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Andre MALRAUX - Sophie de VILMORIN
Carte postale manuscrite enrichie de la signature d'André Malraux écrite depuis Bombay à leurs amis Minka et Karl Hans Strauss
s. l.: s. n. 1974. Fine. s. n. s. l. 27 Novembre 1974 15 x 10 cm une feuille Manuscript postcard enhanced with André Malraux's signature written from Bombay to their friends Minka and Karl Hans Strauss 13 lines in blue ballpoint pen. The postcard shows a reproduction of Hindu sculpture. ""Chers amis que c'était beau ! Nous vous embrassons affectueusement Sophie."" ""Dear friends how beautiful it was! We embrace you affectionately Sophie."" Separated from his wife Madeleine at the end of the 1960s André Malraux began a second relationship with the writer Louise de Vilmorin and moved in with her at the Vilmorin château in Verrières-le-Buisson. After her death on December 26 1969 André Malraux continued to live at the château with Louise's niece Sophie de Vilmorin who became his last companion and cared for him until his death on November 23 1976. s. n. unknown
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Andre MALRAUX - Sophie de VILMORIN
Carte postale manuscrite enrichie de la signature d'André Malraux écrite depuis Delhi à leurs amis Minka et Karl Hans Strauss
s. l.: s. n. 1973. Fine. s. n. s. l. 20 Avril 1973 15 x 10 cm une feuille Handwritten postcard with André Malraux's autograph inscription written from Delhi to their friends Minka and Karl Hans Strauss 12 lines in blue ballpoint pen. The postcard shows a view of the Taj Mahal. ""Chers amis nous faisons un voyage admirable et voyons mille merveilles. André va très bien. Nous partirons demain pour le Bangla Desh et le Népal."" ""Dear friends we are having an admirable journey and seeing a thousand marvels. André is doing very well. We leave tomorrow for Bangladesh and Nepal."" Separated from his wife Madeleine at the end of the 1960s André Malraux formed a second relationship with the writer Louise de Vilmorin and moved with her to the Château de Vilmorin in Verrières-le-Buisson. After her death on December 26 1969 André Malraux continued to live at the château with Louise's niece Sophie de Vilmorin who became his final companion and cared for him until his death on November 23 1976. s. n. unknown
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COLETTE
"Mais Claude j'ai eu 78 ans sonnés c'est le cas de le dire le 28 janvier"" • Signed autograph letter addressed to his friend Claude Farrère
Paris 1951. Fine. Paris 18 Mars 1951 13.50 x 21 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend Claude Farrère from her Parisian home at the Palais-Royal 31 lines in black ink on her famous blue paper. Although her health is failing Colette wishes to continue their epistolary exchanges: ""Ne m'interdis pas le plaisir de te répondre grand Claude ! Je vis alitée arthrite jambes Je suis sortie - une fois en voiture - une fois en 80 jours. Evidemment je préfèrerais ne pas souffrir ou souffrir moins."" ""Don't forbid me the pleasure of responding to you dear Claude! I live bedridden arthritis legs I went out - once by car - once in 80 days. Obviously I would prefer not to suffer or to suffer less."" and still attempts to show herself optimistic and pragmatic: ""Mais ma fenêtre est tournée vers le sud sur le Jardin sur le soleil ai-je le droit de me plaindre Et puis j'ai épousé un saint. Alors ! "" ""But my window faces south onto the Garden onto the sun do I have the right to complain And then I married a saint. So there!"" She questions her friend about his current state of health and mood: ""Comment es-tu Ta lettre a oublié de me le dire. Recommence-la ! Ce sera ta punition"" ""How are you Your letter forgot to tell me. Start it over! That will be your punishment"" but also about his new work: ""Vite que j'ai ton nouveau livre ! Trois semaines c'est long."" ""Quick let me have your new book! Three weeks is long."" Fold marks inherent to postal handling. A date has been inscribed probably by Claude Farrère in red pen in the upper right corner of the letter certainly that of receiving the letter. unknown
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AUTOGRAPHS.
Autograph collection.
1883-1916. Autograph hunting among British high society A fine assemblage of around 250 signatures of the luminaries of the Victorian and Edwardian age including a signed portrait of Ernest Shackleton the signatures of Prime Ministers Arthur Balfour and H. H. Asquith and the writers George Trevelyan John Morley and George Augustus Sala. Most of the signatures are clipped and mounted alongside their letterhead. The rest are tipped-in letters many of which are made out to Samuel Holliday 1846-1912 who worked as a superintendent for the North Eastern Railway for 48 years and consequently encountered many notable travellers - some are letters of thanks for his service. His obituary noted "he was one of the best known figures in railway circles at York and Newcastle and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him either in his official or private capacity" North Mail Newcastle Daily Chronicle 20 August 1912. Other letters are addressed to different people and acquired elsewhere. Where dated the letters range from 1883 to 1916. Also included are loose signed photographic portraits of William Booth Liza Lehmann and Harry Lauder and a signed sketch of Harry Furniss. Provenance: Anon. Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. London May 9 1983 Lot 356; sold to Steve Forbes chairman of Forbes Magazine and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections; his book label is loosely inserted. Contemporary half morocco album 283 x 229 mm brown cloth sides silk moiré endpapers cloth inner hinge supports. Together with five loose portraits of which four signed see note. Album rubbed some signatures loose contents a little toned. In very good condition. hardcover
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Sterne, Laurence [Bookplates Of Dorothy Gish]
The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Gentleman & Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy Vols. I & Ii Complete With Bookplates Of Dorothy Gish
London: Macmillan and Co 1911. Macmillan Library of English Classics Ed . Half Dark Blue Calf. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 368 378. Half Dark Blue Calf With Maroon Calf Labels. Full Gilt Spine. Top Edge Gilt. Hand Marbled End Papers. Large Engraved Bookplates Of Actress Dorothy Gish Signed Fr By The Designer No Names Or Marks Not Signed. Near Fine Gift Quality. <br/> <br/> Macmillan and Co unknown
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Liane de POUGY
"Missy-Missou est revenue nous voir avec 2 amis. C'est bien elle-lui que vous avez vu à l'Opéra. Il ou elle eût été charmée de vous saluer mais ne vous as pas perçu."" • Dated autograph letter addressed to Salomon Reinach in particular about the visits of his friend ""Missy"" Mathilde de Morny
Le Clos-Marie Roscoff 1924. Fine. Le Clos-Marie Roscoff 30 Août 1924 21 x 27.50 cm 1 page recto verso Autograph letter dated from Liane de Pougy addressed to the French archaeologist curator of the Saint-Germain museum and professor of art history at the École du Louvre Salomon Reinach 56 lines written in blue ink on a recto verso leaf written from her property Clos-Marie in Roscoff where the famous courtesan stayed until 1926. A small tear in the right margin of the letter and inherent to the folding of the missive. Liane de Pougy does not have time to be bored in her Roscoff property: ""J'écris beaucoup dans mes cahiers fleuris et je reçois des visites"" I write a lot in my flowered notebooks and I receive visits where her great friend Mathilde de Morny known as ""Missy"" famous Amazon of Tout-Paris comes to see her: ""Missy-Missou est revenue nous voir avec 2 amis. C'est bien elle-lui que vous avez vu à l'Opéra. Il ou elle eût été charmée de vous saluer mais ne vous as pas perçu. Il est reparti emmenant Max Jacob qui est déjà revenu."" Missy-Missou came back to see us with 2 friends. It is indeed she-he that you saw at the Opera. He or she would have been delighted to greet you but did not see you. He left taking Max Jacob who has already returned. Liane de Pougy receives many people: ""Nous attendons le jeune de Jacques de Maleisgne avec sa femme son nègre des animaux - des instruments banjo etc. Vous voyez qu'il y a de quoi s'occuper."" We are expecting young Jacques de Maleisgne with his wife his negro animals - instruments banjo etc. You see there is plenty to keep busy. complains about her health affected by weather conditions: ""En plus de mes occupations j'ai des douleurs alimentées par les pluies incessantes cependant ce matin ma fenêtre est ouverte sur un paysage riant."" In addition to my occupations I have pains fed by incessant rains however this morning my window is open on a smiling landscape. while appreciating with a certain melancholy the beauties of nature surrounding her: ""Les rosiers poussent drus leurs fleurs persistent les grenouilles et les limaces sont heureuses baveuses et ne demandent plus de roi ! Les guêpes bourdonnent tristement désenchantées de la saison ratée. et nous attendons l'hiver et ses feux ses lumières ses neiges ses fourrures et tous ses artifices."" The rose bushes grow thick their flowers persist the frogs and slugs are happy drooling and no longer ask for a king! The wasps buzz sadly disenchanted with the failed season. and we await winter and its fires its lights its snows its furs and all its artifices. Fine letter from the famous courtesan actress and author Liane de Pougy relating her friendships with the Tout-Paris of the Amazons. unknown
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Francois Rene de CHATEAUBRIAND
"le temps de planter est venu"" • Autograph letter signed to the husband of Atala Chateaubriand's goddaughter
Paris 1827. Fine. Paris 14 mars 1827 16.20 x 19.30 cm trois pages et demi sur un bifeuillet ""the time for planting has come"" Autograph letter signed by François-René de Chateaubriand dated March 14 1827. 3 1/2 pages in black ink on a bifolium addressed to Michel-Augustin Varcollier. Chateaubriand writes to the husband of his goddaughter Atala Stamaty-Varcollier the first to bear the name of the heroine of his famous novel that propelled him onto the literary scene in 1801. Head of the Fine Arts Division of the Seine Prefecture Michel-Augustin Varcollier acted as Chateaubriand's intermediary in the development of the grounds of l'Infirmerie Marie-Thérèse his wife Céleste's grand project to house elderly priests and nobles widowed by the French Revolution. Here Monsieur is a bill from Madame de Chateaubriand to M. de Chabrol inviting him to attend Marie-Thérèse's council meeting which will take place next Wednesday the 21st at 2 a.m."". M. de Chabrol was kind enough to suggest Friday of this week but it has been impossible to gather MM. the Counselors for that day. Kindly explain this to Monsieur de Chabrol. . I have obtained permission from the Prefect of Police to place palisades along the walls. Now I need permission from M. le Préfet de Paris to plant within these palisades. I'm going to pretend I've already got it because the time for planting has come. I have no doubt that Mr. Préfet will continue his gestures of kindness. There is still to complete the work on the trellis on my little boulevart sic to give two coats of paint to the barriers. I recommend myself to M. de Fresnes for the completion of this great work. I must thank him and you Monsieur for all the kindness you have shown me.""  unknown
