‎Autographes‎

‎Victor SCHOELCHER‎

‎Lettre autographe signée à Alfred Boucher-Cadart‎

‎1879. Fine. 12 mars 1879 10.20 x 13.30 cm une page sur un bifeuillet et une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Victor Schoelcher one page written in black ink on a bifolium of blue paper bearing the monogram and address of the politician addressed to minister Alfred Boucher-Cadart director of the general security service at the Ministry of the Interior. The envelope containing this letter has been pasted onto the second leaf. Central fold inherent to the mailing. ""There is nothing more to be done for the worker Cauchare. He was forced to serve his 10 days in prison while the Ministry of Justice was changing his sentence. I nonetheless thank you for your goodwill toward the poor man and I ask you to accept the assurance of my highest consideration."" unknown‎

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‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Manuscrits autographes signés inédits de deux importantes parties de Normance Féérie pour une autre fois II • Two unpublished autograph manuscripts signed by Louis-Ferdinand Celine in blue and red ballpoint pen: the first contains 9 pages numbered in the left-hand corner from 1480 to 1488; the second contains 7 pages numbered from 1498 to 1504. Each text is signed by Celine in red ink at the bottom margin with the words ""Meudon 54"" also in his hand ff. 1485 and 1505. There are numerous variants lines and words crossed out modified and repeated.‎

‎Meudon 1954. Fine. Meudon 1954 20 x 27 cm 16 feuillets 9 pour le premier manuscrit 7 pour le second Two unpublished autograph manuscripts signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline in blue and red ballpoint pen: the first contains 9 pages numbered in the left-hand corner from 1480 to 1488; the second contains 7 pages numbered from 1498 to 1504. Each text is signed by Céline in red ink at the bottom margin with the words ""Meudon 54"" also in his hand ff. 1485 and 1505. There are numerous variants lines and words crossed out modified and repeated. Traces of pinholes in the upper left-hand margin of every sheet as Céline organized his manuscripts in ""bundles"". Normance was published in 1954 as a sequel to 'Fable for Another Time' published two years earlier. Both parts were written during Céline's years of exile and imprisonment in Denmark. Upon his return to France in 1951 Céline began ""polishing"" his writings and published these two monumental texts initially envisaged as a single book. ""Céline while he was working on it thought of this novel as a second ‘Journey to the End of the Night' twenty years later capable to astonish the public as much as the 1932 novel"" Henri Godard. This set of manuscript pages corresponds to two passages from the second half of the novel Romans Pléiade IV p. 371 to 375 significantly different from the published text. This is an earlier version unknown to scholar Henri Godard as evidenced by a note in the Pléiade edition where he explains the difficulties encountered by Céline's secretary Marie Canavaggia when translating the word ""planqaouzeuze"" - appearing here on one of the manuscript leaves. Her transcription ""plaquouseuze"" eventually remained in the published text. Godard further stated he had no knowledge of this part of the manuscript i.e. our manuscript not appearing in the intermediate versions transcribed and published in the Pléiade edition. The first of the manuscripts recounts the ransacking and looting of psychic Armelle's apartment: ""How many decks did Armelle have Her fortune-telling cards were taking the air! . Ah seeress! Something she hadn't guessed was how her trembles would be tarred! They'd rip open her armchairs crush her fine hiding places! ah Pythonisse! ah the quilt now! the inside of the pillows flies! flies away!"" Céline also evokes Madame Toiselle the building's concierge: ""- It's a mess Madame Toiselle. I yell it at her. she was a maniac! . moron! she's looking now! she's looking good! ah I see her consternation.she's there in front of me on all fours. I can see her head! Her hoe! - Omelette head!"" I shout to her ‘Omelette head'!” The second focuses on Raymond in the grip of a delirious crisis thinking he's a donkey: ""Raymond Raymond! but it's your wife you're looking for! it's true he was looking for his wife.! well maybe five minutes ago he was looking for his wife! Denise! . now he's looking for himself. . - Hiian! hiiian! he answers me!” There's also a comical settling of scores between Mimi and Rodolphe: ""There goes Mimi then there goes Rodolphe! Rodolphe! they're coming! and how they're treating each other! where were they on the threshold the two of them! they're taking advantage of the lull in the bombs! - Pig! Pimp! - Cabotine! coureuse! and they attack their costumes. "" Remarkable manuscripts bearing witness to Céline's tireless pursuit in finding the right word and his willingness to place himself as a direct witness to events both historical and autobiographical. These unpublished manuscript lines are typical of the Celinian style of this ambitious novel: ""The story style and tone of Normance set it apart from the rest. It is nothing more than the long account of a night of bombing in Montmartre told in his own way by Céline who had been deeply impressed by the spectacle of the bombing of the Renault automobile factories in Boulogne-Billancourt which he had witnessed from the windows of his apartment in Rue Girardon. T unknown‎

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‎Marcel PROUST‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Mme Catusse • Proust mourning his beloved mother: ""New Year's Day is just an occasion for me -- as if occasions were needed! -- to reminisce and weep""‎

