‎Autographes‎

‎WILLY [Henry GAUTHIER-VILLARS]‎

‎Carte autographe de Willy ""Ah ! ah ! vous aussi vous êtes pornographe !""‎

‎1900. Fine. s. d. 11.50 x 8 cm une carte Autograph letter signed by Henry Gauthier-Villars known as Willy 6 lines in purple ink sender's address at foot: ""Rue de Courcelles 93"". Amusing letter from Willy central personality of Parisian social life at the turn of the 19th century where all his taste for humor and provocation shows through: ""Ah! Ah! You too are a pornographer! I am not displeased my dear colleague to find myself in such good company"". unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64435

‎Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Pierre Puvis de Chavannes‎

‎Paris 1898. Fine. Paris 9 mai 1898 12 x 15 cm un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes dated May 9 1898 19 lines in black ink on letterhead with the address of the mansion of his wife Marie Cantacuzène ""89 avenue de Villiers"" . A moving letter of thanks from the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: "" The thought of associating my work . with your own paternal feeling leaves me an inexpressible impression intimate full of emotion. "" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64430

‎Roland BARTHES‎

‎Lettre autographe signée à Georges Raillard‎

‎Paris 1968. Fine. Paris 16 décembre 1968 21 x 27 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Long autograph letter signed by Roland Barthes addressed to Georges Raillard. Two pages written in blue ink on a letterhead of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Envelope with identical header attached. Two central folds inherent in enveloping the envelope. ""Dear friend Thank you for your good letter thank you for the list of notabilities and thank you for the check.Fun has it that I will go back to Barcelona for a few hours at the end of the week.I could not have room on Saturday 21 in the plane Geneva Casablanca which takes place once a week and held by complicated dates I was obliged to go to Morocco to plan to go from Geneva to Barcelona unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 67060

‎Emmanuel MOUNIER‎

‎Trois lettres autographes signées d'Emmanuel Mounier‎

‎Paris 1930. Fine. Paris 23 janvier s. d. 1936 13.50 x 21 cm en feuillets Three autograph letters signed by Emmanuel Mounier 7 pages in black ink on headed paper with the address of the headquarters of the journal Esprit. Corrections of the author's hand. Folds inherent in envelopes. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64419

‎STENDHAL‎

‎« Un solitaire est jaloux de sa liberté. C'est son plus grand bien comme c'est celui de tous les hommes. » • Autograph letter addressed to his sister Pauline‎

‎1805. Fine. 10 Floréal 13 30 avril 1805 18.50 x 23.10 cm une feuille Stendhal's autograph letter addressed to his sister Pauline. 28 lines written with a fine writing in black ink. First name ""Pauline"" from the hand of the sender at the bottom of the letter. Inventory number ""36"" in ink from another hand. Two small traces of stamp and stamp a small tear restored in the bottom margin of the page. A few tiny folds inherent in the enveloping of the letter. Rare and beautiful letter of Stendhal addressed to his sister Pauline in which all the sensitivity of the young man and his love for the dramatic art shows more than twenty years before his big romantic successes. This letter comes from the correspondence between Henri Bayle here twenty-two years with his sister Pauline three years younger. This true epistolary liaison which quickly took the form of a ""diary"" - Pauline's answers were rare - is an essential milestone in the constitution of the intellectual journey of the future Stendhal. Our letter of a great lyricism testifies to the strength of the bond uniting the young writer and his sister: ""Let's shake each other my good friend. We will never find anyone who loves Pauline as Henry nor will Henry ever find a more beautiful soul than Pauline. ""The use of the third person and a lover vocabulary erects the young woman to the rank of alter ego a sister-soul and even perfect mistress. The young Henri is then precisely under the yoke of a devouring passion for the actress Melanie Guilbert whom he met during his declamation classes at Dugazon: "" I'm going to be bored perhaps by my dark sadness. I know very well that the seriousness of ardent passions is not pleasant. "" Contrasting with this passionate relationship Pauline symbolizes reason and balance a figure that Henri like a pygmalion can fashion at leisure. In good tutor he advises: ""Learn by heart roles. About declamation I will teach you a thousand things. I'm bringing you a Gil Blas and a Tracy. ""We understand here worship Stendhal devoted to the theater from his earliest years both as a player as a playwright the fund of its archives to the Grenoble Library contains nearly 700 sheets of blanks:"" I am in despair at not being able to wear you Beanies. But wait maybe someday will come . as Ulino says. ""This passion for theater Henry intends to pass it to his sister:"" We will work like hell during the time that I stay in Grenoble. ""In total opposite view with the education of women in his time he put a point of honor that Pauline is an educated person; In several letters moreover we find injunctions from the brother ordering his sister to give up needlework in favor of the reading he recommends. Truly obsessed with theater and convinced that he will become an author of successful comedies he works tirelessly: ""I am told a room where I will not be free and where I can not just declaim. Try to disturb this arrangement. ""Years before writing great novels that make her famous Stendhal already understands that loneliness is for him a source of creation and says:"" A lonely is jealous of his freedom. It is his greatest good as that of all men. "" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 66974