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Leon BLUM
"Le pays se sauvera lui-même. Il sauvera la Liberté. Il sauvera la Paix"" • Signed autograph manuscript
1948. Fine. s. d. 1948 21 x 27 cm quatre feuillets Signed autograph manuscript entitled ""A Compiègne et au Palais Bourbon"" by Léon Blum 3 and a half pages in blue ink on the verso of four sheets with letterhead from the newspaper Le Populaire Central Organ of the Socialist Party S.F.I.O. Numerous passages crossed out and rewritten in black ink. Horizontal fold mark on each sheet notes from a previous bibliographer in pencil at the head of the first sheet. The article appeared in the daily newspaper Le Populaire on March 9 1948. Fine and virulent diatribe by Léon Blum following General De Gaulle's Compiègne speech denouncing his maneuvers toward a ""strong State."" He paints a hopeful picture of German reconciliation European construction as well as the Marshall Plan soon to be ratified - of which he had been the great negotiator. On March 7 1948 the general who had just founded the Rally of the French People was invited by the new mayor Jean Legendre who had rallied to the RPF. At a pivotal moment of international tensions before several tens of thousands of people gathered at the château square De Gaulle called on the French to unite to refound the Fourth Republic and free countries to unite against communism following the ""Prague coup."" Remaining excluded from power he then began his crossing of the desert until his return in 1958 thanks to the Algerian crisis which brought down the weak Fourth Republic. Having established the foundations of this same Republic Blum disapproves in these pages of De Gaulle's challenge to parliamentary institutions - even as his own Gaullists deputies obstruct debates in the assembly. He opposes the general's catastrophist discourse with an optimistic vision of European and international reconstruction convinced of the great resilience of the French nation and confident in its institutions. « Chose curieuse c'est la presse gaulliste qui attendait le discours de Compiègne avec la curiosité et l'impatience la plus marquées. . En fin de compte le discours de Compiègne n'a apporté rien de neuf. Il a fait entendre que toutes ses mesures étaient arrêtées et que sans doute aussi ses hommes étaient choisis. Il a déclaré que la situation était trop critique en France en Europe et dans le monde pour permettre qu'on différât davantage. Mais il a persisté cependant à affirmer - c'est du moins ainsi que j'interprète un texte volontairement obscur biffé : ambigu - qu'il ne gouvernerait pas dans le cadre des institutions présentes biffé : anciennes et qu'il n'accepterait qu'un pouvoir taillé à sa mesure . Rien de bon ne peut en sortir a-t-il conclu ; il n'est que temps de tirer la France de ce marécage pour l'installer sur le sol ferme et salubre de l'Etat fort. Tout cela va fort bien. Seulement à l'heure même où le général prononçait contre les partis et les institutions parlementaires le réquisitoire altier l'Assemblée nationale siégeait au Palais Bourbon. Elle promouvait l'examen des propositions relatives au prélèvement René Mayer. Et là on voyait la coalition du parti gaulliste avec ces mêmes « séparatistes » que le discours de Compiègne dénonçait comme des traîtres s'étaler avec une impudence plus scandaleuse de jamais . Dénoncer l'impuissance parlementaire tout en l'organisant stigmatiser la malfaisance et l'immoralité des partis tout en en fournissant l'exemple éhonté c'est une attitude commode mais qui brave par trop violemment le bon sens et l'honnêteté. . Certes la situation intérieure est sérieuse et la situation internationale ne l'est pas moins. Mais le redoutable hiver s'achève le ravitaillement s'améliore. La tendance s'améliore vers la baisse des produits alimentaires s'accentue et s'accentuera dès que le courant parti des Etats-Unis aura atteint l'Europe. A Londres pour la première fois des possibilités d'accord sont apparues pour les problèmes allemands même sur les Réparations comme j'essaierai de le montrer à Charles Ronsac. A unknown
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Hielscher, Kurt [Prefatory Note By Gerhart Hauptmann]; ( John Clark "Jack" Okey Bookplate)
Picturesque Germany: Architecture And Landscape
Berlin / New York: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth / Orbis Terrarum / Brentano's Publishers 1924. First American Edition . Cloth. Good. 12 1/4" Tall. 303 Pp. Gray Originally Blue Cloth Gilt. Blue Endpapers. Printed In Germany. First American Edition; No Later Printing Indicated. Fine Sepia Reproductions Of Photographs By Hielscher. A Clean Unmarked Copy Inside. Cloth Worn Fraying At Bottom And Top Of Spine Binding Solid. Page 125 Torn Across Without Loss But Almost Entirely Across The Illustrated Pages 125/126. Very Large And Elaborate Bookplate Of Hollywood Art Director Jack Okey Dated 1927 In The Plate; John Clark "Jack" Okey June 3 1889 - January 8 1963 Was An American Art Director. He Was Raised In Los Angeles And Attended The Harvard School For Boys. After Leaving He Was Given Instruction In Art By His Uncle The California Artist J. Bond Francisco. While He Was In His Early 20S He Traveled To Paris With His Friend Stanton Macdonald Wright And Spent Several Years There Studying Art. Around The Time Of His Marriage In 1913 He Became Involved In The Nascent Film Industry In The Los Angeles Area And Was Involved In The Design And Construction Of Some Of The Earliest Studios There. He Continued In The Film Industry As An Art Director Until His Retirement In 1959. In The Mid-1930S He Spent Several Years In England Working For Alexander Korda Designing Studios For Him. After His Return To The United States He Spent The Remainder Of His Active Career Working For Rko. He Was Nominated For Two Academy Awards For Art Direction 1929 And 1944 But His Best Known Film Is "It'S A Wonderful Life". <br/> <br/> Verlag Ernst Wasmuth / Orbis Terrarum / Brentano's Publishers hardcover
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Romain ROLLAND
Lettre autographe datée et signée à propos d'une conférence sur Paul Langevin
Villeneuve Canton de Vaud: S. n. 1937. Fine. S. n. Villeneuve Canton de Vaud 22 Janvier 1937 14 x 21.50 cm une page Autograph letter dated and signed by Romain Rolland 9 lines in black ink written from his Villa Olga in Villeneuve in the Canton of Vaud. Fold marks inherent to postal delivery. ""Villeneuve Vaud Villa Olga 22 janvier 1937. Cher camarade et ami. En hâte je vous adresse ces quelques lignes pour notre réunion de dimanche 24 en l'honneur de notre cher Paul Langevin. Cordialement à vous. Romain Rolland."" Villeneuve Vaud Villa Olga January 22 1937. Dear comrade and friend. In haste I send you these few lines for our meeting on Sunday the 24th in honor of our dear Paul Langevin. Cordially yours. Romain Rolland. S. n. unknown
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Jacques MESRINE
".Enfin cela est un gros poids d'enlevé pour toi. Tu te retrouveras chez toi dans un décor que tu as aimé"" • Autograph love letter dated and signed by Jacques Mesrine written from the prison of Fleury-Mérogis and addressed to his companion Jeanne Schneider for whom he has just found accommodation after his next release
Fleury-Mérogis 1976. Fine. Fleury-Mérogis 21 Septembre 1976 21 x 29.50 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter dated and signed by Jacques Mesrine dated Tuesday September 21 1976 68 lines in blue ink on one recto-verso page addressed to his lover at the time Jeanne Schneider thanks to whom the manuscript ofInstinct de mort was discreetly smuggled out of prison. A horizontal fold inherent to the envelope placement a small tear in the right margin of the letter at the fold level. Jacques Mesrine then incarcerated at Fleury-Mérogis prison arranged with his mother for her to cede upon her departure from the Paris region her Clichy apartment to Jeanne Schneider after his possible provisional release: ""J'ai eu un très agréable parloir avec maman. J'ai au moins une bonne nouvelle à t'annoncer. Pour Clichy c'est d'accord. Comme elle va vivre presque tout le temps à la montagne tu auras l'appartement pour toi. Je paierai le loyer. Elle a tout de suite dit d'accord après mon explication. . Je me doute de ta joie de savoir que tu pourras vivre à Clichy - si près de notre papy. toujours présent de par l'amour que nous avons pour lui. Je suis certain que cette petite nouvelle te remonte le moral."" I had a very pleasant visit with mama. I have at least one good piece of news to tell you. For Clichy it's agreed. Since she's going to live almost all the time in the mountains you'll have the apartment to yourself. I'll pay the rent. She immediately said yes after my explanation. . I can imagine your joy knowing that you'll be able to live in Clichy - so close to our grandpa. always present through the love we have for him. I'm certain this little news will lift your spirits. His daughter Sabrina worries him and he senses that he will have to be severe regarding her behavioral lapses: ""De Sabrina rien ! Il y a une chance pour qu'actuellement elle me prépare un ""douze"" je ne peux t'en parler sur lettre. mais j'ai l'impression que la puce me ment sur certaines choses. elle prend peut-être une route où il va me falloir la plus grande fermeté. J'ai demandé à maman de vérifier si elle va bien à l'école."" Nothing from Sabrina! There's a chance that currently she's preparing a ""twelve"" for me I can't talk about it in a letter. but I have the impression that the kid is lying to me about certain things. she's perhaps taking a path where I'll need the greatest firmness. I asked mama to check if she's doing well in school. News of his ""godson"" the famous robber Jean-Charles Willoquet with whom he organized his escape from La Santé prison where they had met makes him prouder: ""J'ai reçu la photo du plus jeune détenu de France à savoir mon filleul ""Willy Willoquet"" dans sa cour de promenade. c'est émouvant et triste à la fois !"" I received the photo of the youngest prisoner in France namely my godson ""Willy Willoquet"" in his exercise yard. It's moving and sad at the same time! The situation of his young protégé cut off from all contact with his loved ones and the people who love him reminds him of his own personal situation and the indignities of a prisoner's isolated existence: ""Je me demande comment va réagir Martine quand on va lui enlever Enfin c'est le destin qu'elle a choisi et accepté. Elle paie cher le prix de l'amour. Vous le payez toutes ""très cher""."" I wonder how Martine will react when they take him away from her Well it's the destiny she chose and accepted. She pays dearly the price of love. You all pay it ""very dearly"". In order to quickly erase this morose and implacable truth Jacques Mesrine plunges into schoolboy humor and affectionately mocks his lover's physical flaws: ""J'espère que la bonne nouvelle va te rendre ton sourire. eh ! la mémé. boutons sur la gueule. ou pas ! Je t'adore. il ne fallait pas flirter avec ""voyou"" ! C'est lui qui t'as passé cela sic nanou d'amour ton viejo pirate monte à l'abordage de tes lèvres. et. !! tu coules ! "" I hope the good news will bring back yo unknown
