‎Autographes‎

‎Stephane MALLARME‎

‎"Que je suis aux regrets d'avoir manqué votre aimable visite."" • Autograph business card addressed to Alidor Delzant‎

‎Paris: S. n. 1893. Fine. S. n. Paris 16 mars 1893 10.40 x 6.30 cm une carte de visite et son enveloppe Visiting card with autograph signature by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant. With envelope. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""Que je suis aux regrets d'avoir manqué votre aimable visite ; à l'une de mes premières sorties après une indisposition ! et j'en veux au beau temps qui me tenta dehors."" ""How I regret having missed your kind visit; during one of my first outings after an indisposition! and I blame the fine weather that tempted me outside."" S. n. unknown‎

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‎Nicolas-Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à la citoyenne Fontaine‎

‎1797. Fine. An exceedingly rare letter from Restif: « Les événemens du 18 fructidor' m'ont rendu la vie . en affligeant mon cœur » 30 fructidor 1797 An V 16 septembre 1897 18.50 x 21.30 cm 3 pages sur un double feuillet Extremely rare autograph letter signed « Restif Labretone » addressed to Citoyenne Fontaine. Three pages written in black ink on a double sheet of laid paper. Remains of a wax seal folds inherent to mailing.  This letter was published with some inaccuracies in Lettres inédites de Restif de Labretone by V. Forest and É. Grimaud 1883. The Fontaine couple are merchants from Grenoble and Restif de la Bretonne began corresponding with them on March 15 1797. Important letter testifying to the completion of the publication of Restif's great autobiographical work: Monsieur Nicolas ou les Ressorts du Cœur Humain dévoilé. « I will have completed the Cœur humain Dévoilé within 15 days – I will prepare your package immediately to have it ready. » The first eight volumes of this great autobiographical work printed by Restif himself – a typesetter by trade – in his residence at 11 rue de la Bûcherie were entrusted to the « dishonest » bookseller Nicolas Bonneville who did not honor his debts to the writer. Besides health issues « I exchange my illnesses and do not cure them » Restif also shares with his correspondent his literary setbacks: « The Author of Nature will preserve a sincere friend for me to compensate for the scoundrels of the Institute and the perfidious Mercier ». Indeed the previous year the author learned with bitterness that he was not admitted to the National Institute and Louis-Sébastien Mercier who had praised him in his Tableau de Paris and supported his candidacy then turned away from him. To this sum of misfortunes financial difficulties are added. Penniless and living on meager state pensions he maintains all his support for the Republic: « By what fatality do I never see the views of the rulers who welcome me; or how do they not see at once that I am attached to the Revolution to the point that I still love it even when it beats me. » Restif profoundly anti-royalist wrote several pamphlets to this effect and had just added to the end of Monsieur Nicolas an apology for the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor Year V. However this date marks the end of the allowance granted to him by Lazare Carnot after his failure at the Institute: « You know the events of 18 Fructidor; I will not speak to you about them. They have given me back my life; but by afflicting both my heart and my gratitude. »   But Restif's great sorrow is the loss of his daughter Filette born from his adventure with Louise Allan whose paternity was revealed to him only late: « I am writing to you from bed weeping over my Filette who died 11 months and ten days ago . Filette was my daughter and Louise's whose soul and beauty she had. »   Autograph letters signed by Restif de La Bretonne that have survived to this day are extremely rare. unknown‎

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‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎"on passe des bachots à tout âge !"" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen‎

‎s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. • Klarskovgaard 28 octobre 1950 21 x 34 cm 1 pages sur un feuillet Partly unpublished autograph letter signed by ""your touchy LF"" Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. One page written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number ""563"" in Céline's hand in the upper left corner in red pencil. Transverse folds inherent to the mailing. This letter was very partially transcribed in the Année Céline 2005. Céline after days of suffering from the cold is delighted to announce to his friend that he has received heating: ""Le fourneau se pose en ce moment. Je ne sais pas si la maison y résistera l'on verra !"" ""The stove is being installed right now. I don't know if the house will withstand it we shall see!"" This letter also mentions his Swedish friend Ernst Bendz like him a doctor and writer: ""Benz sic vous cherche un La Bruyère en suédois - on passe des bachots à tout âge !"" ""Bendz is looking for a La Bruyère in Swedish for you - one takes exams at any age!"" In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement was confined in Denmark. It was in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrived at his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen's home in Klarskovgaard. The latter owned a large property by the Baltic Sea and invited the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the purge the writer was definitively condemned in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year of imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The Swedish Consul General in Paris Raoul Nordling intervened on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen the Danish Foreign Minister and managed to delay his extradition. On April 20 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtained Céline's amnesty as a ""severely disabled veteran of the Great War"" by presenting his file under the name of 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

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‎Stephane MALLARME‎

‎Quatrain autographe signé adressé à Alidor Delzant‎

‎Valvins 1890. Fine. Valvins 13 octobre 1890 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto et une enveloppe Autograph quatrain signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written in black ink on the verso of a card. Envelope included. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""Vous n'avez pas su nos / Exclamations : Qu'est-ce / Avant tant de pruneaux / Savourés dans leur caisse"" ""You did not know our / Exclamations: What is this / Before so many prunes / Savored in their box"" Amusing stanza of thanks for the sending of prunes. unknown‎

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‎Stephane MALLARME‎

‎"La délicate caisse était votre souhait d'accueil."" • Signed autograph card addressed to Gabrielle Delzant‎

‎Paris 1894. Fine. Paris 24 octobre 1894 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Gabrielle Delzant wife of his friend Alidor written on both sides in black ink. Envelope included. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""La délicate caisse était votre souhait d'accueil à notre rentrée avant-hier ; et moi qui me plaignais tant à ces dames qu'elles m'eussent privé des toutes dernières feuilles mortes voici qu'à un point de vue poétique différent ces pruneaux les remplacèrent aussitôt."" ""The delicate box was your welcoming wish upon our return the day before yesterday; and I who complained so much to these ladies that they had deprived me of the very last dead leaves here from a different poetic point of view these prunes replaced them at once."" unknown‎