‎s. l. 1907. Fine. s. l. s. d. ca 1907 12.60 x 20.40 cm 3 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed to Madame Catusse 126x204cm 3 pages on a double leaf.   Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust probably addressed to Madame Catusse. The recipient and date have been determined by Proust scholar Jean-Yves Tadié. Three pages in black ink on a double leaf edged in black. A fold inherent to the mailing. A sombre and admirable letter steeped in Proustian melancholy. The future author of In Search of Lost Time feels more than ever the loss of his mother during the New Year period. The famously generous Proust also asks his faithful confidante Madame Catusse to buy a gift for the Straus couple whose wife inspired the character of the Comtesse de Guermantes.   The end of 1907 apparent date of this letter alluding to the approaching New Year marks the second holiday season spent without Madame Proust who had died two years earlier: ""New Year's Day is only an occasion for me - as if occasions were needed! -- to reminisce and weep"". Proust had also expressed this sentiment in a letter to Anna de Noailles the year before ""New Year's Day had a terrible evocative power over me. It suddenly gave me back the memories of Maman that I had lost the memory of her voice"" February 1906. This fateful moment acted on Proust like a pernicious madeleine at once a sensory reminiscence and an acute awareness of his loss. He would soon begin writing In Search of Lost Time to conjure up this mother figure whose absence would remain unbearable. For the time being Proust is busy writing a series of Pastiches for Le Figaro ""which were in reality only a penultimate detour before writing La Recherche"" George D. Painter. One of these Pastiches dealt with the swindle perpetrated on the president of De Beers in which Proust had invested. Imagining himself already ruined he mentions these unfortunate circumstances in capital letters: ""HAVE I REPORTED MY FINANCIAL DESASTERS TO YOU OVER THE TELEPHONE ."" Overwhelmed by ailments he is also plagued by one of his many asthma attacks ""provoked or exasperated by these terrible fogs"" forcing him into reclusion and even silence: ""telephoning is very dangerous for me. And I'm also very tired when it comes to writing"".   The recipient Mme Catusse was a friend of Proust's mother and became an invaluable support to the writer. Proust's prolific correspondence with the woman Ghislain de Diesbach had dubbed the writer's Notre-Dame-des-Corvées represents an inexhaustible resource of insights into his secret life and fears. Proust had called her in a panic during an aphasia attack suffered by his mother shortly before her death. As he became increasingly isolated after moving into 102 boulevard Haussmann the previous year Proust sought her help in many matters including the purchase of numerous gifts: ""I would have liked to ask you if you had by any chance seen anything suitable for the Straus although I always dislike coinciding with New Year's Day"". This sentiment would inspire a passage in The Captive castigating those same ""New Year's Day presents"" given to Madame Verdurin: ""those singular and superfluous objects which still appear to have been just taken from the box in which they were offered and remain for ever what they were at first"" The Captive C.K. Scott Moncrieff's Translation Edited and Annotated by William C. Carter Yale University Press 2023 p. 308. Known for his frenzied displays of prodigality Proust overcomes his aversion to these occasional gifts. The smallest favor to the writer gave rise to extravagant expenses. Lawyer Emile Straus had probably helped the writer sort out his inheritance affairs: ""I FEEL THAT THE NUMEROUS SERVICES PROVIDED TO ME BY MR. STRAUS CANNOT REMAIN WITHOUT THANKS since I believe he would not accept a fee. If you happened to have seen something very pretty in any genre or any period between 100 and 300 fr. I would gladly take it."" A precious demo unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎". et voici que Jacques Blanche vient de s'y mettre - quinze ans trop tard ! Quel dommage qu'il ne m'ait pas consulté sur l'institut. Je l'aurais trouvé car mon génie à moi il ne faut pas le défier. Dominique jugé par Jacquot. "" • Immodest autograph letter signed by Robert de Montesquiou to Henri Lapauze concerning his latest work‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1911. Fine. S. n. s. l. 16 mai 1911 31 x 19.50 cm 3 feuilles Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 56 lines written in black ink on three sheets addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze notably mentioning a work by Ingres in his possession also thanking his correspondent for his always lucid and benevolent critiques regarding him. ""16 mai 911 Cher ami merci pour le magnifique volume au sujet duquel je me félicite sans trop insister. que votre catégorique réponse de l'autre jour sur la non-participation des non-contemporains à votre index me permette de n'avoir pas à vous adresser le beau reproche que j'avais préparé non sur ""Phidias absent"" puisqu'il y est. mais sur moi-même oublié. Quand donc vous en serez à l'index en vie je suis bien sûr que dans votre équité non moins que dans votre estime méritée vous croirez justement devoir faire une part à l'homme qui a publié il y a quinze années cet essai qu'il juge mui-même aujourd'hui insuffisamment respectueux à l'heure où les jeunes gens ont trouvé ce titre pour Ingres ""un maître sans génie"". Tout de même je ne doute pas que sous l'enveloppe insuffisamment libérée du style n'oubliez pas qu'il y a quinze ans la documentation ne vous semble assez forte et le jugement assez expressif pour un temps où vous ne nous aviez pas facilité la chose avec tant de révélations qui sont votre gloire. Je le répète mon cher Lapauze le mot ne me semble pas trop fort pour l'admirable monument élevé par vous au génie des génies dans votre ouvrage si noblement animé mieux que de la ferveur d'un compatriote d'un concitoyen disons le si joli titre disons d'un ""pays"". Votre lecteur et ami Robert de Montesquiou. et voici que Jacques Blanche vient de s'y mettre - quinze ans trop tard ! Quel dommage qu'il ne m'ait pas consulté sur l'institut. Je l'aurais trouvé car mon génie à moi il ne faut pas le défier. Dominique jugé par Jacquot. "" ""16 May 911 Dear friend thank you for the magnificent volume about which I congratulate myself without insisting too much. that your categorical response the other day on the non-participation of non-contemporaries in your index allows me not to have to address to you the fine reproach I had prepared not about 'Phidias absent' since he is there. but about myself forgotten. When therefore you get to the index of the living I am quite sure that in your equity no less than in your deserved esteem you will believe justly that you should make a place for the man who published fifteen years ago this essay which he himself judges today insufficiently respectful at a time when young people have found this title for Ingres 'a master without genius'. All the same I do not doubt that under the insufficiently liberated envelope of style don't forget that it was fifteen years ago the documentation will seem strong enough to you and the judgment expressive enough for a time when you had not made things easy for us with so many revelations which are your glory. I repeat my dear Lapauze the word does not seem too strong to me for the admirable monument erected by you to the genius of geniuses in your work so nobly animated better than with the fervor of a compatriot of a fellow citizen let us say the lovely title let us say of a 'countryman'. Your reader and friend Robert de Montesquiou. and here Jacques Blanche has just started on it - fifteen years too late! What a pity he didn't consult me about the institute. I would have found it for my genius one must not defy it. Dominique judged by Jacquot."" Fold marks inherent to postal delivery. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou à propos d'un dessin qu'il tient à la disposition de son correspondant‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1906. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. 1906 12.50 x 20 cm une page Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 11 lines written in black ink addressed probably to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze. ""Neuilly 14 juin Cher monsieur & ami mon dessin est à votre disposition de préférence à partir du samedi 21. Je vous assure et de mes sentiments les meilleurs. RMontesquiou."" ""Neuilly June 14 Dear sir & friend my drawing is at your disposal preferably from Saturday the 21st onwards. I assure you of my best regards. RMontesquiou."" Folding traces inherent to the envelope Henri Lapauze has inscribed across the letter in blue pencil the word ""faire"" ""to do"". S. n. unknown‎