‎Napoleon-Jerome BONAPARTE‎

‎Quatre lettres de Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte aux signatures maçonniques adressées au peintre Géniole‎

‎Italie Italy 1842. Fine. Italie Italy circa 1842 13.50 x 20.50 cm 4 feuillets rempliés Set of four letters from Napoleon-Jerome Bonaparte to the painter Geniole two are dated August 21 and December 12 1842 6 pages in brown ink recipient address on the back of the sheets two seals of the sender in part preserved. Folds inherent in envelopes. Some tiny tasks without affecting the text. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64434

‎Antonio TORRES‎

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

‎Coimbra 2000. Fine. Coimbra 25 Janvier 2000 14.50 x 10.50 cm une carte postale Signed autograph postcard of the Brazilian writer Antonio Torres addressed to the translator of his works in French Alice Raillard from Coimbra on January 25 2000 representing a view of the city. ""Alice a thought to you here in Coimbra where I speak for the public of the university. Pardon for my poor French . Abracos pare voce e Georges my officer!"" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 68058

‎Antonio TORRES‎

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

‎Coimbra 1995. Fine. Coimbra 12 Novembre 1995 14.50 x 10.50 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard dated and signed with 11 lines entirely written in Brazilian Portuguese by writer Antonio Torres addressed to Alice Raillard the French translator of his works from Rome on November 11 1995 depicting Saint Peter's Square. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 68151

‎Charles BAUDELAIRE‎

‎Lettre autographe datée et signée de Charles Baudelaire à Philoxène Boyer concernant l'intrigante Léontine B. • Handwritten letter dated and signed by Charles Baudelaire to Philoxene Boyer concerning the intriguing Leontine B.‎

‎Paris 1854. Fine. Paris 25 Juin 1854 11.50 x 18.50 cm une page recto-verso Handwritten letter dated and signed by Charles Baudelaire to Philoxène Boyer concerning the intriguing Léontine B. Paris 25 Juin 1854 11.5 x 18.5 cm one page recto-verso Handwritten two-page letter dated 25 June 1854 and signed by Charles Baudelaire to Philoxène Boyer whom he calls «my dear Lyrique» in which he apologises for having missed a meeting with him he confesses his impecuniosity to him and reports to him on the efforts made by Léontine B. an intriguing person who will end up compromising Philoxène Boyer because of his debts to attend a party to which she is not invited and which holds a certain jealousy: «You surely assume my dear Lyrique that yesterday something serious happened for me to have missed this meeting. Here is what I would have told you: 1 – my money has not come; but it will come. / 2 – Léontine is obstinate. I am convinced that I have fulfilled my confidence mission very well. I came back three times. When I finally could explain to her carefully that this party was for family secret that Boyer himself was supposed to ignore it – she replied: Well it's no longer a secret since I know.» Finally while recognising Léontine as «a very original turn of mind» and although the attitude of this troublesome scheme: «causes you worry and I understand.» Charles Baudelaire pleads for indulgence and leniency: «since she persists so proudly I would urge you to let the event run. It is after all only the homage of a dizzy mind.» unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 68690