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Alphonse DAUDET
Carte de visite autographe adressée au journaliste Philippe Gille
Paris 1889. Fine. Paris 10 Avril 1889 10 x 6 cm une carte de visite une enveloppe Printed visiting card of Alphonse Daudet on which he added these few words for his friend the journalist Philippe Gille regarding his benevolent publicity that he devoted to his wife Julia's recently published work: ""Ma femme te remercie d'avoir si bien et si à propos lancé son petit livre. Moi je te félicite de la jolie tournure que tu as donné à ce très spirituel et bien sensé petit spectacle de présentation. Remercie Magnard pour le ménage. Ton A.D."" My wife thanks you for having so well and so aptly launched her little book. As for me I congratulate you on the nice turn you gave to this very witty and sensible little presentation show. Thank Magnard for the household. Yours A.D. Envelope enclosed with a tear due to the opening of the postal fold a date inscribed in margin on verso of the card probably that of the card's reception. unknown
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Alexandre DUMAS
Lettre autographe signée depuis Florence
s. l. 1841. Fine. s. l. août 1841 13.40 x 20.50 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Alexandre Dumas to the private secretary of the Royal Princess. A page written in black ink autograph address written on verso postal stamps dated 30 August 1841. ""Dearest Enclosed under your care are two letters: one which I beg you to send to Colonel Brahant by Joseph asking him to wait for the reply. The other is for M. Pascal whom you will be good enough to send to your home and who will also give you the answer as soon as possible. These two replies dearest you will send to me. Yours sincerely Dumas I had prepared my work for the 2nd and 17th so that Mr. Pascal would have them both in October. Send me the proofs if you have them printed before I get to Paris.  Aesthetically written later dating from Dumas' exile in Florence. unknown
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Balanchine, George; Maria Tallchief; Frederic Franklin; Nathalie Krassovska; Leon Danielian; Ruthanna Boris; Yurek Lazowski; Dor
Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo Season 1944 - 1945
New York 1945: Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo 1944. First Edition . Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good. B/W Photographs and Color Plates. Large size program inscribed by Frederic Franklin over a full page photograph in mid-step; Nathalie Krassovska over a full page photograph while en point; Leon Danielian over a full-page photograph in mid-leap; Ruthanna Boris Yurek Lazowski Dorothy Etheridge Maria Tallchief Mary Ellen Moylan over their own full page individual photographs; Michel Katcharoff; Nicholas Magallanes; and on a page with Ballanchine at center and Nijinska Fokine Schwezoff and Agnes Demille at corners by George Balanchine as "G. Balanchine". <br/> <br/> Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo unknown
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Taylor, Samuel (Claude Dauphin Autographed Copy)
The Happy Time A Comedy Of Love Based On The Stories By Robert Fontaine Signed By Claude Dauphin
New York: Random House 1950. First Printing . Turquoise Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8 1/4" High. 184 Unmarked Pages. Stated First Printing. "'The Happy Time' Was First Presented By Richard Rodgers And Oscar Hammerstein 2Nd At The Plymouth Theatre New York City On January 24 1950 With The Following Cast: Bibi.Johnny Stewart; Papa.Claude Dauphin "Etc. From The Personal Library Of A Hollywood Publicist; Stamp On Ffep. Cover Edges Faded; Paper Label On Spine Clean And Bright. Dj In Brodart; Not Price Clipped ; Chipped Tips Top And Bottom Of Spine. 1/2" Closed Tear Top Edge Rear. Claude Dauphin Signed His Name On Front Of Dj Between " By Samuel Taylor" And :" A Random House Play". <br/> <br/> Random House hardcover
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Ackerman, Forrest
Famous Forry Fotos - Over 70 Years of Ackermemories Forrest Ackerman
Rockville: James A Rock & Company / Sense of Wonder Press 2001. First Edition . Illustrated Wrappers. Fine. Photographs Throughout with Captions. 117 Pp. Softcover. As New Signed By Ackerman On The Title Page. <br/> <br/> James A Rock & Company / Sense of Wonder Press unknown
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Josephin PELADAN
"Pérégrine & Pérégrin le nouveau roman de Péladan est la peinture d'un dernier amour de celui où les femmes mettent tout leur coeur."" • Please insert manuscript of Peregrine and Peregrine
Paris: S. n. Mercure de France 1932. Fine. S. n. Mercure de France Paris 22 Mai 1932 21.50 x 17.50 cm une feuille Manuscript publisher's slip written by Sar Péladan for the publication of his Pérégrine & Pérégrin at Mercure de France. Fold mark inherent to mailing. Manuscript with corrections. ""Prière d'insérer Pérégrine & Pérégrin le nouveau roman de Péladan est la peinture d'un dernier amour de celui où les femmes mettent tout leur coeur. Cette passion d'automne qui a les ardeurs de l'été s'encadre à chaque chapitre dans un décor nouveau quii varie l'impression des amants. La jalousie & les transes la volupté & ses réactions sont étudiées avec la même crossed out word pénétratiion subtile qui caractérise l'autuer du Vice suprême& la modestie & vanité. C'est la société du Mercure de France qui édite le dixseptième roman de la décadence latine this sentence having been crossed out."" S. n. [Mercure de France] unknown
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Alexandre DUMAS
"je t'écrirai demain pour te redire que je t'aime"" • Autograph letter signed to his lover Marie Richon
1866. Fine. s. d. 1866 8.60 x 11.10 cm une page sur un bifeuillet Probably unpublished autograph letter signed by Alexandre Dumas to his lover Marie Richon. 13 lines on two pages of a bifolium. Usual trace of horizontal fold. ""My darling love Do you think of me Won't you save your evening for me tomorrow . we'll go to the show in any case come as an Arlaisienne sic. I'll write to you tomorrow to tell you again that I love you. My daughter could not have been more touched by your outburst towards her. She adores you - or rather we adore you. Love me."" Nothing is known of this affair with Marie Richon except through a few of Dumas' very impassioned letters. She was obviously sensitive to belles-lettres ""Make me some good verses for my return"" he asked her in antoher letter. Whether she was an actress a woman of the world or a scholar the mystery surrounding this character who inspired a torrid correspondence remains unsolved. In particular he would meet his mysterious conquest at his home on Boulevard Haussmann where he had settled from 1865 onwards. One of Dumas's sentences tells us that she even met Dumas's daughter who lived with her father and endured visits from his lovers "" My daughter could not have been more touched by your outburst towards her. She adores you - or rather we adore you "". We can place this missive probably in the course of 1866 during the preparations for the theatrical adaptation of his novel 'Gabriel Lambert' - he mentions in another letter a reading of the play at the Ambigu-Comique where it premiered on March 16 1866. The last years of Dumas' life did not quench his immeasurable love of women; during this adventurous period he also shared his nights with the feminist and gerontophile Olympe Audouard as well as the famous Adah Isaacs Menken whose portraits at the writer's side were leaked by their indiscreet photographer. Aesthetic and overflowing declaration of love from the great writer addressed to a mysterious lover still unknown to biographers. unknown
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Jean COCTEAU
"Il pleuvait sur les calèches et les gitanes - mais dans le vieux Séville pareil à Pompéi les orangers embaument."" • Autograph letter addressed to a friend named Jean-Pierre describing the atmosphere in Sevillian and the health problems of his patron and great friend Francine Weisweiller
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1954. Fine. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 10 Mai 1954 13.50 x 21 cm une page Autograph letter dated and signed by Jean Cocteau 17 lines in black ink to a friend describing his Sevillian sojourn. Fold marks inherent to being placed in an envelope. Jean Cocteau explains his silence: his patron and very close friend Francine Weisweiller had been ill: ""Excuse ce long silence. mais on parle souvent de toi. Francine a été très très malade à Kitzbühel en Autriche et longue à reprendre des forces."" Excuse this long silence but we often speak of you. Francine was very very ill in Kitzbühel in Austria and slow to regain her strength. But to cut short his bad news he prefers to recount the enchantment of Seville: ""Nous revenons de Séville. Il pleuvait sur les calèches et les gitanes - mais dans le vieux Séville pareil à Pompéi les orangers embaument."" We are returning from Seville. It was raining on the carriages and the gypsies - but in old Seville like Pompeii the orange trees are fragrant. unknown
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Blaise CENDRARS
". je vais attaquer le paquet par le dernier ""cherchant qui dévorer""."" • Autograph letter signed to Luc Estang thanking him for sending his latest works
Paris: S. n. 1950. Fine. S. n. Paris s. d. ca 1950 11.50 x 16 cm une page Autograph letter signed by Blaise Cendrars addressed to Luc Estang 16 lines in blue ink. Fold traces inherent to postal handling. Luc Estang has just sent his latest books to Blaise Cendrars who delights in them in advance and thanks him for this: "". je me réjouis d'avance de vous lire. "" "". I look forward with pleasure to reading you. "" S. n. unknown
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Liane de POUGY
Lettre autographe datée adressée à Salomon Reinach évoquant ses houleuses relations avec l'Amazone Natalie Clifford-Barney : ""J'ai le poil sensible et comme le mousquetaire : bon coeur et mauvais caractère. C'est la 1ère fois que l'amazone m'aura dûrement visée.""