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‎BALTHUS‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Henriette Gomès‎

‎Chassy 1954. Fine. Chassy 4 Janvier 1954 21 x 27 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Balthus addressed to gallery owner Henriette Gomès. 7 lines envelope included. Cross folds inherent to mailing a small tear to left margin of the letter not touching text the ink having faded. ""Chassy mardi the r and d having smudged Ma petite Henriette je reçois ce papier mystérieux - si tu trouves un moment pourrais-tu voir de quoi il s'agit En toute hâte - Je t'embrasse et André. B."" ""My little Henriette I receive this mysterious paper - if you find a moment could you see what it's about In great haste - I embrace you and André. B."" ""During the summer of 1952 Balthus found a château in the Nièvre between Autun and Avallon which he decided to rent and where he settled in the spring of the following year. The means were provided by his dealers Henriette Gomès Pierre Matisse and with them a collective of collectors including Maurice Rheims Alix de Rotschild and Claude Hersent. They paid him a pension in exchange for his latest paintings which they divided among themselves. The château was severely deteriorated and Balthus lived there modestly in continual restoration work. He had for company to help him settle in and ensure a presence when he went to Paris the poet Léna Leclercq met through Giacometti. The latter remained until spring 1955. Meanwhile Balthus had begun a love affair with his niece by marriage Frédérique Tison daughter from a previous union of his brother Pierre's wife."" Fondation Balthus unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou évoquant la voix métallique de son bienveillant correspondant‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1908. Fine. S. n. s. l. 13 juin 1908 24.50 x 17 cm une page Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 37 lines written in black ink addressed probably to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze. ""Neuilly Mon cher ami laissez-moi vous donner ce beau nom. C'est avec une vive et charmante émotion que je lis les belles et ""braves"" louanges dont vous voulez bien honorer ma personne et mon oeuvre. Il me plaît de penser que votre précieux éloge résulte d'une collaboration doublement sympathique et dans laquelle auprès de votre timbre métallique résonne l'accent le plus doux de l'aimable femme dont le talent m'était connu mais dont la première minute de causerie m'a révélé la compréhension et le sentiment. En attendant de vous le redire de vive voix merci donc à vous deux et de votre bien affectionné Robert de Montesquiou."" ""My dear friend allow me to give you this beautiful name. It is with a lively and charming emotion that I read the beautiful and ""brave"" praises with which you are pleased to honor my person and my work. I am pleased to think that your precious praise results from a doubly sympathetic collaboration and in which alongside your metallic tone resonates the sweetest accent of the amiable woman whose talent was known to me but whose first minute of conversation revealed to me her understanding and feeling. While waiting to tell you this again in person thank you therefore to both of you and from your very affectionate Robert de Montesquiou."" Fold marks inherent to posting. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à un critique littéraire à qui il reproche de ne pas vouloir évoquer son dernier livre par trop réactionnaire et aristocratique : "" L'aristocratie ce n'est tout de même pas madame Moore madame Porgès et Mam ""zell"" Gutman ; pas plus que la littérature n'est Mam ""zell"" Vacaresco et Monsieur de Pomairols. A un borgne bien intentionné qui me disait : ""vous attaquez le monde ! "". j'ai répondu : ""Pardon ! je range le salon de ma grand-mère""‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1911. Fine. S. n. s. l. 1911 27 x 21 cm 6 feuillets recto Signed autograph letter from the dandy count 68 lines written in black ink on six recto leaves probably addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze to whom he almost orders him to review his latest work in one of his upcoming chronicles. The proud Robert de Montesquiou also evokes with complete immodesty his intellectual height and depth qualities cruelly lacking in some of his contemporaries: ""Cher ami avec plaisir je consens à faire partie de votre comité avec d'autant plus de plaisir que sans le vouloir ou peut-être intentionnellement je préfère le croire vous donnez raison à mon dernier livre. Voir page 143 : ""nulle ne serait mieux qualifiée pour ce titre de Présidente. On n'en saurait trouver de plus affable"". Oui cher ami j'en profite pour vous le redire sans plaisanterie - aussi bien que sans amertume vous vous êtes trop de fois montré efficacement sympathique pour que j'en perde si vite ni même jamais le souvenir. - vraiment je ne suis pas du tout de votre avis sur l'impossibilité de parler de mon dernier livre dans votre chronique. Je suis même de l'avis entièrement contraire. D'abord je ne voudrais pas si j'étais critique littéraire qu'il fût dit un jour qu'un tel livre a paru vous savez que je ne suis pas modeste sans que j'en ai fait mention d'une manière ou de l'autre. En outre c'est trop lui donner raison que d'en agir ainsi. Vous voyez que si je suis modeste je ne suis pas moins juste. Oui à votre place j'aurais fait la part de l'auteur et celle du lecteur même récalcitrant comme l'ont fait Robin dans le Herald et Glaser dans le Figaro comme l'ont fait et le feront d'autres. - Quant au bel article de Lucien Daudet dans le Gil Blas je pense que vous l'avez lu. Des personnes d'esprit et d'art comme vous deux ne peuvent se méprendre sur le côté réactionnaire et aristocratique d'un tel écrit dans la bonne acception de ces deux qualificatifs. L'aristocratie ce n'est tout de même pas madame Moore madame Porgès et Mam ""zell"" Gutman ; pas plus que la littérature n'est Mam ""zell"" Vacaresco et Monsieur de Pomairols. A un borgne bien intentionné qui me disait : ""vous attaquez le monde ! "". j'ai répondu : ""Pardon ! je range le salon de ma grand-mère"" Aussi quand je lis dans quelque de vos jolis commentaires trop incertains à certains à propos de je ne sais quel plus ou moins vague bouquin que ""l'auteur"" manie supérieurement l'ironie je m'écris furieusement : ""Eh bien ! et moi ! ."" Alors pour me dédommager et un peu me venger je relis votre carte du 10 octobre : ""Envoyez moi tout de suite cher ami votre insupportable héroïne"". Henry et moi nous voulons la connaître l'aimer la faire aimer. A quoi pensez vous de nous mettre ""l'eau à la bouche pour retirer ensuite ce fruit. que nous espérons défendu."" De ce moment-là je me sens mieux. Et pour vous le prouvre cher ami et que je suis sincère je vous annonce mon intention de publier à l'occasion de votre exposition un nouvel essai sur Ingres lequel vous sera dédié si tel est votre bon plaisir comme il est le mien. Si vous connaissez un coin de revue qui s'accommode de ça faites-le moi savoir et recevez mes amitiés bien dessinées. Robert de Montesquiou Janv. 911."" ""Dear friend with pleasure I consent to be part of your committee with all the more pleasure since without wanting to or perhaps intentionally I prefer to believe so you vindicate my latest book. See page 143: 'none would be better qualified for this title of President. One could not find a more affable one.' Yes dear friend I take this opportunity to tell you again without jest - as well as without bitterness you have shown yourself efficiently sympathetic too many times for me to lose the memory of it so quickly or even ever. - truly I am not at all of your opinion on the impossibility of speaking about my latest book in your chronicle. I am even S. n. unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Henri Lapauze lui sollicitant un article consacré à son dernier ouvrage récemment paru‎