‎STENDHAL‎

‎Lettre autographe adressée à sa soeur Pauline : «Voilà mes rêveries . tu es la seule personne au monde à qui j'ose les dire.» • Autograph letter to his sister Pauline: 'These are my reveries . you are the only person in the world I dare share them with.'‎

‎1808. Fine. 26 mars 1808 20 x 24.80 cm 3 pages 1/2 sur un double feuillet Long autograph letter by Stendhal addressed to his sister Pauline written in fine handwriting with black ink. Address of Stendhal's father where his sister resides in Grenoble with the stamp ""n°51 Grande Armée."" Red wax seal bearing Stendhal's coat of arms. Several original folds inherent to postal delivery. A paper loss due to the unsealing of the letter has been skillfully restored. Published in his Correspondance ed. Henri Martineau Paris Le Divan 1933 vol. 3 no. 262 A pp. 26-29. A very beautiful letter filled with romantic passion blending childhood nostalgia with sentimental tales and foreshadowing The Red and the Black. This letter is part of the correspondence between twenty-five years old Henri Beyle and his sister Pauline three years his junior. This epistolary relationship which quickly took the form of a ""journal"" as Pauline's responses were rare. It is deemed a crucial milestone in the intellectual development of the future Stendhal: ""Here are my dreams my dear friend; I am almost ashamed of them; but after all you are the only person in the world to whom I dare confess them."" In this letter which attests to the strong bond between brother and sister Stendhal then in Germany expresses his deep nostalgia: ""I revisited in my memory all the time we spent together: how I did not love you in our childhood; how I once hit you at Claix in the kitchen. I hid in the little book cabinet; my father came back a moment later furious and said to me: 'Wicked child! I would eat you!' Then all the woes inflicted upon us by poor Aunt Séraphie; our walks along those paths surrounded by stagnant water towards Saint-Joseph."" These regrets about the past are accompanied by a typically Stendhalian melancholy: ""Alas! That delightful happiness I once imagined I glimpsed it once at Frascati and a few other times in Milan. Since then it has not returned; I marvel at my inability to feel it. The mere memory of it is more powerful than all the present joys I can procure."" This evocation of the Italy he longs for is intertwined with memories of the women he loved: ""I told you that while in Frascati at a charming fireworks display at the moment of the explosion Adèle leaned on my shoulder for an instant; I cannot express how happy I was. For two years whenever I was overwhelmed with sorrow this image gave me courage and made me forget all my troubles. I had long forgotten it; I tried to recall it today. Against my will I see Adèle as she is; but as I am now there is no longer the slightest joy in this memory."" This lengthy account of Adèle Rebuffet his cousin with whom he had a profound romantic relationship before forming a closer bond with her mother reflects Stendhal's sentimentality. He also mentions another of his great passions Angelina Pietragrua the ideal Italian woman and embodiment of his Milanese memories: ""Madame Pietragrua is different: her memory is linked to that of the Italian language; whenever something pleases me in a role for a woman in a work I involuntarily put it into her mouth."" This ""role for a woman"" that Stendhal refers to echoes the central theme of this letter the work Il Matrimonio segreto by composer Cimarosa: ""Do you sometimes play the Matrimonio It’s the passage Cara sposa at the beginning between Carolina and Paolino. . But play the Matrimonio for my sake especially Signor deh permettette and the finale Io rival de mia sorella."" This opera by Cimarosa remained a constant throughout the writer's life and work. In his Memoirs of an Egotist 1832 he explains: ""In Milan in 1820 I wanted to have this written on my tomb . I wanted a marble tablet in the shape of a playing card: ""Errico Beyle - Milanese - Visse scrisse amò - Quest'anima adorava Cimarosa Mozart e Shakspeare - Morì di anni. il . 18."" ""Henri Beyle - Milanese - He lived wrote loved - This soul adored Cimarosa Mozar unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 68967

‎Lawrence DURRELL‎

‎"Tout le monde cherche quelqu'un de fidèle tout en restant 'libre' en échange !"" • Signed autograph postcard addressed to Jani Brun‎