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‎Boris VIAN‎

‎Manuscrit autographe inédit d'un projet de sketch de Boris Vian intitulé ""Deux heures de colles"" • Unpublished autograph manuscript of a sketch project by Boris Vian entitled ""Deux heures de colles""‎

‎1950. Fine. s. d. circa 1950 21 x 27 cm 8 pages sur 8 feuillets & 10 pages sur 10 feuillets Complete unpublished autograph manuscript of a sketch project by Boris Vian entitled ""Deux heures de colles"". Each bundle containing eight and ten sheets respectively is held together with a staple. The first written in different colored inks and featuring numerous crossings-out additions and small marginal drawings comprises two sheets of ideas for the sketch outline one sheet describing its structure and five sheets of text and stage directions. The second less corrected and entirely written in green ink is a final version of the text incorporating the structure and ideas from the first draft without preserving them in their entirety. In these notes never published nor performed the sketch takes place in a classroom where different teachers take turns delivering lessons in each of their subjects. The audience is supposed to form an assembly of unruly pupils and actively participate in the various activities imagined by Vian. The shameless teachers mistreat the pupils: ""vous êtes des khons de lamentables ratés . quelques interrogations auxquelles je vais procéder maintenant vont vous démontrer mieux qu'un long discours à quel point vous être abrutis."" ""you are fools pathetic failures . a few questions which I shall now proceed with will demonstrate to you better than a long speech just how stupid you are."" The text very humorous and remarkably modern recalls the genre of current ""talk shows"" and their cascades of gags and games. We thus find a large number of fanciful subjects designed to structure the different interventions: ""cours du supporter de match"" ""sports fan class"" ""cours de digest"" ""digest class"" ""cours d'optimisme bourgeois"" ""bourgeois optimism class"" ""cours de liberté"" ""freedom class"" ""cours de diffamation"" ""defamation class"" ""cours d'exploitation de psychanalyse"" ""psychoanalysis exploitation class"" etc. We perceive Vian's nostalgia for the past and his fascination with the future: ""Vous voyez 1900 avec 50 ans de recul avec vos yeux de 1950 mais pour les gens de l'an 2000 1950 sera aussi charmant que 1900 pour nous. Apprenez à voir votre époque avec les yeux de l'an 2000."" ""You see 1900 with 50 years' hindsight with your 1950 eyes but for people in the year 2000 1950 will be as charming as 1900 is for us. Learn to see your era through the eyes of the year 2000."" His love of cars also shows through in the staging of a ""type qui rentre par le fond de la scène dans un bruit effrayant avec sa traction une calandre ou un moteur sous le bras ."" ""fellow who enters from the back of the stage with a frightening noise with his Citroën a grille or engine under his arm ."" Visionary Vian This text is in any case imbued with ecological awareness: ""Le professeur insiste sur le gâchis qui caractérise la société actuelle et l'intérêt par conséquent d'un cours de récupération des produits inutilisés."" ""The teacher insists on the waste that characterizes current society and the interest consequently of a class on recovering unused products."" The brilliant inventor in any case envisages presenting a recycling ""machine"" ""machine"" to his audience. He also denounces under cover of humor the shortage of Parisian housing and its poor layout: ""on ne trouvait pas d'appartement à cause des collectionneurs d'appartements . Ce qui est difficile c'est de vivre dans les appartements qu'on vous propose ; mais quelques-uns de nos anciens élèves qui ont eu la chance de faire un stage dans un immeuble d'essai construit par Le Cornemusier vont vous faire une démonstration. . façon de vivre en rampant en rampant dans les appartements extrêmement bas de plafond."" ""you couldn't find an apartment because of apartment collectors . What's difficult is living in the apartments they offer you; but some of our former students who had the chance to do an internship in a test building con unknown‎

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‎Stephane MALLARME‎

‎Quatrain autographe signé adressé à Alidor Delzant‎

‎Valvins 1893. Fine. Valvins 4 juillet 1893 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto et une enveloppe Autograph quatrain signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written in black ink on the verso of a card. With envelope. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""Vole avec ce qui t'environne / A Paraÿs Lot-et-Garonne / Notre coeur qui n'es pas pris qu'aux / Séductions des abricots"" ""Fly with all that surrounds you / To Paraÿs Lot-et-Garonne / Our heart which is not taken only by / The seductions of apricots"" Amusing stanza of thanks for sending apricots. unknown‎

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‎Pierre LOUS‎

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

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

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‎Pierre LOUS‎

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

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

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‎Pierre LOUS‎

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

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

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‎George SAND‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Alphonse Peyrat‎

‎1868. Fine. s. d. mai 1868 13.50 x 20.70 cm 2 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by George Sand addressed to Alphonse Peyrat two pages written in black ink on a double sheet. Transverse folds inherent to mailing. Interesting letter evoking one of her faithful friends: Jean Patureau-Francoeur. George Sand had published a long obituary article in tribute to this close friend in L'Avenir national on May 2 1868. She described her late friend with great tenderness: ""C'était un simple paysan un vigneron des faubourgs de Châteauroux. Il avait appris tout seul à écrire et il écrivait très remarquablement avec ces naïves incorrections qui sont presque des grâces dans un style rustique et spontané. . Ce petit homme robuste à grosse tête ronde au teint coloré à l'œil bleu étincelant et doux était doué d'une façon supérieure. Il voyait la nature il l'observait il l'aimait et il la savait. . Son existence parmi nous fut pénible agitée méritante. Naturellement un esprit aussi complet que le sien devait se passionner pour les idées de progrès et de civilisation. Il fut avant la Révolution le représentant populaire des aspirations de son milieu et il travailla à les diriger vers un idéal de justice et d'humanité. ."" ""He was a simple peasant a wine-grower from the suburbs of Châteauroux. He had taught himself to write and he wrote remarkably well with those naive incorrections that are almost graces in a rustic and spontaneous style. . This sturdy little man with his large round head his ruddy complexion his sparkling and gentle blue eyes was gifted in a superior way. He saw nature observed it loved it and understood it. . His existence among us was painful agitated meritorious. Naturally a mind as complete as his had to be passionate about ideas of progress and civilization. He was before the Revolution the popular representative of his milieu's aspirations and he worked to direct them toward an ideal of justice and humanity. ."" In 1848 Patureau was elected mayor of Châteauroux and became the spokesman for the workers of his commune. ""Au moment du coup d'État il fut poursuivi mais il se cacha dans des familles amies et échappa à la police. George Sand obtint difficilement sa grâce ce qui lui permit de regagner Châteauroux. Il fut arrêté en janvier 1858 à la suite de la loi de sûreté générale."" ""At the time of the coup d'état he was pursued but he hid with friendly families and escaped the police. George Sand obtained with difficulty his pardon which allowed him to return to Châteauroux. He was arrested in January 1858 following the general security law."" ""Il resta un mois au cachot sur la paille en plein hiver. Quand on le mit dans la voiture cellulaire qui le dirigeait vers l'Afrique il était presque aveugle et depuis il a toujours souffert cruellement des yeux"" ""He remained a month in the dungeon on straw in the middle of winter. When they put him in the prison van that was taking him to Africa he was almost blind and since then he has always suffered cruelly with his eyes"" George Sand. In September 1858 following an intervention by George Sand with her friend Jérôme-Napoléon Napoleon III's cousin he was released but remained under surveillance. He settled in Algeria after obtaining permission to come to Châteauroux to sell his house and vineyard and to fetch his family. In Algeria he lived by his trade as a wine-grower was part of the Agricultural Society of Philippeville and wrote a treatise on viticulture."" Maintron ""À présent je viens vous demander de me payer ce petit article le plus cher que vous pouvez et d'envoyer le prix directement à Joseph Patureau rue de cluis n°7 à Châteauroux. Indre. Et cela le plus tôt possible."" ""Now I come to ask you to pay me for this little article as dearly as you can and to send the payment directly to Joseph Patureau rue de cluis n°7 à Châteauroux. Indre. And this as soon as possible."" Jos unknown‎