‎Paris: S. n. 1900. Fine. S. n. Paris s. d. circa 1910 23 x 18 cm un feuillet Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 27 lines written in violet ink addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""14 avenue Bosquet Cher monsieur et ami j'ai le plaisir de vous envoyer mon livre que je l'espère vous aimerez assez pour lui concéder la gracieuse faveur que je vous demande. Quelques lignes un alinéa en première page rappelant à vos lecteurs son apparition avec un bout de commentaire que vous tracerez je le sais obligeamment et savamment seront pour dédommager et peut-être récompenser le poète qui s'entête à chanter en ces époques troublée. Un compte-rendu de M. Perret m'a été promis mais il viendra en son temps que la politique peut retarder ; et votre bienveillant et incisif rappel agirait à cette heure fort élégamment et éloquemment sur les voyageurs au débotté et sur les parisiens en partance. Merci avant pendant après de votre sincère affectionné Robert de Montesquiou. 22 juin."" ""14 avenue Bosquet Dear sir and friend I have the pleasure of sending you my book which I hope you will like enough to grant it the gracious favor I ask of you. A few lines a paragraph on the first page reminding your readers of its appearance with a bit of commentary that you will write I know obligingly and learnedly will compensate and perhaps reward the poet who persists in singing in these troubled times. A review by M. Perret has been promised to me but it will come in its time which politics may delay; and your benevolent and incisive reminder would act at this hour most elegantly and eloquently on travelers upon arrival and on Parisians departing. Thank you before during after from your sincere affectionate Robert de Montesquiou. June 22."" Small pinhole marks that held the two sheets together. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Carte-lettre autographe signée adressée à Henri Lapauze lui fixant un rendez-vous‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1898. Fine. S. n. s. l. 24 Octobre 1898 11 x 14 cm une feuille Autograph postcard signed by the dandy count 13 lines written in black ink addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""Dear sir I offer you Thursday morning half past eleven between many trunks! to come see me and show La Tour according to the desire you expressed to me. If 2:30 would suit you better would you kindly let me know and receive my friendship. Count Robert de Montesquiou 24 Oct. 14 avenue Bosquet."" S. n. unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou adressée à Henri Lapauze‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1920. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. circa 1920 25.50 x 20 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 27 lines written in blue ink addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""Neuilly Dear friend thank you for your note. I am going to see Coppée again. When you speak again you of my book you will please me of course if this accords with your views first by recalling that it is dedicated to Barrès then by observing if not admiring what is rare in the spectacle shall we say the example given by an artist who has proven himself and publishes his eleventh volume books in which there are things without ever having cared about anything other than the esteem of those who please him; by a man who below this list of works which is requested of him by a recent questionnaire then encountering the word rewards followed by a question mark has the happiness and perhaps the honor of having to leave this useless line blank or at least to populate it with this word from Flaubert: ""One must be quite modest to be able to be honored"" Your proud friend RMontesquiou. 10 June."" Traces of folds inherent to the envelope. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Henri Lapauze et concernant la réédition de l'un de ses ouvrages‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1908. Fine. S. n. s. l. 4 février 1908 21.50 x 28 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 22 lines written in black ink addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""Neuilly Indeed dear friend you would give me great pleasure by continuing to point out to your readers the faithfulness of word & the good conduct of this edition which encounters more and more the serious reception to which I hope it is entitled by showing more clearly what those titles that have become famous contained a little confidence and which want to deserve to be so after a more mature examination. And if you insist on the poor passiflora of which your wife speaks to me so eloquently and elegantly in a letter that would be a very beautiful 'art criticism' this will delight at the same time a luminous shadow and my chiaroscuro. Robert de M. 4 February 08."" Fold marks inherent to envelope placement. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎"Ne soyez pas effrayé par l'importance physique de ce document elle ne vient que de la grosseur des caractères. L'étendue n'en demeure pas moins normale."" • Autograph letter signed by Robert de Montesquiou addressed to Henri Lapauze about the republication of one of his works‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1907. Fine. S. n. s. l. 21 mai 1907 25.50 x 20 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 22 lines written in pencil addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze: ""Neuilly Cher ami voici ce que je vous envoie d'accord avec Monsieur Schmoll qui m'en a téléphoné ce matin. Ne soyez pas effrayé par l'importance physique de ce document elle ne vient que de la grosseur des caractères. L'étendue n'en demeure pas moins normale. J'ajoute que les pièces ont été choisies parmi les transformées et remaniées comme elles le sont d'ailleurs à peu près toutes. Il serait désirable que cette publication eut lieu demain pour ne pas retarder l'apparition du volume. Dans ce cas j'enverrais ce soir pour la correction. La place sera celle que vous voudrez pourvu que ce soit en première page ou ""cheval"" - Votre femme m'a écrit une lettre délicieuse son éloge coule de source. Bien à vous deux. R. Montesquiou 21 mai 07."" Avec la mine de son crayon Robert de Montesquiou a trop appuyé en traçant un trait en dessous de son patronyme ce qui a occasionné un petit trou. ""Neuilly Dear friend here is what I am sending you in agreement with Monsieur Schmoll who telephoned me about it this morning. Do not be frightened by the physical importance of this document it only comes from the size of the characters. The extent nonetheless remains normal. I add that the pieces have been chosen among the transformed and reworked as they are moreover almost all of them. It would be desirable that this publication take place tomorrow so as not to delay the appearance of the volume. In this case I would send this evening for correction. The placement will be whatever you wish provided it is on the front page or ""cheval"" - Your wife wrote me a delightful letter her praise flows naturally. Best to you both. R. Montesquiou May 21st 07."" With the lead of his pencil Robert de Montesquiou pressed too hard while drawing a line under his surname which caused a small hole. Fold marks inherent to being placed in an envelope. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Camille MAUCLAIR‎