‎Sommières 1970. Fine. Sommières s. d. circa 1970 15 x 10 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in black felt-tip pen on the verso of a view of the banks of the Vidourle at Sommières. Admirable and humorous confession by the writer to his young lover: ""Tout le monde cherche quelqu'un de fidèle tout en restant 'libre' en échange ! Bientôt je serai impuissant et le problème n'existera plus !"" ""Everyone is looking for someone faithful while remaining 'free' in return! Soon I will be impotent and the problem will no longer exist!"". Durrell reflects on his numerous feminine conquests ""Pour l'instant je suis comblé de belles et j'en profite - pourquoi pas !"" ""For now I am overwhelmed with beauties and I'm taking advantage of it - why not!"" and gives precious advice to his addressee who had chosen to remain independent despite the writer's entreaties: ""Tu n'es pas heureuse en amour parce que tu es intéressée - tu cherche sic des combines toujours au lieu de te donner sans réserve ni réservation ! C'est quand on deviens sic esclave qu'on est vraiment heureux !"" ""You are not happy in love because you are self-interested - you are always looking for schemes instead of giving yourself without reserve or reservation! It's when one becomes a slave that one is truly happy!"" After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the traveler-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 he arrived in 1956 in France and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""maison Tartès"" his large house surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and sparkling ""Jany"" Janine Brun a thirty-something from Montpellier of devastating beauty who worked at the Department of Antiquities at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting when 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 extensive correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artistic pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 70299

‎Maurice BEJART‎

‎"Ispahan où nous étions ensemble est toujours aussi émouvant."" • Signed autograph postcard addressed to André-Philippe Hersin‎

‎Ispahan Isfahan 1974. Fine. Ispahan Isfahan 22 novembre 1974 14.90 x 10.20 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Maurice Béjart addressed to André-Philippe Hersin on the verso of a photographic reproduction showing the trembling minarets of Isfahan. The choreographer sent this postcard from Iran where he created in 1971 under the patronage of Empress Farah Pahlavi his ballet Golestan The Rose Garden and in 1974 at the Shiraz festival his ballet Mallarmé III to music by Pierre Boulez. It would also be during this period that Béjart is said to have converted to Islam after meeting Dariouche Safvate eminent Kurdish Sufi musician. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 70633

‎Lawrence DURRELL‎

‎"youth at the prow and beauty at the helm"" luxe et voupté - dans le Club Méditerranée everything is done for you"" • Signed autograph postcard addressed to Jani Brun‎

‎Grèce Greece 1981. Fine. Grèce Greece 28 mai 1981 14.60 x 10.20 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun his young French lover written in blue felt-tip pen on the verso of a humorous illustration featuring Poseidon. The writer had stayed at Club Méditerranée and sings its praises with a verse from the neo-medieval poem The Bard by Thomas Gray and one from Baudelaire: ""youth at the prow and beauty at the helm"" Jeunesse à la proue et beauté à la barre luxe et voupté - dans le Club Méditerranée everything is done for you tout est fait pour vous J'ai envie de rester encore vingt ans ici. That would make me 110 years old j'aurais 110 ans."" After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the travelling writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to independence from the British crown. Rich only with a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus Les citrons acides he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""maison Tartès"" his large house surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and vivacious ""Jany"" Janine Brun a woman from Montpellier in her thirties of devastating beauty who worked at the Department of Antiquities at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we keep precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received extensive correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 70551

‎Maurice BEJART‎

‎"Je reçois les Saisons à l'instant et c'est une joie de vous sentir présent à travers les lignes"" • Signed autograph postcard addressed to André-Philippe Hersin‎

‎Capri 1972. Fine. Capri 20 juillet 1972 10.40 x 15 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Maurice Béjart from Capri addressed to André-Philippe Hersin then in Avignon for the theatre and dance festival. On the verso a drawing depicting the coat of arms of Sir Galahad. The choreographer sends a warm message to the editor of Saisons de la danse whose latest issue he had just read. Hersin was indeed a great champion of Béjart’s choreographic style and devoted laudatory articles to him in his journal as well as monographic booklets on his work. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 70632