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‎Renee VIVIEN‎

‎"Je t'écris ce mot dans le train tu t'en apercevras vite en observant l'irrégularité de mon écriture."" • Autograph Letter to Natalie Clifford Barney‎

‎s. l. 1900. Fine. s. l. Vendredi soir printemps 1900 12.50 x 8.40 cm 6 pages sur 3 cartes Handwritten letter addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney: “Je t'écris ce mot dans le train tu t'en apercevras vite en observant l'irrégularité de mon écriture.” “I write this to you on the train you will quickly notice that by observing the irregularity of my handwriting.” s.l Friday evening Spring 1900 12.5 x 8.4 cm 6 pages on 3 cards Handwritten letter from Renée Vivien written in pencil on three blue cards with the poet's monogram. This letter has been published in “Renée Vivien et ses masques” in A l'Encart n°2 April 1980 A very beautiful letter written on a train: “Je t'écris ce mot dans le train tu t'en apercevras vite en observant l'irrégularité de mon écriture.” “I write this to you on the train you will quickly notice that by observing the irregularity of my handwriting.” Renée had just left her “cher petit amour” “dear little love” for a short stay outside of Paris: “Quelle folie de me séparer de toi même pour deux jours et comme je le regrette amèrement maintenant : - Seulement j'étais inquiète tu sais une fois rassurée j'aurai l'esprit tranquille désormais et je pensais goûter un bonheur absolu et parfait dans ton ombre tout près de toi. Comment ai-je pu être assez stupide et assez folle pour m'en aller ! Deux jours c'est si long ! C'est deux éternités de joie dont je me prive par ma bête faute ! - Vois-tu je t'aime à ne pouvoir vivre sans toi. Ne plus te voir est une souffrance accablante. Pense à moi Lys blanc - Lys blanc aime-moi car je suis triste ce soir.” “What madness to separate myself from you even for two days and as I bitterly regret it now: - Only I was worried you know once reassured I will have peace of mind from now on and I thought I would taste absolute and perfect happiness in your shadow very close to you. How could I be stupid enough and crazy enough to go away! Two days is so long! It is two eternities of joy that I deprive myself of by my own stupid fault! - You see I love you and cannot live without you. Not seeing you again is an overwhelming suffering. Think of me White Lilly - White Lilly love me because I am sad this evening.” In this letter we encounter Vivien's obsession with flowers: “J'ai reçu avant de partir l'adorable petit bouquet de violettes blanches que tu m'as si tendrement envoyé et le cher petit mot qui m'a touchée comme une plainte d'enfant triste.” “Before leaving I received the adorable little bouquet of white violets that you so tenderly sent and the dear little note that touched me like a sad child's complaint.” It is at the end of 1899 and through Violette Shillito that Renée Vivien - then Pauline Tarn - met Natalie Clifford Barney “cette Américaine plus souple qu'une écharpe dont l'étincelant visage brille de cheveux d'or de prunelles bleu de mer de dents implacables” “this American woman softer than a scarf whose sparkling face shines with golden hair sea blue eyes never-ending teeth” Colette Claudine à Paris. Natalie who had just experienced a summer romance with the scandalous Liane de Pougy who introduced her to sapphism paid little attention to this new acquaintance. Renée on the other hand was totally captivated by the young American woman and describes this love at first sight in her autobiographical novel Une Femme m'apparut: “J'évoquai l'heure déjà lointaine où je la vis pour la première fois et le frisson qui me parcourut lorsque mes yeux rencontrèrent ses yeux d'acier mortel ses yeux aigus et bleus comme une lame. J'eus l'obscur prescience que cette femme m'intimait l'ordre du destin que son visage était le visage redouté de mon avenir. Je sentis près d'elle les vertiges lumineux qui montent de l'abîme et l'appel de l'eau très profonde. Le charme du péril émanait d'elle et m'attirait inexorablement. Je n'essayai point de la fuir car j'aurais échappé plus aisément à la mort.” “I lived again the hour already well past when I saw unknown‎

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‎Renee VIVIEN‎

‎"Je compterai les secondes aux battements de mon coeur."" • Signed autograph card addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney‎