‎"M. Paul Adam nous montre l'éternel symbole de Prométhée de l'intelligence créatrice enchaîné entre la Force et la Violence."" • Autograph manuscript signed entitled ""La force et la destruction"" about the novel ""La force"" by Paul Adam which has just been published‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1899. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. 1899 15 x 19.50 cm 8 feuillets Autograph manuscript signed entitled ""La force et la destruction"" about Paul Adam's novel La Force which has just been published 8 leaves in blue ink with some corrections. The article was certainly published in the Revue Blanche. In this laudatory critique of the novel La Force published by Paul Ollendorff: "". c'est un très grand poème épique."" "". it is a very great epic poem."" as well as of Paul Adam's already prolific work: ""Un écrivain qui à trente-cinq ans avant ce livre en a signé vingt-trois autres dont aucun n'est médiocre et dont dix sont de premier ordre."" "". un inépuisable agitateur d'idées d'aperçus de rêves et de beautés."" ""A writer who at thirty-five before this book had signed twenty-three others none of which is mediocre and ten of which are first-rate."" "". an inexhaustible agitator of ideas insights dreams and beauties."" Camille Mauclair demonstrates to the readers of the Revue Blanche of socialist and anarchist allegiance that Paul Adam is one of them: ""Mais le peuple ne sait peut-être pas combien ce romancier cet artiste de style est près de lui dévoué à sa cause véritablement son apôtre en face de la bourgeoisie. c'est en luttant de front contre les iniquités les laideurs et les égoïsmes de la classe possédante que M. Adam a imposé son nom."" ""But the people perhaps do not know how close this novelist this artist of style is to them devoted to their cause truly their apostle in the face of the bourgeoisie. it is by fighting head-on against the iniquities ugliness and selfishness of the possessing class that Mr. Adam has established his name."" Despite success and unlike many of his fellow poets and novelists Paul Adam has not gone astray: "". un mandarin des lettres refugié dans des rêves compliqués et indifférents à l'époque aux souffrances et aux injustices."" "". les autres décadents égotistes ou symbolistes. se réfugiaient prudemment dans la tour d'ivoire ou dans les honteux culte du moi en attendant l'académisme ou le suffrage des snobs."" "". a literary mandarin taking refuge in complicated dreams and indifferent to the times to suffering and injustices."" "". the other decadents egoists or symbolists. prudently took refuge in the ivory tower or in the shameful cult of the self awaiting academicism or the approval of snobs."" and is animated by an acute political and social consciousness: "". sa voix fut une des plus éloquentes parmi celles qui saluèrent dans l'anarchisme les beaux côtés de sa morale civique l'idéal internationaliste la haine des castes le relèvement de l'individu considéré comme unité et commune mesure de la société."" "". Au moment où la panique multipliait autant les dénonciateurs que les poltrons M. Paul Adam signa résolument un magnifique éloge de Ravachol.""' "". his voice was one of the most eloquent among those who greeted in anarchism the beautiful aspects of its civic morality the internationalist ideal the hatred of castes the elevation of the individual considered as unit and common measure of society."" "". At the moment when panic multiplied denouncers as much as cowards Mr. Paul Adam resolutely signed a magnificent eulogy of Ravachol.""' Finally Camille Mauclair precisely analyzes the significance of ""La force"": Avec une frappante justesse Paul Adam oppose la force véritable la hauteur d'esprit à la suprématie de l'épée."" ""M. Paul Adam nous montre l'éternel symbole de Prométhée de l'intelligence créatrice enchaîné entre la Force et la Violence."" "". étant adversaire du chauvinisme et du militarisme. de mettre en lumière tous leurs motifs de gloire pour mieux en montrer l'écoeurant non-sens la nullité la débilité devant la vie pensante et l'action féconde."" ""With striking accuracy Paul Adam opposes true force elevation of spirit to the supremacy of the sword."" ""Mr. Paul Adam shows us the eternal symbol of S. n. unknown‎

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‎RAIMU‎

‎". L'arlésienne ne pourra pas se faire parce que monsieur gendre Prouvost et cie sont des couillons. Et des gens sans aucune descisions"" • Virulent signed autograph letter addressed to his great friend Carlo Rim about an aborted film project‎