Le Clos-Marie Roscoff Roscoff 1923. Fine. Le Clos-Marie Roscoff Roscoff 2 Septembre 1923 20.50 x 27 cm 1 page recto verso Autograph letter dated from Liane de Pougy to the French archaeologist curator of the Musée de Saint-Germain and professor of art history at the École du Louvre Salomon Reinach 56 lines written in blue ink on one double-sided sheet written from her property at Clos-Marie in Roscoff where the famous courtesan stayed until 1926. A small tear in the right-hand margin of the letter inherent in the enveloping of the missive; another slight tear at the foot without affecting the text. Liane de Pougy marvels at the youthful vigor of Reinach who had just turned 65: ' Many happy returns for your 65 years which find you so young so fresh so green with such playful studious feelings. My friend your youthful morals hold the secret of your physical youth—as Rosa Josepha said one sustains the other one preserves the other—and this seen head-on. ' while magnifying his radiant intelligence: 'To no longer produce but to sit atop the high throne of your trophies formed by all you have wrested from instinct to sacrifice to intellectuality. Why do people always say a well of knowledge instead of a luminous column a sky a sun a star etc.—in short something that makes us lift our heads' She is waiting for her friend and former lover the terrible and unfaithful Natalie Clifford-Barney:  'Natalie plans to come to Clos at the end of September. She has a wound to heal here—time fortunately has already done part of the work! I have sensitive feelings and like a musketeer a good heart but a bad temper. This is the 1st time the amazon has truly aimed at me. Let us speak of it no more'. Liane firmly expresses her wish not to be pitied or consoled for her romantic troubles:  'I have suffered in silence but without resignation. Do not speak of this to Nathanaël. Nathanaël means Philippe Max Jacob claims who lives and works near us in the most fascinating way. '. A beautiful letter by the celebrated courtesan actress and writer Liane de Pougy recounting with restrained candor her romantic disappointments with Natalie Clifford-Barney.  unknown
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Lawrence DURRELL
"Oui telephonez moi quand tu es à Sauve-qui-pleut. "" • Funny autograph business card signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to his lover Jani Brun
Rhodes 1980. Fine. Rhodes s. d. ca 1980 13 x 8 cm une carte postale une enveloppe Suggestive autograph carte de visite signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in brown and mauve felt-tip pens with accompanying envelope. ""dear Buttons. Oui telephonez moi quand tu es à Sauve-qui-pleut et je viendrai te chercher un coeur dessiné. Larry."" After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only in a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus Les citrons acides he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""Tartès house"" his large dwelling surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and vivacious ""Jany"" Janine Brun a thirty-year-old woman from Montpellier of devastating beauty who worked at the Antiquities department of the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we retain precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received vast correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown
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Edouard PEISSON
"Mais je vis la plus grande partie de l'année dans le midi."" • Autograph letter dated and signed to Noël B. de La Mort who wishes to meet him
Aix-en-Provence 1936. Fine. Aix-en-Provence 2 Avril 1936 13 x 21 cm une page une enveloppe Autograph letter dated and signed addressed to the writer and literary critic Noël B. de La Mort pen name of Noël Bayon 15 lines in blue ink. Crease marks inherent to folding for mailing envelope included. Noël B. de La Mort wishes to meet Edouard Peisson but the latter is seldom in Paris: ""Mais je vis la plus grande partie de l'année dans le midi."" But I live most of the year in the south. but he remains at his correspondent's disposal: ""Je suis disposé toutefois à répondre toutes les questions que vous me poserez par lettre."" I am willing however to answer any questions you may ask me by letter. unknown
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Georges DUHAMEL
Carte de visite autographe à en-tête de la l'Académie française
Paris 1955. Fine. Paris 6 Janvier 1955 13.50 x 10.50 cm une carte de visite Printed calling card of academician Georges Duhamel on which he has added on the front these few words for a certain Peillard notably about his health problems: ""Mon cher Peillard Je vous renvoie sans attendre les épreuve reçues au dernier courrier. Je viens de passer dans mon lit presque tout le temps des fêtes. J'ai beaucoup souffert d'une de ces crises de rhumatisme qui m'empêchent pour l'instant de poser le pied par terre et même de goûter le repos du lit. Je me relève depuis hier ; mais je ne sortirai pas avant la semaine prochaine. Trouvez ici mes voeux les plus cordiaux pour madame Peillard et vous-même. Ma femme me dit de joindre ses voeux aux miens. Je le fais. A bientôt ! A vous de grand coeur. GDuhamel."" ""My dear Peillard I return without delay the proofs received in the last post. I have just spent almost all the holiday time in my bed. I have suffered greatly from one of those rheumatic attacks that prevent me at the moment from setting foot on the ground and even from enjoying the rest of bed. I am getting up since yesterday; but I will not go out before next week. Please find here my most cordial wishes for Madame Peillard and yourself. My wife tells me to join her wishes to mine. I do so. See you soon! Yours wholeheartedly. GDuhamel."" Light worming without consequence at the head of the front of the card. unknown
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Alphonse KARR
Carte de visite autographe signée au librettiste et journaliste Philipe Gille
s. l. 1884. Fine. s. l. Mai 1884 12.50 x 9 cm une page une enveloppe Autograph signed visiting card by Alphonse Karr on which he has added recto verso a few words for the attention of journalist and librettist Philippe Gille 36 lines in purple ink. Envelope included. Alphonse Karr solicits his friend the journalist Philippe Gille to allow him to deliver a few articles in order to remedy his pecuniary problems and to come to the aid of his family. unknown
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Guy de MAUPASSANT - (Emile ZOLA)
"Zola me transmet votre aimable article"" • Autograph letter signed to the critic Vittorio Pica
Étretat: Grasset 1883. Fine. Grasset Étretat s. d. circa 1883 11 x 17.10 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by Guy de Maupassant to the critic Vittorio Pica. 10 lines in black ink on one page of a bifolium. Horizontal fold and very light shadow over 2mm on the upper edge of the sheet. Charming note from Maupassant from Etretat thanking Vittorio Pica for a laudatory review published in the Italian literary magazine Fantasio. Pica would devote several studies to Maupassant's masterworks in this magazine including Mademoiselle Fifi Pot-Bouille Une Vie and Bel-Ami. ""Monsieur et cher Confrère Zola me transmet votre aimable article du Fantasio. Il m'a fait le plus grand plaisir ; et je vous prie de recevoir avec mes vifs remerciements l'expression de mon confraternel dévouement et de toute ma sympathie"". An art critic of Neapolitan origin Pica took an early interest in French naturalist and symbolist movements: ""Curious about all avant-garde movements he had first concerned himself with the naturalists - he maintained close relations with Maupassant Huysmans and Zola - then he became interested in the symbolists particularly Mallarmé and Verlaine to whom he devoted studies of admirable accuracy"" Petralia Bibliographie de Rimbaud en Italie cit. p. 37. A contributor to the most prestigious national and international magazines of modernist tendency he was one of the first founders of the Venice Biennale of which he would be secretary general from 1920 to 1926. Precious response from the writer with his distinctive signature addressed to an admirer of his work. Grasset unknown
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Henri MICHAUX
"assez d'y avoir vécu un an et d'en avoir fait un livre"" • Autograph letter signed twice and probably addressed to Henri Parisot about an article for his magazine Les quatre vents and concerning the Equator
s. l.: S. n. 1945. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. ca 1945 9 x 13.50 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter signed by Henri Michaux in two parts 45 lines in black ink on recto and in pencil on verso written over two days Sunday and Monday on bristol paper. Transverse fold in right margin of the bristol. Deletions and corrections in black ink on the recto of the letter Henri Michaux refuses what is asked of him: ""Now you're asking me for 20"" pages. ""It's impossible. I've done 6 which represent 7 or 8 of your magazine. I can do 2 more it seems to me so 10 More I'll think about it. But I cannot promise them to you at all."" and asks some questions to his correspondent: ""You still haven't told me the writers who are collaborating on the 1st issue anthology section. I'm curious and worried about it."" On the verso the writer has completed his work: ""And well there you have it I have 10 pages. but I can no longer write anything about this country - enough to have lived there a year"" in 1928 ""and to have made a book from it. So don't ask me for more. Just having to transcribe my letter ! gives me a headache. In me it refuses."" S. n. unknown
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COLETTE
"Je vous assure que je n'ai rien signé avant 1904. Et pour cause M. Willy y voyait mille inconvénients."" • Autograph letter addressed to his friend Jean-Joseph Renaud concerning his early career bullied by his husband Willy