‎s. l. Paris 1900. Fine. s. l. • Paris s. d. ca 1900 9.50 x 5.60 cm une carte rédigée des deux côtés Autograph manuscript card signed ""Pauline"" and addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney written in black ink on both sides. Two small pinholes at the top of this card which accompanied a bouquet: ""Méchante d'être partie si vite ! - voici des orchidées blanches - elles te défendront contre les doutes et les pensées tristes. Elles te protègeront et t'assureront de ma profonde et éternelle tendresse. Ne sois pas en retard ce soir. Je compterai les secondes aux battements de mon coeur. Ces fleurs ce sont mes lèvres mon âme et mon coeur qui vont vers toi - Toujours."" ""Naughty to have left so quickly! - here are white orchids - they will defend you against doubts and sad thoughts. They will protect you and assure you of my deep and eternal tenderness. Don't be late tonight. I will count the seconds to the beating of my heart. These flowers are my lips my soul and my heart going towards you - Always."" It was at the end of 1899 and through the intermediary of Violette Shillito that Renée Vivien - then Pauline Tarn - made the acquaintance of Natalie Clifford Barney ""cette Américaine plus souple qu'une écharpe dont l'étincelant visage brille de cheveux d'or de prunelles bleu de mer de dents implacables"" ""this American more supple than a scarf whose sparkling face shines with golden hair sea-blue eyes and implacable teeth"" Colette Claudine à Paris. Natalie who had just experienced a summer idyll with the scandalous Liane de Pougy who had initiated her into sapphism paid only discreet attention to this new acquaintance. Renée however was completely captivated by the young American and would relate this love at first sight in her autobiographical novel Une Femme m'apparut: ""J'évoquai l'heure déjà lointaine où je la vis pour la première fois et le frisson qui me parcourut lorsque mes yeux rencontrèrent ses yeux d'acier mortel ses yeux aigus et bleus comme une lame. J'eus l'obscur prescience que cette femme m'intimait l'ordre du destin que son visage était le visage redouté de mon avenir. Je sentis près d'elle les vertiges lumineux qui montent de l'abîme et l'appel de l'eau très profonde. Le charme du péril émanait d'elle et m'attirait inexorablement. Je n'essayai point de la fuir car j'aurais échappé plus aisément à la mort."" ""I evoked the already distant hour when I saw her for the first time and the shiver that ran through me when my eyes met her eyes of mortal steel her eyes sharp and blue like a blade. I had the obscure presentiment that this woman was giving me destiny's order that her face was the dreaded face of my future. I felt near her the luminous vertigo that rises from the abyss and the call of very deep water. The charm of peril emanated from her and attracted me inexorably. I did not try to flee her for I would have escaped death more easily."" ""Hiver 1899-1900. Débuts de l'idylle. Un soir Vivien est invitée par sa nouvelle amie dans l'atelier de Mme Barney mère de Natalie 153 avenue Victor-Hugo à l'angle de la rue de Longchamp. Natalie s'enhardit à lire des vers de sa composition. Comme Vivien lui dit aimer ces vers elle lui répond qu'il vaut mieux aimer le poète. Réponse bien digne de l'Amazone."" ""Winter 1899-1900. Beginning of the idyll. One evening Vivien is invited by her new friend to Mme Barney's studio Natalie's mother 153 avenue Victor-Hugo at the corner of rue de Longchamp. Natalie ventures to read verses of her composition. When Vivien tells her she loves these verses she replies that it is better to love the poet. A response quite worthy of the Amazon."" J.-P. Goujon Tes blessures sont plus douces que leurs caresses Two years of unequal happiness followed punctuated by Natalie's recurring infidelities and Renée's pathological jealousy whose letters oscillated between impassioned declarations and painful mea culpas. ""Renée Vivien c'est la fille de Sappho et de Baudelaire c'est la f unknown‎

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‎Renee VIVIEN‎

‎"Je te l'ai dit par la voix brute du télégraphe Natalie le moment n'est pas venu de nous revoir. "" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney‎

‎s. l. Paris 1902. Fine. s. l. • Paris Le 1er avril 1902 11.50 x 15.90 cm 7 pages 1/2 sur deux doubles feuillets Handwritten signed letter addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney: “I told you by the raw voice of the telegraph Natalie the time has not come for us to see each other again.” Paris 1st April 1902 11.5 x 15.9 cm 7 pages 1/2 on two double leavesHandwritten letter signed “Pauline” from Renée Vivien addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney and written in black ink on two double leaves edged with violettes. Transverse folds from having been sent. Interesting letter mentioning Brumes de fjords and Freddy Manners-Sutton. “Tu te trompes en croyant retrouver dans Brumes de fjords un reflet de femme ou l'influence d'une pensée de poète norvégien. Je les ai faites d'un souvenir très lointain de ce pays mystique et de quelques rêves lourds de nostalgies.” “You are mistaken when you think that you find a reflection of a woman or the influence of a Norwegian poet's thinking in Brumes de fjords. I wrote them as a very distant memory of this mystical country and of some dreams heavy with nostalgia.” Brumes de fjords is the first collection of prose poetry by Renée Vivien to be published in June 1902. Natalie and Renée were then separated but this letter shows that the Muse aux violettes continued to send her texts to the Amazone despite the physical and sentimental distance that separated them. “Car j'ai dans ma vie une tendresse que je crois sincère – quoi qu'il me soit difficile aujourd'hui de croire à la sincérité même lorsqu'elle me montre ses larmes.” “Since I have a tenderness in my life which I believe to be sincere - though it is difficult for me today to believe in sincerity even when it shows me its tears.” This letter was indeed sent to Natalie Clifford Barney while she was in the United States: “Je serais venue si tu avais eu besoin de moi. Toi-même tu m'as télégraphiée que ma présence était inutile. lorsque ton temps était pris par un flirt Freddy Manners-Sutton  qui sait  et qu'importe  Il est trop tard maintenant. Je ne viens pas t'amuser ni remplacer une distraction absente. Si tu viens à Paris cet hiver je te verrai une ou deux fois – comme on revoit le visage lointain de son passé – sans colère sans haine mais aussi sans amour.” “I would have come if you needed me. You yourself telegraphed me that my presence was useless. when your time was taken by a flirt Freddy Manners-Sutton Who knows And what does it matter It's too late now. I don't come to amuse you or replace an absent distraction. If you come to Paris this winter I will see you once or twice - as you see the distant face of your past - without anger without hatred but also without love.” Here Renée gives free reign to her jealousy mentioning Freddy Manners-Sutton Natalie's friend: “En réalité Vivien ne pouvait supporter Manners-Sutton. Dans Une femme m'apparut elle l'appellera tout simplement Le Prostitué et dira de lui : Il est banal comme l'adultère. Cette antipathie se transformera en une haine féroce lorsqu'un peu plus tard Vivien apprendra que cet homme se faisait passer pour le fiancé de Natalie Barney. Sacrilège suprême. ! Mais Vivien ne savait pas – ou bien voulait ignorer – que cette rumeur était en fait propagée par Natalie Barney elle-même afin de donner le change à ses parents. Non pensait-elle ce personnage au-dessous de toute insulte veut tout simplement capter la fortune de Natalie !” “In reality Vivien could not bear Manners-Sutton. In Une femme m'apparut she will very simply call him Le Prostitué and will say of him: He is common like adultery. This antipathy will turn into a fierce hatred when a little later Vivien learns that this man pretends to be Natalie Barney's fiancé. Supreme sacrilege.! But Vivien did not know - or even wanted to ignore - that this rumour was actually spread by Natalie Barney herself in order to pull the wool over her parent's eyes. No she thought this below any insult character simply wan unknown‎