‎Paris: S. n. 1941. Fine. S. n. Paris 13 juin 1941 14 x 19.50 cm trois feuilles recto-verso Autograph letter dated June 13th Carlo Rim having specified in pencil at the head of the first leaf 1941 and signed by Raimu addressed to his great friend Carlo Rim 98 lines in black ink on three leaves recto-verso. Folds inherent to mailing. Raimu rails against the incapacity and indecision of those responsible for a film project entitled l'Arlésienne quite a symbol! of which Carlo Rim was part: ""L'arlésienne ne pourra pas se faire parce que monsieur gendre Prouvost et cie sont des couillons. Et des gens sans aucune descisions. Donc affaire morte."" ""l'Arlésienne cannot be made because monsieur son-in-law Prouvost and company are fools. And people without any decisions. So the matter is dead."" "". tous les mois il change d'idées et dieu sait s'il en a mais tout cela se termine par des idées. jamais il ne tournera pas plus le tien que celui des autres il a peut-être de l'argent mais il ne veut pas le sortir. Genre Prouvost."" "". every month he changes his mind and God knows he has ideas but all this ends with ideas. he will never shoot yours any more than those of others he may have money but he doesn't want to spend it. That's Prouvost for you."" Raimu ever so irascible does not calm down and drowns his friend's last hopes about the forthcoming realization of l'Arlésienne: ""Mon vieux Carlo à l'heure actuelle les deux pauvres studios de Nice sont pris jusqu'à fin septembre par des gens qui eux prennent les descisions et qui verse de l'argent. donc tu vois mon pauvre vieux ce sont tous des bonimenteurs Honnebelle - Prouvost. des gens plein aux as mais ils ne veulent pas les sortir."" ""My dear Carlo at present the two poor studios in Nice are booked until the end of September by people who do make decisions and who put up money. so you see my poor friend they are all smooth talkers Honnebelle - Prouvost. people loaded with money but they don't want to spend it."" "". il trouvera 100 excuses pour ne pas tourner et elles lui seront faciles."" "". he will find 100 excuses not to shoot and they will come easily to him.""and ends his epistolary diatribe with this glacial criticism:""Mon Carlo il n'y a plus rien à faire en province que de la barraque et à écarter les marchands de boniments. because que depuis la fille du puisatier je n'ai entendu que des bobards. En plus il faudrait faire des films à la noix."" ""My Carlo there is nothing left to do in the provinces but fairground shows and to ward off the peddlers of smooth talk. because since la fille du puisatier I have heard nothing but tall tales. Plus we would have to make trashy films."" Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer author notably of ""Ma belle Marseille"" a caricaturist a filmmaker: ""Justin de Marseille"" ""L'armoire volante"" ""La maison Bonnadieu"" and was notably the friend of Fernandel Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Georges AURIC‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à son ami Carlo Rim à propos notamment de la reprise d'Iphigénie en Tauride de Christoph Willibald Gluck‎

‎Paris: S. n. 1965. Fine. S. n. Paris 17 octobre 1965 14 x 19.50 cm une feuille Autograph letter dated and signed by Georges Auric addressed to his friend Carlo Rim 23 lines in blue ink on letterhead of the Réunion des théâtres lyriques nationaux et du théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris in which he asks for his friend's indulgence as he is overwhelmed with work: ""Pardonne-moi si je ne t'ai pas répondu encore : tu peux imaginer sans trop de peine ce qu'est devenue mon existence ! . je viens d'avoir à préparer la reprise d'Iphigénie en Tauride - opéra des plus nobles et que ""notre"" public n'avait pas eu l'occasion d'écouter depuis 1931 "" ""Forgive me if I haven't answered you yet: you can imagine without too much trouble what my existence has become! . I have just had to prepare the revival of Iphigénie en Tauride - one of the noblest operas and one that ""our"" public has not had the opportunity to hear since 1931""; a revival in which Georges Auric places great hope: "". En tout cas je veux espérer que nous dépasserons les deux répétitions de 1931. "". In any case I want to hope that we will exceed the two performances of 1931."" He also rejoices in the diversity of projects that occupy him thus transcending styles and periods: ""Glück Iphigénie : nous sommes fichtrement loin de Vincent Scotto. Mais je franchis allégrement siècles et styles pour te dire combien je suis heureux de me trouver dans ce ""comité d'honneur"" associé aux respectables et déjà vieux amis dont tu connais les noms ! "" ""Gluck Iphigénie: we are damn far from Vincent Scotto. But I cheerfully leap across centuries and styles to tell you how happy I am to find myself in this 'honorary committee' associated with the respectable and already old friends whose names you know!"" Folds inherent to mailing. Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer author notably of ""Ma belle Marseille"" a caricaturist a filmmaker: ""Justin de Marseille"" ""L'armoire volante"" ""La maison Bonnadieu"" and was notably the friend of Fernandel Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Julien GRACQ‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Julien Gracq adressée au journaliste Jean-Claude Lamy à propos d'un article accompagné de photographies : ""Rappelez vous notre conversation : une seule photo pour illustrer votre texte j'aurais préféré"" aucune ! malgré le talent très grand de Robert Doisneau""‎

