commit suicide a few months later. Having evolved since her earliest childhood in artistic circles - she was the daughter of Alexandre and the niece of Thadée Natanson the creators of the famous Revue Blanche - Bolette Natanson 1892-1936 became friends with Jean Cocteau Raymond Radiguet Georges Auric Jean Hugo and also Colette. Passionate about couture she left Paris for the United States with Misia Sert a great friend of Coco Chanel and was hired at Goodman. With her husband Jean-Charles Moreux they created in 1929 the gallery Les Cadres on boulevard Saint-Honoré and frequented numerous artists and intellectuals. Their success was immediate and they multiplied their projects: the creation of the fireplace for Winnaretta de Polignac the decoration of the château de Maulny the arrangement of Baron de Rothschild's private mansion the creation of frames for industrialist Bernard Reichenbach and finally the creation of the storefront for Colette's beauty institute in 1932. Bolette Natanson also framed the works of her prestigious painter friends: Bonnard Braque Picasso Vuillard Man Ray André Dunoyer de Segonzac etc. Despite this meteoric rise she would end her life in December 1936 a few months after her father's death. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74160

‎Antonio TORRES‎

‎Carte postale autographe signée adressée à sa traductrice en français Alice Raillard‎

‎Coimbra 1995. Fine. Coimbra s. d. circa 1995 14.50 x 10.50 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard dated and signed with 9 lines entirely written in Brazilian by the writer Antonio Torres addressed to the translator of his works into French Alice Raillard from Guyana. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74173

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎"Le passeport français est moche mais il vaut mieux que rien."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen‎

‎s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. • Klarskovgaard 12 octobre 1950 21 x 34 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Partly unpublished autograph letter signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline ""ami tenace et obligé"" addressed to his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number ""579"" in Céline's hand in red pencil at top left. Transverse folds inherent to posting. This letter was very partially transcribed in the Année Céline 2005. Very enigmatic letter: ""Aladin avait déjà une très jolie lampe - avec celle là vous allez voir un peu les trésors que je vais découvrir. Vous avez raison du reste - Carpe Diem ! Mais vous savez la moitié au moins du destin : c'est le PASSEPORT. Le passeport français est moche et moch. mais il vaut mieux que rien."" ""Aladdin already had a very pretty lamp - with this one you're going to see the treasures I'm going to discover. You're right besides - Carpe Diem! But you know at least half of destiny: it's the PASSPORT. The French passport is ugly and ugly. but it's better than nothing."" Note in passing the play on words with the name of Jules Moch vice-president of the council from 1949 to 1950. He informs Mikkelsen: ""J'ai aussi merde ! un cadeau à vous offrir et que vous accepterez nom de dieu ! parce que c'est un livre en Suédois ! donc scandinave ! donc divin ! donc touchable acceptable recevable non puant."" ""I also have damn! a gift to offer you and which you will accept by God! because it's a book in Swedish! therefore Scandinavian! therefore divine! therefore touchable acceptable receivable non-stinking."" In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement is confined in Denmark. It is in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrives at his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen's home in Klarskovgaard. The latter owns a large property by the Baltic Sea and invites the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the purification process the writer is definitively sentenced in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year's imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The Swedish consul general in Paris Raoul Nordling intervenes on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs and manages to delay his extradition. On April 20 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtains Céline's amnesty as a ""severely disabled veteran of the Great War"" by presenting his file under the name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches without any magistrate making the connection. Céline would leave Denmark the following summer after three years spent at his lawyer's home. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75963

‎COLETTE‎

‎"Je suis sans nouvelles de Sidi. Je me fais toute une chevelure de soucis."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Adrien Peytel‎

‎Paris 1914. Fine. Paris 1914 13.60 x 21.20 cm en feuillets Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel two pages written in black ink in hurried handwriting on a double sheet with L'Eclair newspaper letterhead. A central fold inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing. Fine letter from Colette testimony to the confusion that seized France at the dawn of the Great War: ""Nothing is working. I am stuck here for a piece they are asking me to write."" The writer worries: ""I have no news from Sidi Henry de Jouvenel. I am creating a whole head of worries for myself. I don't know where he is he wrote to me that he was leaving with the 29th for the Somme. Ah! la la la la la la."" ""Colette a entendu sonner le tocsin en Bretagne où elle passait un séjour ensoleillé avec le baron Henry de Jouvenel et leur fille dans sa maison de Rozven. La guerre la surprend en plein bonheur à quarante et un ans. . Son mari appelé dès le 2 août devant rejoindre le 29e régiment d'infanterie à Verdun elle a aussitôt envoyé sa fille à peine âgée d'un an avec sa nurse au château de Castel Novel en Corrèze - chez sa belle-mère. Et elle est rentrée à Paris."" ""Colette heard the tocsin ringing in Brittany where she was spending a sunny stay with Baron Henry de Jouvenel and their daughter in her house at Rozven. The war surprised her in the midst of happiness at forty-one years old. . Her husband called up from August 2nd having to join the 29th infantry regiment at Verdun she immediately sent her daughter barely a year old with her nurse to the château de Castel Novel in Corrèze - to her mother-in-law's. And she returned to Paris."" Dominique Bona Colette et les siennes unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75220

‎Paul SIGNAC - (to Camille PISSARRO)‎

‎"Cela vous ennuirait-il sic d'écrire à Mirbeau qu'un Signac à votre avis ne ressemble pas plus à un Seurat qu'un Hokousai à un Hiroshigé. "" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Camille Pissarro‎