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‎Renee VIVIEN‎

‎"Tout-Petit que j'aime je t'envoie des pensées toutes blanches. Garde-les dans ta chambre auprès de toi où sont mes vraies pensées tu le sais."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney‎

‎s. l. Paris 1900. Fine. s. l. • Paris s. d. ca. 1900 12.30 x 16.50 cm 1 page1/2 sur un double feuillet Autograph manuscript letter by Renée Vivien signed ""Pauline"" addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney and written in black ink on a double sheet with the poetess's silver monogram letterhead. A very charming letter evoking the flowers so dear to Renée ""Tout-Petit que j'aime je t'envoie des pensées toutes blanches. Garde-les dans ta chambre auprès de toi où sont mes vraies pensées tu le sais."" ""Little one I love I send you pansies all white. Keep them in your room near you where my true thoughts are you know."" as well as a gift from her ""tout petit chéri"" ""dear little one"": ""J'adore mes tablettes tu te rappelles les tablettes des deux petites joueuses de flûte - seulement elles les ont perdues et moi je ne veux pas perdre les miennes. J'ai écrit dessus en grec J'aime Natalie ! Cela m'a fait tant de plaisir ! - quelle bonne et jolie pensée tu as eue là ! -"" ""I adore my tablets do you remember the tablets of the two little flute players - only they lost them and I don't want to lose mine. I wrote on them in Greek I love Natalie! It gave me such pleasure! - what a good and lovely thought you had there! -"" Renée Vivien's Hellenist passion was born from her encounter with Eva Palmer during their stay in the United States where she accompanied Natalie Clifford Barney. This beautiful twenty-six-year-old redhead who it is said had translated all of Plato's Symposium with the Amazon gave Renée her first lessons in ancient Greek and awakened in her the passion for the poetess Sappho that never left her thereafter. It was at the end of 1899 and through Violette Shillito that Renée Vivien - then Pauline Tarn - made the acquaintance of Natalie Clifford Barney ""this American more supple than a scarf whose sparkling face shines with golden hair sea-blue eyes and implacable teeth"" Colette Claudine à Paris. Natalie who had just lived a summer idyll with the sulfurous Liane de Pougy who had initiated her into sapphism paid only discreet attention to this new acquaintance. Renée however was totally captivated by the young American and would relate this love at first sight in her autobiographical novel Une Femme m'apparut: ""I evoked the already distant hour when I saw her for the first time and the shiver that ran through me when my eyes met her eyes of mortal steel her sharp blue eyes like a blade. I had the obscure presentiment that this woman was giving me destiny's order that her face was the dreaded face of my future. I felt near her the luminous vertigo that rises from the abyss and the call of very deep water. The charm of peril emanated from her and attracted me inexorably. I did not try to flee her for I would have escaped death more easily."" ""Winter 1899-1900. Beginning of the idyll. One evening Vivien is invited by her new friend to Mme Barney's studio Natalie's mother 153 avenue Victor-Hugo at the corner of rue de Longchamp. Natalie ventures to read verses of her own composition. When Vivien tells her she loves these verses she replies that it is better to love the poet. A response quite worthy of the Amazon."" J.-P. Goujon Tes blessures sont plus douces que leurs caresses Two years of unequal happiness followed punctuated by Natalie's recurring infidelities and Renée's pathological jealousy whose letters oscillated between passionate declarations and painful mea culpa. ""Renée Vivien is the daughter of Sappho and Baudelaire she is the flower of evil 1900 with fevers broken flights sad voluptuousness."" Jean Chalon Portrait d'une séductrice In 1901 came an important rupture that would last almost two years; Renée despite Natalie's solicitations and the intermediaries she sends to win her back resists. ""The two friends saw each other again and it was in August 1905 the pilgrimage to Lesbos which constituted a disappointment for Natalie Barney and remained without consequence. . unknown‎

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‎Renee VIVIEN - (to Natalie Clifford BARNEY)‎

‎Lettre d'amour autographe signée adressée à Natalie Clifford Barney : ""J'ai laissé mon cœur sur tes lèvres il y frémira quand tu me diras : Je t'aime !"" • Autograph love letter signed and addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney: ""I left my heart upon your lips it will tremble there when you say to me: I love you!""‎