‎Paris 1985. Fine. Paris 24 octobre 1985 14.50 x 10.50 cm quatre feuilles une enveloppe Autograph letter signed on a Bristol card by Julien Gracq 15 lines in black ink addressed to journalist Jean-Claude Lamy regarding the text of an article for which he gives his approval and an album of photographs concerning another writer. Apart from a few modifications he intends to make notably on the fact of not being photographed even by Robert Doisneau he authorizes the publication of this interview. We include the envelope addressed by Julien Gracq from his Parisian home. We also include the text of three pages of the article with corrections and crossings-out by Jean-Claude Lamy and four modifications and corrections in Julien Gracq's hand. A few letters have smudged without consequence a handsome copy. ""Paris 24 octobre Cher monsieur. Merci de m'avoir soumis le texte que je vous retourne : il correspond en gros aux propos tenus et je ne vois à vous soumettre que deux ou trois formulations un peu différentes. Je regarde avec plaisir les photos de l'album que vous l'aimable pensée de m'adresser : il s'agit là d'un écrivain qui ne m'a jamais laissé indifférent. Rappelez vous notre conversation : une seule photo pour illustrer votre texte j'aurais préféré"" aucune ! malgré le talent très grand de Robert Doisneau Avec mon bon souvenir. J. Gracq."" ""Paris 24 October Dear sir. Thank you for submitting the text which I return to you: it corresponds roughly to the remarks made and I see only two or three slightly different formulations to submit to you. I look with pleasure at the photos in the album which you had the kind thought to send me: this concerns a writer who has never left me indifferent. Remember our conversation: only one photo to illustrate your text I would have preferred none! despite Robert Doisneau's very great talent With my kind regards. J. Gracq."" unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou adressée à son bibliographe‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1921. Fine. S. n. s. l. 26 octobre 1921 18 x 21 cm une page Autograph letter signed on bristol board by the dandy count 17 lines written in black ink probably addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze. ""Cher monsieur et ami je vous recommande ma bibliographie que j'ai hâte de lire de votre main qui voudra joindre à la bonne grâce de l'écrire celle de me l'adresser. Je compte aussi sur vous pour recommander le livre à M. Paul Perret à qui j'ai demandé un entretien d'accord avec M. Meyer - et dont j'attend la réponse. Merci d'avance et mes meilleurs souvenirs. Cte R. de Montesquiou. 23 novembre."" ""Dear sir and friend I recommend to you my bibliography which I am eager to read from your hand which will wish to add to the good grace of writing it that of addressing it to me. I also count on you to recommend the book to M. Paul Perret to whom I have requested an interview in agreement with M. Meyer - and from whom I await the response. Thanks in advance and my best regards. Count R. de Montesquiou. 23 November."" S. n. unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou remerciant son bienveillant correspondant‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1921. Fine. S. n. s. l. 26 octobre 1921 18 x 21 cm une page Grateful autograph letter dated and signed by the dandy count 14 lines written in blue ink probably addressed to his friend the critic Henri Lapauze. ""Mon cher ami ne doutez pas que je ne sache dans cet aimable spirituel et bienveillant article faire la part du critique intelligent qui l'a rédigé et celle du fidèle ami qui l'a inspiré. L'acte de donation en faveur de votre musée vous portera mon remerciement. La statuette est de cire. je l'espère cependant durable et l'avalanche de roses que vient décrire si poétiquement Alexandre lui promet une compagnie délicate elle aussi plus précieuse d'être fragile. Votre RMontesquiou. 26 Octobre 1921."" ""My dear friend do not doubt that I know how in this amiable witty and benevolent article to distinguish between the part of the intelligent critic who wrote it and that of the faithful friend who inspired it. The deed of donation in favor of your museum will bear my thanks. The statuette is made of wax. I hope however that it will be durable and the avalanche of roses which Alexandre describes so poetically promises it delicate company also more precious for being fragile. Yours RMontesquiou. 26 October 1921."" Fold marks inherent to envelope insertion three letters having slightly smudged. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Erik ORSENNA‎

‎Bristol manuscrit signé Erik A/O dans lequel il félicite sa correspondante‎

‎Paris: Seuil 1990. Fine. Seuil Paris s. d. circa 1990 15 x 10.50 cm une feuille une enveloppe Handwritten Bristol paper on letterhead of the Presidency of the Republic and under the true patronyme of Erik Orsenna 5 lines in black ink addressed to Nadine Nimier wife and widow of Roger Nimier. Envelope included. ""Bravo pour votre N°III. Quand venez-vous me voir 261 51 00. A bientôt Erik A/O."" ""Congratulations on your issue III. When are you coming to see me 261 51 00. See you soon Erik A/O."" The letters b and i and bientôt having smudged. Seuil unknown‎

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‎BALTHUS‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Henriette Gomès‎

‎Rome Rome 1961. Fine. Rome Rome s. d. circa 1961 22 x 27.50 cm une page sur un feuillet Signed autograph letter from Balthus addressed to gallerist Henriette Gomès. One page written in black ink on letterhead of the Académie de France in Rome of which Balthus was appointed director by André Malraux in 1961 13 lines. Transverse folds inherent to mailing two small tears in left and right margins of the letter not touching the text pin marks in upper left margin of the letter the ink of certain words having faded. ""Ma petite Henriette imossible de me souvenir de l'adresse de Claude Hersent ni de celle de Lefebvre dont je ne trouve plus l'enveloppe. C'est donc à toi que j'envoie le papier ci-joint à remettre au personnage en question. - Quant aux dégats subis par mon tableau une fois la toile montée il n'y parait plus. Donc inutile de se lancer dans des correspondances à n'en plus finir. Je t'embrasse. B."" ""My dear little Henriette / impossible to remember Claude Hersent's address or that of Lefebvre whose envelope I can no longer find. So it's to you that I'm sending the enclosed paper to give to the person in question. - As for the damage suffered by my painting once the canvas is mounted it no longer shows. So no need to launch into endless correspondence. I embrace you. B."" ""During the summer of 1952 Balthus found a château in the Nièvre between Autun and Avallon which he decided to rent and where he settled in the spring of the following year. The means were provided by his dealers Henriette Gomès Pierre Matisse and with them a group of collectors including Maurice Rheims Alix de Rothschild and Claude Hersent. They paid him a pension in exchange for his latest paintings which they divided among themselves. The château was severely deteriorated and Balthus lived there modestly in continual restoration work. He had for company to help him settle in and ensure a presence when he went to Paris the poet Léna Leclercq met through Giacometti. She remained until spring 1955. Meanwhile Balthus had begun a love affair with his niece by marriage Frédérique Tison daughter of a previous union of his brother Pierre's wife."" Fondation Balthus unknown‎