Paris 1948. Fine. Paris 18 Octobre 1948 21 x 13.50 cm Une page une enveloppe Autograph note signed by Colette addressed to her friend Jean-Joseph Renaud on her famous blue letter paper 9 lines in black ink concerning her difficult beginnings in literature. Crease mark inherent to postal delivery envelope included. Taking advantage of a question from her correspondent Colette recalls the first works of her career when her husband Willy a great socialite who employed many talented ghostwriters such as Jean de Tinan Curnonsky Paul-Jean Toulet and Tristan Bernard to write his books appropriated her productions: ""From the midst of a slow storm of work I assure you that I signed nothing before 1904. And for good reason M. Willy saw a thousand drawbacks to it. Colette also praises the works of her friend Jean-Joseph Renaud: ""I read you faithfully and with great pleasure. Quickly your memoirs!"" Jean-Joseph Renaud was a fencer and writer who often published under the pen names Jean Carmant and Jean Cassard. A brief but evocative letter in which Colette speaks of the struggle of women writers for recognition in the literary world monopolized by men. unknown
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Tancrede de VISAN
Rien ne pouvait me causer plus de joie que ces trois jacinthes. • Bristol signed autograph thanking his pen pal for sending flowers
Lyon 1938. Fine. Lyon 5 Avril 1938 14 x 10.50 cm un bristol recto verso une enveloppe Autograph card dated and signed by Tancrède de Visan 15 lines in violet ink on Nouvelliste de Lyon letterhead recto and verso. Envelope included. Touched by the floral attention shown by his correspondent Tancrède de Visan addresses these few words of gratitude to Joseph Tauran-Lille: ""Nothing could bring me greater joy than these three hyacinths - white pink and violet - whose tender harmonies illuminate my drawing room while perfuming it"". unknown
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Andre ABBAL
"je suis certain maintenant que mon Tarn et Garonne ne reviendra pas à l'atelier."" • Autograph letter signed about one of his works
Paris 1941. Fine. Paris s. d. ca 1941 14 x 15.50 cm une page sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by sculptor André Abbal 13 lines in black ink on a double sheet. Traces of folding inherent to postal dispatch. The sculptor discusses his various productions: ""I am now certain that my Tarn et Garonne will not return to the workshop. With peace of mind on this front I will work hard on other things that interest me greatly."" André Abbal student of Alexandre Falguière is renowned for his direct-carved stone sculptures. unknown
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Ernest RENAN
"vous entretenir de quelques affaires très importantes pour le Collège de France et qui sont assez pressées."" • Autograph letter dated and signed to Louis Liard concerning the Collège de France
Bellevue Meudon 1884. Fine. Bellevue Meudon 17 Octobre 1884 13 x 20.50 cm une page sur un double feuillet Autograph letter dated and signed by Ernest Renan to Louis Liard then director of higher education at the Ministry of Public Instruction 14 lines in black ink and on letterhead of the Collège de France of which he has been administrator since the previous year. Postal fold mark inherent to mailing a small tear at the head of the letter at the date level. Ernest Renan requests a meeting in order to discuss with his correspondent the future of the Collège de France: ""Oserai-je vous prier de me fixer l'heure et le jour où je pourrai sans vous déranger vous entretenir de quelques affaires très importantes pour le Collège de France et qui sont assez pressées ."" ""Dare I ask you to set the time and day when I could without disturbing you discuss with you some very important matters for the Collège de France which are rather urgent."" Louis Liard noted in pencil in the upper left corner of the letter: La 1ere lettre que j'ai reçu de Renan. The first letter I received from Renan. unknown
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COLETTE
"Si je n'ai plus de chaleur je ne peux plus travailler. je ne puis travailler que si j'ai chaud si nous avons chaud mon arthrite de la hanche et moi."" • Signed autograph letter complaining about the war and its corollaries
Paris 1941. Fine. Paris s. d. ca 1941 18 x 22.50 cm Une page recto verso Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her ""dear sorcerer"" who supplies her with raw materials during these times of shortage. Handwritten letter on her famous blue letterhead 31 lines in black ink. Traces of folding inherent to postal dispatch a date has been inscribed in the upper right margin of the letter in pencil: ""6/2/41."" Colette during these times of want lacks everything and particularly coal for heating: ""I found no answer around me. My coal from last year melts like sugar. If I no longer have heat I can no longer work because like old Richepin I can only work if I am warm if we are warm my hip arthritis and I."" To ward off the sadness and darkness of this terrible period Colette prefers to employ humor: "". if you know where I could buy coal for my small boiler. I know this is perfectly an indecent question. But you signed: sorcerer of all kinds. The electric bulb saves my life and thoughts every day. Without it I would be forced to sign as the refrigerated scribbler."" Instructive autograph letter by Colette illustrating the privations linked to the war and German occupation that generated the Black Market. unknown
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Paine, Albert Bigelow [signed By Author and By Lillian Gish]
Life and Lillian Gish
New York: The Macmillan Company 1932. First Edition . Cloth. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Photographs. 303 Pp. Biography By A Friend And Fan A Writer Noted For His 1912 Biography Of Twain. Signed On Title Page By Lillian Gish And Also By Albert Bigelow Paine; Another Ownership Signature Of A Man With A Connection To Her Sister Dorothy Gish This Being Her Copy Although Not Signed By Her. Covers Quite Worn Frayed At Top And Bottom Of Spine Dampstaining To Covers With A Very Slight Waviness At Bottom Of Last 50 Pages. Lacking The Scarce Dust Jacket. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
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Claude FARRERE
"M.M. possède à peu près vingt lettre de moi. une au moins dont je me souviens et qui est une profession de sadisme. Je n'en dors plus."""" • Autograph letter signed to his friend Pierre Louÿs about his feminine successes sometimes playing tricks on him
Grenade Granada 1908. Fine. Grenade Granada 1908 20.50 x 27 cm huit pages sur deux doubles feuillets une enveloppe Humorous autograph letter signed by Claude Farrère then on a Mediterranean cruise and posted from the Hotel Washington Irving in Granada 8 pages on two double sheets in which he notably recounts his exploits with the fairer sex. Fold marks inherent to postal handling envelope included. Claude Farrère leaving Tangier for Granada via Gibraltar humorously narrates his latest feminine conquest and his rivalry with another suitor: ""Yesterday morning as the Cassini was about to leave Tangier - where I had a delicious flirtation with a young girl!! . We spotted a human being on the quarterdeck. which human being was screaming like a suckling pig caught by the tail in a door. It was my successor. Suppose this good man had had less powerful lungs: we would not have heard him."" He thanks Pierre Louÿs for his latest letter to which he hastens to respond: ""I picked up your letter yesterday. And you see I don't wait twenty-four hours to answer you. I note indeed that as soon as one is away more than fifteen days all conversation becomes impossible. Judge for yourself!!!"" while clarifying things about the too numerous women he has seduced to the point that Pierre Louÿs can no longer keep track: ""I would have sworn on my life that I had narrated to you in detail my adventure with Mlle M.; I must have searched a good hour in my memories for what the initials CG could represent!!! That's where we stand. It's maddening."" But Claude Farrère sometimes exposes himself to the risks of his abundant sentimental victories and ironically boasts of his setbacks: ""M.M. possesses about twenty letters from me. at least one that I remember and which is a profession of sadism. I no longer sleep. Trust pretty flirtatious persons after that who write you delicate horrors to procure prose for posthumous publication!!!"" He also details for him in a playful and epic manner his last evening aboard the Cassini and the marks of sympathy he received: ""My departure from the Cassini was the most perfectly grotesque thing on earth and even of the five oceans. Toasts effusions feasts. R. solemnly informs me that I am 'warmly' proposed for the cross by him and the admiral. I who knew it classic and profound stupefaction. Thereupon the launch comes alongside my suitcases embark I follow them. the crew had been sleeping for two hours theoretically. But barely does the launch push off savage howling clamors vivats hurrahs. Without saying anything all these good people had patiently waited for it to be time to shout. Naturally I began to cry. Finally total idiocy."" He concludes this missive by enumerating the Andalusian cities he will visit: ""I leave the day after tomorrow for Seville then Córdoba and Toledo."" unknown
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Julien GRACQ
"Pourquoi la littérature. a-t-elle tant de mal au contraire à considérer la réalité si le besoin s'en fait sortir"" • Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq addressed to his close friend and monographer Ariel Denis about his reading of James Joyce's Ulysses
Sion-sur-l'Océan Sion-sur-l'Océan 1985. Fine. Sion-sur-l'Océan Sion-sur-l'Océan 13 Août ca 1985 15 x 10 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq 19 lines in black ink addressed to his friend and monographer Ariel Denis written from his Vendée retreat on the verso of a photographic reproduction showing the Sion-sur-Océan coast from aerial view. Julien Gracq discusses his reading of Joyce and compares the Irish landscapes and climate to those of Vendée : ""Ici aucune trace des brumes d'Irlande il fait inaltérablement beau sans même un orage."" Here no trace of Irish mists the weather is unalterably beautiful without even a storm. and inquires about his friend's professional future : ""Comment s'arrangent vos perspectives universitaires pour l'année à venir Problème qui je sais assombrit toujours un peu vos fins de vacances et dont j'espère qu'il va se régler à votre satisfaction."" How are your university prospects working out for the coming year A problem which I know always casts a slight shadow over your vacation endings and which I hope will be resolved to your satisfaction. unknown