‎s. l. Londres London 1900. Fine. s. l. • Londres London Le 18 mars 1900 9.90 x 15.20 cm 14 pages sur 3 doubles feuillets et 1 feuillet simple Very long autograph letter handwritten by Renée Vivien signed “Pauline” written in black ink on three bifolia with letterhead from 24 Hyde Park Street and one single leaf. Horizontal folds inherent to mailing. A beautiful love letter sent from London while Renée was staying with her family: « Quand je pense qu'un télégramme va banalement et brutalement t'apprendre que je reste encore une semaine à Londres j'ai envie de pleurer. Et pourtant il ne faut pas que je pleure cela m'affaiblirait trop et j'ai besoin de toutes mes forces et de mon courage. » This painful separation is in the young woman’s eyes a necessary evil the promise of a radiant future: « Si je te fais ce chagrin mon amie c'est pour que nous soyons plus heureuses après. . Ne m'en veux pas de te faire attendre je souffre plus que toi ; et si je t'impose en me l'imposant moi-même cette souffrance du désappointement c'est afin de mériter mieux l'amour que tu m'accordes et le bonheur que tu me donnes par la douleur et par le sacrifice. Je serai ainsi plus digne de toi et tu m'aimeras mieux pour les larmes que j'ai offertes à notre amour. » Only a few months had passed since Renée and Natalie had begun seeing each other and one can already sense here the importance of this bond for the Muse of Violets and her insatiable need to be loved: « Tu me pardonnes dis Tu me souris toujours Je t'en prie envoie-moi ton pardon afin que je le sente comme une rosée sur mon front. Dis-moi de loin que tu m'aimes toujours et je t'entendrai à travers tout l'espace qui nous sépare. . Je t'aime à en mourir enfant chérie qui es le beau sourire blond de ma vie. Tout ce que je te dis et sic sincère. Crois-moi. Aime-moi. » Idealizing this relationship she launches into a magnificent litany: « Te faire souffrir toi qui m'as donné la joie rayonnante de mon existence ! Toi qui m'as fait aimer la vie ! - Toi qui m'as mis tant de beaux rêves dans l'âme tant de bonheur et tant de chaleur au cœur ! - Toi qui es ma consolation mon espérance mon extase la merveille et le miracle de ma vie ! - Toi qui m'as donné l'amour qui me l'as révélé qui me l'as fait sentir et comprendre ! - Toi que j'aime ! » A superb letter-river imbued with the consuming passion of the Muse of Violets for her Amazon. At the end of 1899 through Violette Shillito Renée Vivien—then Pauline Tarn—met Natalie Clifford Barney “cette Américaine plus souple qu'une écharpe dont l'étincelant visage brille de cheveux d'or de prunelles bleu de mer de dents implacables” Colette Claudine à Paris. Natalie fresh from a summer romance with the scandalous Liane de Pougy who had introduced her to sapphism paid little heed to this new acquaintance. Renée on the other hand was utterly captivated by the young American and would recount this coup de foudre in her autobiographical novel Une Femme m'apparut: “J'évoquai l'heure déjà lointaine où je la vis pour la première fois et le frisson qui me parcourut lorsque mes yeux rencontrèrent ses yeux d'acier mortel ses yeux aigus et bleus comme une lame. J'eus l'obscur prescience que cette femme m'intimait l'ordre du destin que son visage était le visage redouté de mon avenir. Je sentis près d'elle les vertiges lumineux qui montent de l'abîme et l'appel de l'eau très profonde. Le charme du péril émanait d'elle et m'attirait inexorablement. Je n'essayai point de la fuir car j'aurais échappé plus aisément à la mort.” “Winter 1899–1900. The beginnings of the idyll. One evening Vivien is invited by her new friend to the studio of Mme Barney Natalie’s mother 153 avenue Victor-Hugo at the corner of rue de Longchamp. Natalie dares to read aloud her own verses. When Vivien tells her she admires them she replies that it is better to love the poet. A response truly worthy of the Amazon.” J.-P. Goujon Tes blessures sont plu unknown‎

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‎Emile ZOLA‎

‎"Vous avez eu l'obligeance de me donner certains détails sur l'inventaire. Vous m'avez dit qu'on choisissait le premier dimanche d'août qu'on fermait les portes et que tous les employés s'y mettaient."" • Autograph letter signed unpublished addressed to Léon Carbonnaux head of department at Le Bon Marché and advice for the writing of Au bonheur des Dames‎

‎Médan 1882. Fine. Médan 16 novembre 1882 13.60 x 21.40 cm 2 pages sur un double feuillet - enveloppe jointe Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - addressed to Léon Carbonnaux written in black ink on a double sheet. Folds inherent to mailing. Envelope included. Important testimony to the colossal documentation work and the capital role of Emile Zola's informants in depicting his immense natural and social fresco. This letter was sent to Léon Carbonnaux department head at Bon Marché who transmitted precious information to Emile Zola for the creation of the eleventh volume of the Rougon-Macquart series: Au Bonheur des Dames. Only two letters from Léon Carbonnaux to Emile Zola are known: they can be consulted in the digitization of the preparatory file for Bonheur des Dames made available online by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. However we know thanks to this same file which contains a long section entitled ""Notes Carbonnaux"" that this department head at Bon Marché provided a significant amount of information to Zola particularly about employee customs and their remuneration. The two men undoubtedly met when Emile Zola eager for information about the functioning of department stores conducted field research in February and March 1882. ""J'ai pris l'inventaire comme cadre à un de mes chapitres. D'ailleurs je n'ai spécialement besoin que du travail dans le rayon des confections et dans le rayon des soieries. Il est inutile de me renseigner sur les autres rayons."" ""I have taken the inventory as the framework for one of my chapters. Moreover I specifically only need the work in the ready-to-wear department and in the silk department. It is unnecessary to inform me about the other departments."" Thanks to this important letter we understand that it was Léon Carbonnaux who provided the essential information to Emile Zola for writing his very beautiful eleventh chapter devoted to the inventory: ""Vous avez eu l'obligeance de me donner certains détails sur l'inventaire. Vous m'avez dit qu'on choisissait le premier dimanche d'août qu'on fermait les portes et que tous les employés s'y mettaient. On vide toutes les cases n'est-ce pas on jette les marchandises sur les comptoirs ou à terre et l'inventaire n'est terminé que lorsqu'il n'y a plus absolument rien en place."" ""You were kind enough to give me certain details about the inventory. You told me that the first Sunday in August was chosen that the doors were closed and all the employees set to work. All the compartments are emptied aren't they The merchandise is thrown onto the counters or on the ground and the inventory is only finished when there is absolutely nothing left in place.""The final version of Bonheur des Dames contains all the precious information provided by the department head of Bon Marché: ""Le premier dimanche d'août on faisait l'inventaire qui devait être terminé le soir même. Dès le matin comme un jour de semaine tous les employés étaient à leur poste et la besogne avait commencé les portes closes dans les magasins vides de clientes. . Neuf heures sonnaient. . Dans le magasin inondé de soleil par les grandes baies ouvertes le personnel enfermé venait de commencer l'inventaire. On avait retiré les boutons des portes des gens s'arrêtaient sur le trottoir regardant par les glaces étonnés de cette fermeture lorsqu'on distinguait à l'intérieur une activité extraordinaire. C'était d'un bout à l'autre des galeries du haut en bas des étages un piétinement d'employés des bras en l'air des paquets volant par-dessus les têtes ; et cela au milieu d'une tempête de cris de chiffres lancés dont la confusion montait et se brisait en un tapage assourdissant. Chacun des trente-neuf rayons faisait sa besogne à part sans s'inquiéter des rayons voisins. D'ailleurs on attaquait à peine les casiers il n'y avait encore par terre que quelques pièces d'étoffe. La machine devait s'échauffer si l'on voulait finir le soir même. unknown‎