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‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎". Mais mon Mont-Blanc décrit par vous reprend ses proportions !."" • Autograph letter signed by Robert de Montesquiou‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1920. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. 1920 27.50 x 18 cm une page Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 18 lines written in black ink probably addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze thanking him for his vigilance and for having corrected an error concerning one of his texts. Traces of folding inherent to mailing light creases in the left margin of the letter. ""Neuilly Dear friend thank you for your vigilant benevolence. I appreciate it all the more as the same newspaper which brought me a new flood of it represented my client to me elsewhere in the form of a very vast Perrichon! .But my Mont-Blanc described by you regains its proportions! All is in order and I am your affectionate. Robert de M. 27 Nov."" S. n. unknown‎

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‎Franz MARC‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à sa mère Sophie Maurice‎

‎1915. Fine. 19 août 1915 22.20 x 28.60 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet 19 August 1915 222x286cm 2 pages on a leaf. Autograph letter in German signed by the painter Franz Marc to his mother Sophie Marc née Maurice; two pages in black ink. Trace of horizontal and vertical fold. Unpublished letter. Not in the latest edition of his wartime correspondence Briefe aus dem Feld Norderstedt 2019. Lengthy unpublished letter from Franz Marc to his mother during the First World War written a few months before his death in Verdun. In the horror of the conflict the future martyr of German expressionism recalls childhood images and tells horse stories from the front. Stationed on the Alsace front the famed animal painter recounts a hilarious wild boar hunt improvised during a horseback ride reminding him of an illustrated childhood tale: The Three Jovial Hunstmen by Randolph Caldecott 1880. Franz Marc reveals here an inspiration for his famous horses which gave their name to the “Blaue Reiter” movement created in 1911 with Wassily Kandinsky. The horses in Caldecott's Huntsmen resemble Franz Marc's paintings from 1905-1910. This anecdote is also related to “hunting horses” sketched on the front and a postcard sketch of the same “Jagende Pferde” sent to the poet Else Laske-Schüler in September 1915. The letter gives a glimpse of Franz Marc's daily life on the front. By a cruel irony of fate he fought in the native region of his mother Sophie Marc née Maurice born in 1847 in the Alsatian village of Guebwiller. When war broke out in August 1914 he joined the army hoping for a renewal of Europe like many fellow artists and intellectuals. Due to the circumstances of the war the painter wrote his letter in German and not in French as he was accustomed to do in his correspondence with his mother. His mother's influence was decisive in his aesthetic and spiritual approach: Marc's tireless quest for “purity” inherited from his Calvinist upbringing eventually led him to abstraction already present in his sketches as he wrote this letter. He gives news of a future promotion thanks his mother for sending him food and fills the page with the story of his miraculous hunt: “I have one more amusing story to tell: as I was riding out at dawn before breakfast I suddenly noticed a young boar a wild boar beside me in a ditch. I immediately called my fellow riders; he was surrounded – I already felt sorry for the poor animal but the pity came too late! – Two of them jumped in one grabbed him by the ears the other poked him and the roast for the steward's table was retrieved. A most comical scene ensued: We ordered the youngest soldier to go home with the boar and got him on horseback; but no sooner did the horse feel the boar on his back horses are very afraid of boars than he reared up and threw the rider and the pig into a great arc. Fortunately nothing happened and the embarrassed rider had to walk the boar back then the horse really reared up as soon as he was approached. A real amateur rider! I was thinking of Dad's old English picture book: the jovial huntsman!” With this light-hearted anecdote the painter reveals a source of inspiration still unknown to critics and historians. The Three Jovial Huntsmen certainly influenced the young Franz Marc whose own horses painted in the 1910s including the Weidende Pferde I Lenbachhaus Munich are unmistakably marked by Caldecott's British style. In the following years he added to this subject his kaleidoscopic touch and his emblematic blue red and yellow colors charged with spiritual symbolism. Franz Marc also painted blue wild boars in 1913 Museum Ludwig Cologne. The story of this hunt is also completely new since he asked his mother to tell it to his wife Maria to avoid writing a second letter “it's long: to tell the same thing twice”. This anecdote about hunting and rearing horses can be directly linked to a sketch on a postcard dated the following month entitled “jagen unknown‎

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‎Leo MALET - Bruno de MONES‎

‎Lettre tapuscrite signée de Léo Malet à son ami le photographe Bruno de Monès‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. 1983. Fine. S. n. s. l. • Paris 1983 21 x 29.50 cm une feuille Typed letter dated June 29 1983 signed by Léo Malet to photographer Bruno de Monès in which the writer thanks his photographer: "". multipliant autour de moi les images de ma ""petite chérie"" que j'éprouve le besoin de vous envoyer encore un bouquin."" "". multiplying around me the images of my 'little darling' that I feel the need to send you another book."" and takes the liberty of asking him for information about a glue and black paper he uses to create his collages often of pornographic inspiration. At the end of the typed letter on letterhead from his Châtillon address Léo Malet adds a handwritten ""Bien à vous. Léon Malet."" ""Yours truly. Léon Malet."" Central fold marks inherent to mailing. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Guillaume APOLLINAIRE‎

‎« Je crois qu'on ne peut parler d'une école que si elle existe et non de ce qu'elle pourrait être si elle existait » • Unpublished signed autograph postcard addressed to Marcel Mayer‎

‎Paris 1913. Fine. Paris 1913 13.30 x 21 cm une carte Unpublished autograph signed postcard by Guillaume Apollinaire addressed to the Dijon art historian Marcel Mayer. Two pages written in black ink on a photographic postcard depicting the courtyard of the Louvre. Charming letter praising the attachment to their roots of the "".fameux Flamands-Espagnols Hollandais et Bourguignons que j'admire tant"" ""famous Flemish-Spanish Dutch and Burgundians whom I admire so much"" and informing his correspondent of the writing and forthcoming publication of a ""petit livre sur Rude"" ""little book on Rude"" that Guillaume Apollinaire will not fail to send him. Fine autograph signature with the autograph address of 202 Boulevard Saint-Germain. unknown‎

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