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Claude FARRERE
"Perdez la funeste habitude de me voir tué chaque fois qu'on parle l'épée à l'entour. C'est au contraire moi qui tuerai les autres."" • Funny autograph letter signed to his friend Pierre Louÿs
Toulon 1908. Fine. Toulon 20 Juillet 1908 13.50 x 21.50 cm deux pages et demie sur un double feuillet une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Claude Farrère then serving in the military 47 lines in blue ink written from Toulon to his friend Pierre Louÿs. Fold marks inherent to mailing envelope included. The soldier Claude Farrère thanks his friend for defending him during a dispute opposing him to a certain Monsieur B even though it was hardly worth devoting so much importance to him: ""Monsieur B read in some Annales that his fierce enemy was busy waging war in Safi against the Muslims. By incredible misfortune it happened that I had returned from there. His stupor was then so great that he lost his head."" ""Now I will never tell you to what extent I was moved by your role and by V.'s role in the whole affair."" Confident in his qualities as a fencer and marksman Claude Farrère allows himself this gentle and humorous jibe at his friend and seeks to reassure him at the risk of falling into anachronism: ""Lose the disastrous habit of seeing me killed each time someone speaks of swords around. On the contrary it is I who will kill the others. I do a great deal of fencing now. And I shoot the pistol like the late William Tell. Therefore be quiet. There. When shall we meet"" unknown
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Maurice LEBLANC
Lettre autographe signée adressée à un ami prenommé Louis le chargeant de deux démarches à effectuer pour lui
s. l. 1905. Fine. s. l. s. d. ca 1905 11.50 x 18 cm 5 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Maurice Leblanc to a friend from Rouen named Louis asking him to perform several services as he lacks the time to handle them himself. Maurice Leblanc entrusts his friend with two commissions: first to collect some furniture reserved by one of his friends at an antique dealer's: ""Go to a man named Chassaigne antique dealer 20 rue St Romain.He sold 6 chairs to the Prats two months ago. . apparently he refused to accept a deposit. No response. Let him say frankly that he has sold everything. The bench was for me 40 francs and I would very much like to have it."" the second concerning an administrative matter: ""Go to the registry of the civil court. and request an extract of my birth certificate and an extract of my parents' death certificates. It's for a marriage."" unknown
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Joris-Karl HUYSMANS
Carte autographe signée rectifiant une erreur d'adresse pour son correspondant
s. l. 1895. Fine. s. l. s. d. ca 1895 11.50 x 9 cm une carte recto Autograph card signed 7 lines in black ink. A stain in the left margin affecting the first letter of the third line. In this note Huysmans questions the address of Dom Besse Benedictine monk French writer and historian which he had previously communicated to his correspondent and for which he seems to have made an error. As a precaution he details it to him again. unknown
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Henri BARBUSSE
Belle lettre autographe adressée à son amour et évoquant ses pérégrinations pour s'immiscer dans la vie politique des Balkans notamment en Roumanie : ""Mon séjour en Roumanie a été extrêmement rempli et a eu une très grande répercussion : campagnes de journaux incidents à la chambre manifestations populaires et qq criailleries fascistes etc.""
s. l.: S. n. 1925. Fine. S. n. s. l. 25 Novembre 1925 14.50 x 19.50 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Autograph letter dated and signed by Henri Barbusse addressed to a female friend 32 lines written in black ink from the steamship Vaporul Regele Caroli. Folds inherent to mailing letterhead paper of the Romanian maritime services and the Vaporul Regele Caroli. While on a cruise from Constanza to Constantinople Henri Barbusse languishes in the absence of the woman he loves: ""Pendant tout le voyage qui en est à peu près à la moitié je n'ai cessé de penser à toi ma belle et je viens à toi en ce moment à travers les distances et les préoccupations de toutes sortes comme à ma vérité essentielle et suprême comme partout et comme toujours."" Throughout the entire journey which is about halfway through I have not stopped thinking of you my beautiful one and I come to you at this moment across distances and preoccupations of all kinds as to my essential and supreme truth as everywhere and as always. He lists the stages of his return journey from Constantinople through the Balkans then Europe: ""Je resterai deux trois jours à Constantinople puis quatre jours à Sofia et quatre jours à Belgrade. puis deux jours à Budapest Vienne et Paris."" I will stay two or three days in Constantinople then four days in Sofia and four days in Belgrade. then two days in Budapest Vienna and Paris. and worries about not having received news from his love: ""Je n'ai pas reçu de lettre de toi par le canal que je t'avais indiqué. Adresse moi un mot pour me dire comment tu vas."" I have not received a letter from you through the channel I had indicated to you. Send me a word to tell me how you are. He shows himself very satisfied with the time he spent in Romania politically speaking: ""Mon séjour en Roumanie a été extrêmement rempli et a eu une très grande répercussion : campagnes de journaux incidents à la chambre mainfestations populaires et qq criailleries fascistes etc. je te raconterai tout cela en détail."" My stay in Romania was extremely full and had a very great impact: newspaper campaigns incidents in the chamber popular demonstrations and some fascist squawking etc. I will tell you all this in detail. S. n. unknown
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Violette LEDUC
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Adriana Salem
Saint-Cirq-Lapopie 1956. Fine. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie s. d. ca 1956 13 x 21 cm une page et demie sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed to Adriana probably Adriana Salem 21 lines in blue ink. Folding inherent to mailing and small marginal lacks due to removal of the sheet. Thank-you letter sent from her Versailles home: ""J'ai bien reçu la boîte de gâteaux merci de tout mon coeur comme c'est gentil."" ""I received the box of cakes thank you with all my heart how kind."" Violette Leduc being mentally ill she informs her correspondent of her medical treatment program: ""Simone de Beauvoir m'emmenera à la Vallée aux Loups dans la clinique du Dr Le Savoureux mais Diatkine me reverra avant ici c'est long enfin si j'en sors ! "" ""Simone de Beauvoir will take me to Vallée aux Loups to Dr Le Savoureux's clinic but Diatkine will see me again before that here it's long finally if I get out of it!"" and asks for her news. Adriana Salem was the daughter of Frederic Gentili di Giuseppe representative of the Italian Minister of Finance in Paris and great collector of Italian Renaissance paintings. unknown
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Marcel PROUST
Lettre autographe signée à Maurice de Fleury à propos de ses pastiches • Signed Autograph Letter Regarding His Pastiche
s. l. 1908. Fine. s. l. s. d. 1908 ou 1919 11.60 x 17.80 cm 4 pages sur un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust to his friend Maurice de Fleury a psychiatrist and famed man of letters close to Émile Zola who wrote a collection of short stories as well as various medical works on neurasthenia insomnia epilepsy Chiara Carraro Philip Kolb. Four pages written in black on a bifolium with ""Island Mill"" watermark and framed in black. Usual traces of folds. Published in Kolb VIII no. 32 p. 74-75. Superb letter extolling the merits of literary pastiche by one of the greatest writers of the genre: Marcel Proust. The writing of this letter may coincide with the publication of Proust's series of pastiches on the Lemoine Affair a scam set up by a French engineer of that name who claimed to be able to make genuine diamonds. The articles were printed on the front page of the literary supplement of 'Le Figaro' between 1908 and 1909 or date from its publication in volume under the title 'Pastiches et mélanges' in 1919. The autograph letter is presented in a midnight blue half morocco chemise with marbled paper boards beige suede lined pastedowns and a slipcase edged with the same morocco. Proust warmly thanks his correspondent Maurice de Fleury whom he describes as a ""scholar and writer"" for his favorable reception of his ""little pastiches"": ""Your double merit should make you doubly severe: and you excuse pastiche that inferior genre!"" Votre double mérite devrait vous rendre doublement sévère : et vous excusez le pastiche ce genre inférieur ! acknowledging with irony the still precarious place of this unusual genre although popular during Proust's lifetime. Pastiche was perceived more as a stylistic musing or even a student exercise than a true creation worthy of literary praise. Yet here the writer considers it here a refreshing addition to the strict hierarchy of genres that still prevailed: ""Handled however by your hands more beautiful than mine it seems to me that it could perhaps become a more discreet more fragile and more elegant form of literary criticism. Very proud minds could devote themselves to it and very fine minds like yours very attached to greatness seriousness duty as wise could take pleasure in it and follow these games."" Manié pourtant par vos mains plus belles que les miennes il me semble qu'il pourrait peut-être devenir comme une forme indirecte plus discrète plus frêle et plus élégante de critique littéraire. Des esprits très fiers pourraient s'y adonner et des esprits très fins. comme le vôtre très attraché par la grandeur le sérieux le devoir aussi sage pourrait s'y plaire suivre ces jeux. With these words Proust asserts the interest of 'critical pastiche' which was already well established and acted as an empirical analysis of an author's style. Since his years as a student in Condorcet the writer had regularly indulged in this activity with according to him varying degrees of success: ""I have also sometimes made pastiches of medical literature! these writings are now lost If I could have found them again or started them again but all that is too far away I would have published them if I had known that you read this for fun. I don't need to tell you that considered inimitable you are not among the authors I pastiched. But . others are less perfect and combined some very interesting qualities with small flaws that could be imitated and caricatured."" J'ai été aussi quelques fois à faire des pastiches de littérature médicale ! Si j'avais pu les retrouver ou les recommencer mais tout cela est trop loin je les aurais publiés si j'avais su que vous lisiez cela pour vous amuser. Je n'ai pas besoin de vous dire que jugé inimitable vous n'y figurez pas. Mais . d'autres sont moins parfaits et joignaient à des qualités bien intéressantes des petits défauts dont l'imitation et la caricature étaient possibles. Pastiche had many virtues for hardcover