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‎Renee VIVIEN‎

‎Poème d'amour autographe inédit à Natalie Clifford Barney ""A l'absente"" • Unpublished handwritten poem to Natalie Clifford Barney‎

‎s. l. 1900. Fine. s. l. 20 mars 1900 10 x 15.70 cm 2 pages sur un double feuillet Unpublished handwritten poem to Natalie Clifford Barney « à l'absente » 20 March 1900 10 x 157 cm 2 pages on a double leaf Handwritten poem entitled « à l'absente » “To the absent one” and addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney. Two pages written in black ink on a double leaf headed 24 Hyde Park Street. To our knowledge this three-verse octosyllabic poem is unpublished. It is preceded on the first section of this double leaf by a little handwritten message: “These are the verses I have made – I would rather say the tears which I have shed – for you. Turn the page you will find them there in all their melancholy.” Oui c'est toi mon rêve suprême Pendant ces longs ces mornes jours Où je pleure au fond de moi-même L'exil triste de mes amours! . N'as-tu pas entendu ma blonde Le bruit d'un sanglot qui revient Dans le cœur de la nuit profonde C'est mon amour qui se souvient. It is at the end of 1899 and through Violette Shillito that Renée Vivien – then Pauline Tarn – met Natalie Clifford Barney ""this American woman softer than a scarf whose sparkling face shines with golden hair sea blue eyes never-ending teeth"" Colette Claudine à Paris. Natalie who had just experienced a summer romance with the scandalous Liane de Pougy who introduced her to sapphism paid little attention to this new acquaintance. Renée on the other hand was totally captivated by the young American woman and describes this love at first sight in her autobiographical novel Une femme m'apparut: ""I lived again the hour already well past when I saw her for the first time felt the shiver that ran through me when my eyes met the mortal steel of her look those eyes blue and piercing as a blade. I had a dim premonition that this woman would determine the pattern of my fate and that her face was the predestined face of my Future. Near her I felt the luminous dizziness which comes at the edge of an abyss or the attraction of a very deep water. She radiated the charm of danger which drew me to her inexorably."" ""Winter 1899-1900. Beginnings of the idyll. One evening Vivien is invited by her new friend to Mme Barney's studio Natalie's mother 153 avenue Victor-Hugo on the corner of the rue de Longchamp. Natalie finds the courage to read the verses of her composition. As Vivien tells her to love these verses she tells her that it is better to love the poet. A response worthy of the Amazon."" J.-P. Goujon Tes blessures sont plus douces que leurs caresses Two years of unequal happiness will follow punctuated by Natalie's recurring infidelities and Renée's sickly jealousy the letters of which oscillate between inflamed declarations and painful admissions of guilt. ""Renée Vivien is the daughter of Sappho and Baudelaire she is the 1900 flower of evil with fevers broken-up fights sad delights."" Jean Chalon Portrait d'une séductrice In 1901 a major break-up occurred which lasted almost two years; Renée despite requests from Natalie and the others she sent to win her back resisted. ""The two friends saw each other again and in August 1905 went on a pilgrimage to Lesbos which was a disappointment for Natalie Barney and was short-lived. . The spring was broken once and for all. The two former friends stopped seeing each other in 1907 and Vivien died without them seeing each other again."" J.-P. Goujon ibid. unknown‎

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‎Renee VIVIEN‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Charles Maurras : ""En feuillettant votre si intéressant volume : De l'Avenir de l'Intelligence j'ai relu avec un plaisir ému les pages - trop indulgentes vraiment ! - que vous avez consacré à mes ouvrages.""‎

‎s. l. Paris 1906. Fine. s. l. • Paris s. d. ca. 1906 11.50 x 16 cm 1 page 1/2 sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Renée Vivien addressed to Charles Maurras written in violet ink on a double leaf of headed paper adorned with a border of violets. Transverse folds inherent to mailing envelope included. Beautiful letter of thanks: ""Monsieur En feuillettant votre si intéressant volume : De l'Avenir de l'Intelligence j'ai relu avec un plaisir ému les pages - trop indulgentes vraiment ! - que vous avez consacré à mes ouvrages. Merci infiniment. Et veuillez agréer mes très reconnaissants sentiments de confraternité littéraire. Renée Vivien"" ""Sir While leafing through your most interesting volume: De l'Avenir de l'Intelligence I reread with moved pleasure the pages - too indulgent really! - that you dedicated to my works. Thank you infinitely. And please accept my most grateful sentiments of literary confraternity. Renée Vivien"" Charles Maurras had indeed devoted a dithyrambic chapter of his work to the Muse of violets whose verses he compared to those of Verlaine: ""Le vieux faune sentimental des Fêtes galantes et de Parallèlement reconnaîtrait chez Renée Vivien beaucoup plus qu'une élève certainement une des Sœurs une de ces Amies terribles qu'il a chantées. Quant à Baudelaire il lui dirait : ""Ma fille"" aux premiers regards échangés. Baudelairisme profond central générateur."" ""The old sentimental faun of Fêtes galantes and Parallèlement would recognize in Renée Vivien much more than a student certainly one of the Sisters one of those terrible Friends he sang of. As for Baudelaire he would say to her: 'My daughter' at first glance. Deep central generative Baudelairism."" unknown‎