‎Lawrence DURRELL‎

‎"je suis vraiment navré pour le voyage"" • Signed autograph postcard addressed to Jani Brun‎

‎Sommières 1971. Fine. Sommières 16 septembre 1971 17.90 x 12.80 cm un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun written in blue felt tip pen. The writer gives his news to his young French lover: ""I'm going to Geneva for 10 days to have my expertise assessed for my psychosome exema sic and discuss a script. Am happy because the servants in Provence are getting insolent see back "": the last part of the sentence referring to the waved santons on the back of the postcard. After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings which led to the island's 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 Acid lemons he arrived in 1956 in France and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""Maison Tartès"" his large house surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Quintette d'Avignon devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin the violinist Yehudi Menuhin the London editor Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Pénélope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met there in the mid-1960s the young and sparkling ""Jany"" Janine Brun Montpellier of thirty years with ravaging beauty who worked in the Department of Antiquities of the Sorbonne in Paris. It was named “Buttons” in memory of their first meeting where the girl wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell in love with ""Buttons"" praising his beauty and his eternal youth in exceptional letters that were never published. The three friends spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we keep precious autograph traces through their correspondence. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received a large correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed by her artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 70820

‎[Louise-Anne de BOURBON-CONDE] - Donatien Alphonse Francois de SADE - Jean-Baptiste-Francois-Joseph, comte de SADE‎

‎Testament‎

‎Paris 1758. Fine. Paris dimanche 2 avril 1758 13.40 x 19.20 cm 2 feuillets Will of Louise-Anne de Bourbon-Condé known as Mademoiselle de Charolais copied by the hand of Jean-Baptiste-François-Joseph Count de Sade and father of the Marquis in which the latter makes her nephew Louis-François Joseph de Bourbon Prince de Conti her universal legatee. A second part concerns bequests to livery servants to chambermaids and valets to the wardrobe keeper etc. Footnote in the hand of the Marquis de Sade: ""known as Mademoiselle de Charolais"". Attached is a note sheet written in Sade's hand with a view to publishing his father's correspondence. This will was written five days before the death of Mademoiselle de Charolais whose death occurred on Friday April 7 1758 following three months of illness. The second part of the will is dated Sunday April 2 1758 while the first bears the date of Sunday April 12 1758: this is obviously an erroneous date. The entirety of this copy was written by the hand of the Count de Sade who lived with Mademoiselle de Charolais at her château of Athis-Mons from 1750 until her death. The young Count de Sade sent by his father to Paris around 1720 had as protector Louis-Henri de Bourbon Prince de Condé known as Monsieur le Duc. Upon his arrival the young man appreciated court life and ""Rare thing he pleased women without making himself hated by men: hence the number of his friends at least as high as that of his mistresses. . M. de Sade was not content with easy conquests; bourgeois women left him indifferent. Those he sought - and most often conquered - were court women not only endowed with wit and beauty but also adorned with an illustrious name credit influence or fortune capable in a word of serving his interests and putting him in good standing at court."" Lever Sade. Among his conquests figured Mademoiselle de Charolais seven years his senior sister of his protector and then royal mistress. Little desirous of marrying she preferred all her life to remain unmarried and multiplied adventures and prestigious lovers. She was notably the favorite of the Duke de Richelieu but also of Louis XV for whom she recruited numerous mistresses thus earning the sobriquet of ""royal procuress"". The carnal encounter between Mademoiselle de Charolais and the Count de Sade took place on November 24 1725 while the latter was confined to bed because of a sprain. A letter from Louise-Anne attests to this nascent adventure: ""November 24 is the most beautiful day of my life if I have regained possession of my kingdom and my sovereignty by the rights of the bed where I swore you an oath of fidelity. I count on having received yours and I now live for the prettiest king in the world."" Papiers de famille p.20. The passion was not reciprocal however and the fickle Count de Sade soon met the Duchess de la Trémoïlle. Thus distancing himself from Mademoiselle de Charolais he wrote to her by way of breaking up: ""I regarded Madam the advances you made to me as provocation of your mind and not of your heart. I did not have the honor of knowing you I owed you nothing a sprain obliged me to keep to my room I was idle there your letters were pretty they amused me I flattered myself if it were true that I had made your conquest that you might cure me of an unfortunate passion which occupies me entirely."" op. cit. p.23. In 1752 the Count de Sade was ruined by his lifestyle he had sent young Donatien to Louis-le-Grand college and lodged with his good friend Mademoiselle de Charolais at the château of Athis-Mons: ""I have retired to Mademoiselle's although it is cruel at my age to depend on someone to reduce my expenses."" Letter from the Count de Sade to his uncle the provost of L'Isle-sur-Sorgue November 11 1752. He remained with his friend accompanying her in her numerous travels across Europe until her death. The correspondence between the Count de Sade and Mademoiselle de Charolais con unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59468