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Pierre LOUS
Bristol autographe signé adressé à Henri Davray à propos de frais inhérents à une traduction
Paris 1960. Fine. Paris s. d. ca 1960 14 x 9 cm un bristol recto verso une enveloppe Autograph signed postcard from Pierre Louÿs addressed to Henri Davray 14 lines in purple ink envelope included. ""Il n'a jamais été question entre nous de ""fonds à déposer"" pour cette traduction. Vous savez comment se font mes éditions au Mercure. Si votre traducteur est bon et s'il veut se hâter je prends tout à ma charge. Mais il faudrait que je fusse fixé assez vite sur ce point car on me presse d'autre part. Je vous dirai qui.Votre Pierre Louÿs."" There has never been any question between us of ""funds to deposit"" for this translation. You know how my editions at Mercure are done. If your translator is good and wants to hurry I'll take everything on myself. But I would need to be settled quite quickly on this point because I am being pressed from elsewhere. I will tell you who. Yours Pierre Louÿs. unknown
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Honore de BALZAC
Lettre autographe signée après sa première rencontre avec Madame Hanska
s. l. Neuchâtel 1833. Fine. s. l. • Neuchâtel 29 septembre 1833 13.40 x 21.10 cm une page sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Honoré de Balzac addressed to his friend the writer Charles de Bernard. One page written in black ink on a bifolium. On the verso of the second leaf appears the address of the recipient Charles de Bernard du Grail written in Balzac’s hand along with postal stamps and the seal bearing the arms of the Balzac d’Entraigues family which the author had appropriated. A few minor holes not affecting the text; fold marks as usual from mailing. Published in his correspondence Paris Calmann Lévy 1876 CXIV pp. 252–253. Balzac wrote this letter four days after his very first meeting — and first kiss — with Madame Hanska in Neuchâtel following many months of epistolary correspondence. «J’ai été très heureux ici. Je suis très content de ce que j’ai vu le pays est délicieux; mais vous savez que Jupiter a deux tonneaux et que les dieux n’ont point de faveurs qui soient pures.» ""I have been very happy here. I am most pleased with what I have seen; the country is delightful. But you know that Jupiter has two jars and the gods grant no favours that are untainted."" Two years after receiving the first letter from “the Stranger” Éveline Rzewuska a lovestruck Balzac left Paris to join her in Switzerland. His brief stop in Besançon ostensibly a convenient detour served as a polite pretext for his departure from the capital—where he took the opportunity to visit his correspondent Charles de Bernard. «Il me semble que je vous ai bien peu remercié de la bonne journée que vous m’avez donnée; mais j’espère vous prouver que je ne suis point un ingrat. À mercredi donc; vous devez penser que j’aurai bien du plaisir à vous revoir vous qui avez fait que mon voyage à Besançon n’a pas été inutile et que j’y ai trouvé du plaisir». “I fear I thanked you all too little for the delightful day you gave me; but I hope to prove that I am not ungrateful. Until Wednesday then — you must know how much I look forward to seeing you again you who ensured that my journey to Besançon was not in vain and even brought me joy.” After a day in Besançon and a chaotic journey by mail coach Balzac finally met his beloved — though regrettably in the company of her husband Count Hanski. Seizing upon the Count’s absence the writer stole a long-awaited kiss with Madame Hanska on an ancient stone bench upon the hill of Crêt. In the rapture of their first encounter he could not help but invoke La Fontaine’s ominous fable in his letter: «mais vous savez que Jupiter a deux tonneaux et que les dieux n’ont point de faveurs qui soient pures». “but you know that Jupiter has two jars and the gods offer no favours untainted.” His love affair with Madame Hanska would prove far from serene — as Gonzague Saint Bris aptly summed it up: “eighteen years of love sixteen of waiting two of happiness and six months of marriage.” Neuchâtel would remain a powerful emblem of their union recurring in some sixty of their letters. “Neuchâtel is like the white lily” he wrote to her “pure with a penetrating fragrance — youth freshness brilliance hope happiness glimpsed.” De Bernard who had previously arranged his journey to Switzerland was once again tasked with organising Balzac’s return: «J’aurai le plaisir de vous revoir mercredi 2 octobre. Voulez-vous avoir l’obligeance de me retenir une place à la malle pour Paris». “I shall have the pleasure of seeing you again on Wednesday 2 October. Would you be so kind as to reserve me a place in the mail coach to Paris” The journey separating him once again from his beloved proved wretched:  “The mail coach was fully booked for six days so my friend from Besançon Charles de Bernard was unable to secure me a place. I was thus obliged to travel on the roof of a diligence in the company of five Swiss from the canton of Vaud who treated me bodily like livestock bound for market and unknown
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Violette LEDUC
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Adriana Salem à propos de ses promenades à Saint-Cirq-Lapopie dans le Quercy
Saint-Cirq-Lapopie 1960. Fine. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie s. d. ca 1960 16 x 22 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed to Adriana probably Adriana Salem 20 lines in blue ink. Fold marks inherent to postal handling and small marginal losses due to removal of the leaf. Violette Leduc is still in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie: "". bloquée par les belles choses cherchées et trouvées dans la nature : des grosses des vieilles pierres de couleurs des fossiles"" "". blocked by the beautiful things sought and found in nature: big old colored stones fossils"" and cheerfully enjoys her walks in the open countryside: ""J'ai marché des kilomètres et des kilomètres sous la pluie sous l'orage ."" ""I walked kilometers and kilometers in the rain in the storm ."" She worries about having everything she has gathered during her wanderings transported to Paris: "". j'ai porté ces chargements. Maintenant je me demande comment les expédier. Il y en a beaucoup. L'idée que tout arriverait en miettes me désole vous le comprendrez."" "". I carried these loads. Now I wonder how to ship them. There are many. The idea that everything would arrive in pieces dismays me you will understand."" unknown
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Francois MAURIAC
"Mais n'allez pas croire que le T.R. soit une revue catholique."" • Autograph letter dated and signed addressed to Abbé Casy Rivière about literary life and in particular the magazine La Table Ronde
Paris: S. n. 1930. Fine. S. n. Paris s. d. ca 1930 14 x 21.50 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter by François Mauriac signed with his initials 28 lines in blue ink on letterhead from his Parisian residence on avenue Théophile Gautier addressed to Abbé Casy Rivière. Fold mark inherent to envelope insertion. François Mauriac discusses his upcoming summer travels: "". je pars le 20 en auto pour les Pyrénées et ne serai à Malagar que vers le 1 sept. Regrets ! ."" "". I leave on the 20th by car for the Pyrenees and will only be at Malagar around September 1st. Regrets! ."" but also literary activity and certain religious allegiances attributed to the magazine La Table ronde: ""Le Léautaud a paru pendant mon séjour à Florence et je l'ai beaucoup regretté. Cela ne se renouvellera plus. Mais n'allez pas croire que le T.R. soit une revue catholique. Je suis à peu près le seul à l'être dans la rédaction. Et c'est bien pourquoi je ne souhaite nullement qu'un vicaire la lise."" ""Léautaud was published during my stay in Florence and I greatly regretted it. This will not happen again. But don't think that T.R. is a Catholic magazine. I am about the only one to be so on the editorial staff. And that's exactly why I do not wish at all for a vicar to read it."" He ends the missive with this revelation concerning his productivity as a vacationer: ""Je lutte désespérément pour mon travail personnel contre tout ce qui m'en détourne surtout lorsque je suis loin de Paris."" ""I desperately struggle for my personal work against everything that distracts me from it especially when I am away from Paris."" S. n. unknown
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Donatien Alphonse Francois de SADE
""J'éprouve . un dégoût un abattement total"" • Letter from the Marquis de Sade from the Charenton Asylum