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‎Frederic-Auguste CAZALS‎

‎Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Emile Straus‎

‎Paris: S. n. 1904. Fine. S. n. Paris 7 avril 1904 14.10 x 9.10 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Frédéric-Auguste Cazals addressed to Emile Straus: ""Souvenir amical - F. A. Cazals Paris 7/4/04"" ""Friendly remembrance - F. A. Cazals Paris 7/4/04"" Some stains. A great enthusiast of epistolary art Emile Straus founded in 1899 La Carte postale illustrée the newsletter of the association he had just launched the International Poste-Carte Club. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Jules CLARETIE‎

‎Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Emile Straus‎

‎Paris: S. n. 1904. Fine. S. n. Paris 3 janvier 1904 14 x 9 cm une carte postale Signed autograph postcard from Jules Clarétie addressed to Emile Straus on a postcard reproducing the photograph of his portrait at his work table: ""A M. Emile Straus tous mes souhaits. Jules Claretie."" ""To Mr. Emile Straus all my best wishes. Jules Claretie."" Some staining. A great enthusiast of epistolary art Emile Straus founded in 1899 La Carte postale illustrée the newsletter of the association he had just launched the International Poste-Carte Club. S. n. unknown‎

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‎Maurice LEBLANC‎

‎"Revue Blanche ne paie pas."" • Signed autograph note‎

‎Vaucottes Vattetot-sur-mer 1893. Fine. Vaucottes Vattetot-sur-mer 21 septembre 1893 15.60 x 20.10 cm quelques lignes sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Maurice Leblanc to an unknown recipient; a few lines written in black ink on a sheet. Transverse folds inherent to mailing. ""Sitôt ton mot retiré de la poste été Etretat. Trop tard. Natanson parti. 28 jours. Ne sera à Paris qu'en novembre. Alors nous verrons. Revue Blanche ne paie pas. Tempête épouvantable - grêle."" ""As soon as your note was collected from the post office went to Etretat. Too late. Natanson left. 28 days. Won't be in Paris until November. Then we'll see. Revue Blanche doesn't pay. Terrible storm - hail."" unknown‎

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‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎" Et puis aussi gratitudes pour tout le soin qu'elle a pris de Mme Gen Paul !. Laquelle ne donne aucune nouvelle. Quelle vacherie encore . Comme c'est amusant !"" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen‎

‎s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. • Klarskovgaard 17 novembre 1950 21 x 34 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed with the initials of Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer Master Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number ""568"" in Céline's hand in red pencil at the top left. Transversal folds inherent to mailing. This letter was very partially transcribed in Année Céline 2005. Early November 1950 Gaby Paul had come to visit Céline and Lucette at Klarskovgaard: ""Oh mille mercis à Mme Christensen pour son aimable repas qui réchauffé fit nos délices ! Et puis aussi gratitudes pour tout le soin qu'elle a pris de Mme Gen Paul !. Laquelle ne donne aucune nouvelle. Quelle vacherie encore . Comme c'est amusant ! Je crois qu'elle avait des projets ""journalistiques"" mais que mon attitude l'a désenchantée. """"Oh a thousand thanks to Madame Christensen for her kind meal which reheated was our delight! And also gratitude for all the care she took of Mme Gen Paul!. Who gives no news. What nastiness again. How amusing! I believe she had 'journalistic' projects but my attitude disenchanted her."" Céline also mentions the Swedish writer Ernst Bendz one of the few to defend Céline alongside Paraz: ""Une lettre amusante de Bendz ! Bendz appartient vraiment à l'aristocratie des esprits ! La preuve ! La façon qu'il ""m'estime""!!!""""An amusing letter from Bendz! Bendz truly belongs to the aristocracy of minds! The proof! The way he 'esteems me'!!!"" In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement was confined in Denmark. It was in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrived at his lawyer Master Thorvald Mikkelsen's home at Klarskovgaard. The latter owned a large property by the Baltic Sea and invited the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the épuration the writer was definitively sentenced in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year of imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The Swedish Consul General in Paris Raoul Nordling intervened on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen Danish Foreign Minister and managed to delay his extradition. On April 20 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtained Céline's amnesty under the title of ""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

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‎Honore de BALZAC‎

‎"j'assiste aujourd'hui à un dîner diplomatique de bons enfants qui veulent rire et boire et comme je suis hébété de travail je n'ai pas le courage de me refuser cette débauche"" • Autograph letter signed to Louis Desnoyers‎

‎1839. Fine. s. d. ca 1839 13 x 8 cm une feuille Signed handwritten letter to Louis Desnoyers ca 1839 13 x 8 cm one leaf Handwritten letter signed by Honoré de Balzac addressed to Louis Desnoyers written on a white piece of paper in black ink. “My dear Mr Desnoyers extraordinarily today I attend a diplomatic dinner of good-natured folk who want to laugh and drink and as I am in a stupor at work I have not had the courage to refuse this debauchery; I will therefore not be at home. Come early Sunday morning. / Yours / de Balzac”. Louis Desnoyers plays an important role in the foundation of the Société des gens de lettres which aims to protect literary and artistic property and to create a solidarity fund. Balzac supported the creation of this Society of which Desnoyers was vice-president. Amusing letter testimony of Balzac's love of good food. unknown‎

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‎Judith GAUTIER‎

‎"Je pensais à la cuisine qui va être très noire et à la fenêtre bouchée"" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Francis Chrétien‎

‎Alger Algiers 1910. Fine. Alger Algiers s. d. ca 1910 16.30 x 20.90 cm 3 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Judith Gautier addressed to Francis Chrétien the husband of her maid Céleste. Three pages written in violet ink on a double sheet with letterhead from 30 rue Washington. Transverse folds inherent to mailing. Judith Gautier sends Francis some instructions regarding the renovation of her house in Dinard le Pré aux oiseaux: ""Je pensais à la cuisine qui va être très noire et à la fenêtre bouchée qui est du côté du jardin sous la fenêtre de la salle à manger. Il me semble qu'elle rendrait du jour et même du soleil si elle était débouchée et bien disposée."" ""I was thinking about the kitchen which will be very dark and the blocked window which is on the garden side under the dining room window. It seems to me that it would provide light and even sunlight if it were unblocked and well arranged."" unknown‎

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