‎Louis CALAFERTE‎

‎Lettre autographe signée ""c'est l'immobilisme chez ces gens qui ne prennent plus aucun risque d'édition.""‎

‎Lyon 1978. Fine. Lyon 5 Mars 1978 21 x 27 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Letter autograph dated March 5 1978 signed by Louis Calaferte two pages to an unidentified bookseller friend 33 lines in black ink written from Lyon. Usual traces of minor folds of a letter slipped into an envelope. In his missive full of solicitude esteem and respect for the work of writing of his unfortunate correspondent who wishes to publish his manuscript Louis Calaferte apologizes first of all for the delay independent of his will taken for to answer him: ""I waited waited waited - always hoping to be able to bring you a happy news concerning the possible edition of your work of bookstore"" to then confess to him and to criticize ""a certain immobilism at those people who do not take anymore no risk of editing and are more fond of imbecility of the genre ""best-seller"" than books relating to a certain erudition "" . Louis Calaferte unsuccessful intermediary between this writer and the world of Parisian publishers is ""sorry because in my opinion it seems to me that an edition of this type would have been necessary."" He proposes during his next visit to Paris to hand him the manuscript which he has unsuccessfully proposed to the publishing houses and which he calls ""your notebook"" or to bring it to him in his bookstore more later. Enffin Louis Calaferte symbolically concludes his letter with a ""sorry for this failure I beg you to believe in my esteem"". unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62584

‎Charles BAUDELAIRE‎

‎« Me voici en mesure d'accomplir tous mes plans » • Signed autograph letter addressed to his mother‎

‎Biponti Deux-Ponts 1865. Fine. Biponti Deux-Ponts Vendredi 12 mai 1865 13.20 x 20.80 cm 1 page sur un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by Charles Baudelaire written in ink and addressed to his mother. A few underlinings deletions and authorial corrections. This letter was first published in Charles Baudelaire Dernières lettres inédites à sa mère in 1926. Former collection of Armand Godoy no. 197. A precious letter from Baudelaire's Brussels period during the poet's voluntary exile at the end of his life. « Il est douteux que j'habite quelque part à Paris. Je crois que j'habiterai surtout une voiture dans laquelle je ferai si je peux toutes mes courses en un ou deux jours. » Haunted by Paris – the city of vice and creditors – he dreads this brief return. His exile in Brussels is in his eyes a sign of failure and ever since arriving in Belgium he has delayed his return to France. Yet weary of the flat country he despises he mocks its inhabitants: « On est lent ici. » The poet like the seventeen-year-old student who once promised his mother he would get back on track now vows: « Me voici en mesure d'accomplir tous mes plans. Je ne sais comment t'exprimer ma reconnaissance ; et je crois que la meilleure manière sera d'exécuter mes promesses. » Literally obsessed with this sacred mother « who haunts his heart and his mind » the « grateful son » sees himself as incapable of fulfilling his poetic destiny without her undivided attention. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62589