Charenton 1801. Fine. Charenton 1801 15 x 22.80 cm un feuillet composé deux papiers encollés Original autograph letter by the Marquis de Sade consists of 27 lines of relatively tight handwriting. Most likely written to his wife as evidenced by the letter's origin from Sade's family. The letter is physically composed of two glued pieces of paper. On the verso the Marquis wrote 19 lines and scrupulously crossed them out - a few words and letters are still quite visible. Cited in Maurice Lever's biography 'Donatien Alphonse François marquis de Sade' Paris Fayard 1991 p. 631. On March 7 1801 Armand de Sade the Marquis's son received a letter from the Minister of Police Joseph Fouché notifying him that his father had been arrested yesterday and that handwritten pages from the novel 'La nouvelle Justine' Justine or the Misfortunes of Virtue had been found on his person: “Nevertheless sensitive to your request for leniency and concerned to preserve the honor of your name I have decided to have your father transferred to the Charenton nursing home.”. It should be noted that for Fouché Charenton an insane asylum was nothing more than a nursing home a prison. It should not be forgotten that a large proportion of the population of these asylums did not fit into the social and moral field and psychiatry has long had no other aim than to normalize to make them fit for social life. Contrary to what has been said Sade fits in perfectly. However as soon as he entered Charenton Sade's attitude led to his expulsion to Bicêtre the Bastille of scoundrels but his family succeeded in getting him back into the Charenton asylum. Charenton was not only the Marquis de Sade's last incarceration but also the last place he lived in where he died in 1814. The 19 lines scrupulously crossed out on the back of the leaf reveal a few words or letters; in this respect we can conjecture that it's a coded message which Sade was quite fond of for if censorship had been behind these erasures absolutely everything would have been yet the message clearly shows that almost everything has been conscientiously crossed out apart from a few words or letters. We can still make out a few of them: 'Nécessaire' 'à tous' 'ger' 'ue' 'quel' 'je trouve' 'de'. As for the letter itself it is remarkable for the homogeneity of its message. It is a lengthy complaint describing the physical ailments Sade has suffered. It is an account of the sum total of the symptoms that overwhelm the writer. In a hyperbolic style using among other figures of speech adverbs of intensity si tel très. Sade methodically spells out the violent pains his body is suffering with the whole of this violence constituting a system a structure in which all the parts are linked. In the writer's correspondence it can be said that each time he found himself incarcerated his letters mention uncontrollable physical attacks although we know of no other letter so uniform and systematic.The pain originates in the pit of the stomach radiating out to the periphery: head eyes legs all converging on vertigo loss of balance. .because that's what it's all about: Sade isn't suffering from any illness he's besieged by anguish whose ultimate meaning is vertigo the wavering of a reality from which his freedom to live as he pleases his freedom of movement and his name have been taken away. The loss of these fundamental elements of his existence sends Sade in turmoil. In addition and as regards the formation of these particular symtoms if we consider that the fulfillment of a certain sexual sadism is necessary to him the deprivation of this satisfaction turns this sadistic drive on itself which becomes masochistic. The impossibility of externalizing the destructiveness that inhabits him even if only through willpower makes his own body the tortured seat with Sade becoming both agent and victim of his own sadism. Remarkable letter by the Marquis de Sade written unknown
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Jean COCTEAU
"Il m'est encore impossible d'entrer dans les détails d'un long drame intime sans mettre en cause certaines personnes qui sont davantage des victimes du destin que véritablement responsables. Cette longue et triste histoire m'oblige à vivre loin de ce Santo Sospir dont les murs témoignent d'une amitié de quatorze ans."" • Autograph letter to a friend about a broken friendship and his plans to decorate the chapel of Our Lady of Jerusalem in Fréjus
Fréjus 1963. Fine. Fréjus 17 Avril 1963 21.50 x 27.50 cm une page Autograph letter dated and signed by Jean Cocteau 20 lines in black ink on letterhead of the committee for the edification of the chapel of Notre-Dame de Jérusalem de Fréjus. Fold marks inherent to postal dispatch one tear in left margin of the letter at the level of the fold. Jean Cocteau offers profuse apologies while acknowledging mitigating circumstances regarding the emotional burden overwhelming him: ""J'accepte vos reproches avec beaucoup de honte. Mais si je pouvais vous raconter la période que je traverse votre coeur me comprendrait et m'absoudrait."" ""I accept your reproaches with great shame. But if I could tell you about the period I am going through your heart would understand and absolve me."" due to a recently deceased friendship about which he does not wish to reveal more: ""N'en parlons plus et priez pour moi."" ""Let us speak no more of it and pray for me."" Jean Cocteau prefers to discuss his projects: ""Actuellement je me consacre à mon travail de la chapelle du Saint-Sépulcre. Quand je l'aurai construite peinte et rendue digne des chevaliers de Jérusalem je me remettrait sic peut-être à écrire."" ""Currently I am devoting myself to my work on the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre. When I have built it painted it and made it worthy of the knights of Jerusalem I will perhaps start writing again."" and the prospects that delight him: ""Il est probable que je resterais après Pâques à Fréjus où les organisateurs m'offrent une petite villa."" ""It is likely that I will remain after Easter in Fréjus where the organizers are offering me a small villa."" unknown
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Felicien CHAMPSAUR
Lettre autographe adressée à un ami écrivain à propos notamment de la prochaine parution de son ouvrage l'Orgie latine chez Fasquelle
Paris 1903. Fine. Paris s. d. ca 1903 13 x 21 cm 4 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter dated and signed by Félicien Champsaur approximately 75 lines in pink ink addressed to a writer friend from his Parisian residence on rue Ballu. Fold marks inherent to mailing tears to right margins of the letter at fold level. Félicien Champsaur apologizes for his late response: ""Ne m'en veuillez pas et pardonnez définitivement à un confrère harcelé par tous les flux de la vie mais qui est ""votre ami"" très acquis par les plus charmants souvenirs"" ""Do not hold it against me and forgive definitively a colleague harassed by all the streams of life but who is 'your friend' very devoted through the most charming memories"" and extends his best wishes for the beginning of 1903. He also mentions the forthcoming publication of his work ""L'orgie latine"" to be published by Eugène Fasquelle and which will be decorated with illustrations and proposes to his correspondent to collaborate on the review la Bavarde to which he contributes some articles. unknown
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Jean COCTEAU
Lettre autographe adressée à l'écrivain et journaliste Olivier Quéant s'émerveillant de la beauté des charmes de la Côte d'Azur et s'inquiétant de la perte du savoir-faire artisanal
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1958. Fine. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 4 N ovembre 1958 13.50 x 21 cm trois pages et demi sur deux feuillets Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau 52 lines in blue ink to Olivier Quéant sent from the Villa Santo-Sospir in Saint Jean Cap-Ferrat which he decorated. Fold marks inherent to the mailing. Jean Cocteau waxes bucolically enthusiastic about the place where he resides and works: "". chaque jour je travaille à flanc de colline dans une sorte de ferme exquise où ne fleurisse que les grains qui tombent d'ailleurs."" "". each day I work on the hillside in a sort of exquisite farm where only the seeds that fall from elsewhere flourish."" and rhapsodizes about the local craftsmanship: "". des artisans véritables. travailler chez eux c'est le contraire de lire un journal. On aime voir ce miracle de l'équilibre entre le coeur et la main."" "". true artisans. working with them is the opposite of reading a newspaper. One loves to see this miracle of balance between heart and hand."" He informs Olivier Quéant of his upcoming exhibition: ""J'expose le 15 13 pour la première 6 rue Bonaparte. je ne te demande pas de venir voir mes oeuvres mais leur besogne ils le méritent."" ""I'm exhibiting on the 15th 13th for the opening 6 rue Bonaparte. I'm not asking you to come see my works but their labor they deserve it."" and also explains the aesthetic causes he intends to defend henceforth: "". nous menons la même croisade : celle de soutenir ces braves types qu'on dédaigne comme des aristocrates du milieu ouvrier. Le drame c'est que l'artiste qui tournait amoureusement un pied de fauteuil Louis 15 apporte la même application mais froide à forger la pièce d'une machine qui fabriquera le fauteuil."" "". we wage the same crusade: that of supporting these good fellows who are disdained as aristocrats of the working class. The tragedy is that the artist who lovingly turned a Louis XV chair leg applies the same care but cold to forging the part of a machine that will manufacture the chair."" while lamenting that artisanal traditions and know-how are sinking into oblivion: "". les jeunes refusent d'apprendre le métier par exemple des femmes de soixante ans qui firent ce prodige : ma tapisserie de Judith et Holopherne. disaient : c'est la dernière."" "". young people refuse to learn the trade for example women of sixty who performed this miracle: my tapestry of Judith and Holofernes. said: it's the last one."" He hopes to see his friend Olivier Quéant soon: ""Tu en verras une chez les Weill si tu me fais la grâce de venir et si le déluge parisien cesse et si tu ne dois pas atteindre la rue Bonaparte en arche ou gondole."" ""You'll see one at the Weills' if you do me the grace of coming and if the Parisian deluge ceases and if you don't have to reach rue Bonaparte by ark or gondola."" unknown
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1ere Convention Francaise Du Cinema Fantastique original poster
Nanterre: Theatre De Nanterre 1972. First Edition . Single Sheet. Fine. 11 1/2" x 8 1/2. Single Sheet Poster Printed On Both Sides With Directions On Reverse. From The Collections Of Forrest Ackerman. <br/> <br/> Theatre De Nanterre unknown
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