‎1894. Fine. s. d. 23 janvier 1894 22.60 x 17.50 cm 2 pages sur un double feuillet déplié Autograph letter signed by Paul Signac addressed to Camille Pissarro written in black ink over two pages and signed with the artist’s monogram. This letter was transcribed in the article by Pierre Michel and Christian Limousin entitled ""Octave Mirbeau et Paul Signac - Une lettre inédite de Signac à Mirbeau"" in Cahiers Octave Mirbeau no. 16 March 2009 pp. 202-210. ""Mon cher Maître Cela vous ennuirait-il sic d'écrire à Mirbeau qu'un Signac à votre avis ne ressemble pas plus à un Seurat qu'un Hokousai à un Hiroshigé. si toutes fois sic le reproche d'imitation dont il cherche à m'accabler vous semble injuste. L'amitié que vous m'avez toujours témoignée et les compliments que vous avez bien voulu faire de mes toiles m'autorisent à vous demander ce service. Cordialement. PS"" A fine letter in which Paul Signac seeks the support of his master Camille Pissarro after a scathing critique published by Octave Mirbeau in L'Echo de Paris. In this article featured on the front page of L'Echo de Paris of 23 January 1894 Octave Mirbeau spares Signac no harshness: « M. Signac a voulu continuer Seurat. Je ne puis me faire à sa peinture. Je ne méconnais pas ses qualités mais elles disparaissent sous l'amoncellement de ses défauts. Ce qu'on admettait de Georges Seurat . on le comprend moins chez M. Signac qui n'en est que l'adepte trop complaisant et trop littéral. Et puis cette continuelle sécheresse me choque. M. Signac fait la nature immobile et figée. Jamais le vent n'a secoué la surface inerte de ses mers ni tordu les branches de ses pins ni animé l'éternelle fixité de ses nuages la raideur cartonnée de ses ciels. Il ignore le mouvement la vie l'âme qui est dans les choses. . Il serait peut-être temps pour notre joie que M. Signac voulût bien nous donner du Signac. Je crois qu'il le peut.» Why this obsession with Seurat « At the beginning of 1894 the position of Mirbeau Geffroy Pissarro and a few others was to consider that Neo-Impressionism had in fact died in 1891 with the passing of Seurat. Their retrospective view of this artistic venture led them to think that it was not a continuation of Impressionism by new scientific means but a reaction against it even a liquidation of the movement.» Cahiers Octave Mirbeau. Pissarro’s reply to Signac also transcribed by Michel and Limousin was not long in coming: it « l'ennuirait d'écrire ce que vous me demandez à Mirbeau et cela pour plusieurs raisons. . Premièrement parce que je suis en froid avec lui vous le savez bien. Deuxièmement parce que pour vous-même il ne sied pas de discuter l'opinion d'un critique même étant persuadé d'être dans le vrai et si vous voulez franchement ma façon de penser et que je suis heureux d'avoir l'occasion de vous exprimer je trouve que la méthode même est mauvaise. Au lieu de servir l'artiste l'ankylose et le glace. Si je vous ai fait des compliments cette année c'est parce que j'ai trouvé vos dernières toiles mieux que celles que vous aviez exposées aux Indépendants mais je suis loin de trouver que vous êtes dans la voie qui convient à votre tempérament essentiellement peintre et si jusqu'à présent je ne vous ai rien dit à ce sujet c'est parce que j'étais sûr de vous être désagréable et somme toute mes convictions peuvent ne pas être partagées par vous. Réfléchissez mûrement et voyez si le moment n'est pas venu de faire votre évolution vers un art plus de sensation plus libre et qui serait plus conforme à votre nature.» « Disheartened and deprived of the authority of a master revered by the critic Signac was left to devise himself without delay the reply to address to Mirbeau . » ibid. This response took the form of a long letter written the same day as the one offered here and now preserved at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Austin Texas: « Je reconnais hautement que c'est Seurat qui a insta unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75511

‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou proposant plusieurs choix de rendez-vous à son correspondant‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. 1890. Fine. S. n. s. l. • Paris s. d. circa 1890 26.50 x 20.50 cm une page et demie sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count one and a half pages 15 lines written in black ink to Henri Lapauze offering him several appointment options at his home: "". I shall be delighted to receive you on Friday at 10 o'clock or at 2 o'clock as you prefer. We are charmed to have you in Douai."" A black ink stain in the margin on the verso of the letter. Henry Lapauze 1867-1925 was a journalist and art critic who became in 1905 curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet Henner and Falguière collections with in the twilight of his life a marked predilection for the Decorative Arts of which he was one of the ardent promoters. S. n. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74255

‎George SAND - (Maurice SAND)‎

‎Manuscrit autographe signé à propos du ""Coq aux cheveux d'or"" de Maurice Sand‎

‎Nohant Nohant-Vic 1872. Fine. Nohant Nohant-Vic 19 semptembre 1872 13.20 x 20.60 cm 20 pages 1/2 sur 21 feuillets Autograph manuscript signed by George Sand written in black ink on 21 leaves of white paper. Deletions and corrections. One page of the manuscript appears to have been lost. The final version of this chronicle whose text conforms to the manuscript we offer was published in Impressions et souvenirs Paris M. Lévy 1873. George Sand would devote another article to her son's novel in Questions d'art et de littérature in 1878. The first edition of Maurice Sand's Coq aux cheveux d'or was published by Lacroix and Verboeckhoven in 1867. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75733