‎Elemir BOURGES‎

‎Lettre autographe signée d'Elémir Bourges‎

‎Paris 1900. Fine. Paris n.d. circa 1900 12.40 x 16.70 cm une page sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by Elémir Bourges written in black ink. Paris date and address of Elémir Bourges at the top of the letter signature at the bottom of the letter. Central fold caused by mailing. Elémir Bourges wrote this letter in response to a request for photographs of the author. He replies that he does not have one and that his correspondent can nevertheless find old clichés in the press coming from Manuel or Waléry two Parisian portrait photographers. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62649

‎Elemir BOURGES‎

‎Lettre autographe signée d'Elémir Bourges‎

‎Paris 1900. Fine. Paris n.d. circa 1900 12 x 19 cm une page sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by Elémir Bourges written in black ink. Date and place at the top of the letter signature at the bottom of the letter. Central fold caused by mailing. Elémir Bourges writes this letter to apologize to his friend because he will not be able to attend the lunch they had planned due to illness. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62648

‎Robert AMADOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Robert Amadou à Mme Charmer-Leroy‎

‎Paris 1973. Fine. Paris 19 mai 1973 21 x 29.70 cm une page sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by Robert Amadou to Mrs. Charmer-Leroy written in blue ink. Address of Robert Amadou at the top left stamp dâte at the beginning of the letter address of the recipient on the back of the letter. Traces of creases caused by mailing. The author writes this letter following a letter from his correspondent. He offers to meet her to exchange with her ""things we love - the only ones worth living ."". unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62631

‎Jean DUTOURD - (to Jean RIMEIZE)‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Jean Dutourd à Jean Rimeize‎

‎Paris 1979. Fine. Paris 22 juin 1979 13.50 x 21 cm 2 pages sur une feuille Signed autograph letter of Jean Dutourd to Jean Rimeize written in black ink envelope attached. Date at the top of the letter and signature of Jean Dutourd at the bottom of the letter Paris address of Jean Dutourd on the envelope. Fold trace of the letter caused by mailing. The academician sends this letter to thank him for the paper his destiny wrote and which touched Jean Dutourd. This paper by Jean Rimeize comes from a conversation between the two men. Jean Dutourd writes that he will link this article as soon as he can. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62633

‎Gustave FLAUBERT‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Gustave Flaubert adressée à Léon Cladel‎

‎Paris 1877. Fine. Paris 9 mai 1877 13.50 x 20.50 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by Gustave Flaubert addressed to Léon Cladel. Envelope attached. Some underlinings and manuscript corrections by the author. Minor water stains. Three small restorations using adhesive on the second page as well as two fold marks inherent to the letter's folding for mailing. Amusing letter in which Gustave Flaubert whose literary renown is well established offers his support to his friend Léon Cladel who is struggling to have one of his works published. The ""master"" - this is how Léon Cladel addresses his colleague - begins this letter with enthusiasm: ""I started your book yesterday at 11 o'clock; it was finished this morning at 9!"" The ""book"" in question is L'Homme de la Croix-aux-Bœufs which Flaubert had agreed to re-read for his friend on April 30; he had indeed requested the manuscript deposited with the publisher Georges Charpentier: ""Cladel wrote to me to say that he wished me to read pardon the subjunctive the novel in sheets which is with you. So send it to me or bring it to me."" Letter of May 3 1877. Léon Cladel very close to Gustave Flaubert seems to have shared with him the fears of the publisher Édouard Dentu regarding the publication of his work: ""And first of all Dentu must be mad to be afraid to publish it."" As a seasoned veteran of the ruthless world of publishing Flaubert positions himself as a professional and declares: ""Nothing in it is reprehensible either politically or morally. What he told you is a pretext"" This question of moral reprehension echoes the famous trial brought against the author of Madame Bovary. Like an enthusiastic literary critic Flaubert compliments his colleague: ""I find your book to be a real book. It is very well done very careful very masculine. & I know what I'm talking about my good man."" As a scrupulous reader he nevertheless allows himself a few remarks on Cladel's manuscript ""I have two or three small criticisms to make trivial matters - or rather advice to submit to you."" before reconsidering: ""Sometimes there are pretensions to archaism and naivety. It is an excess of good."" Flaubert's attitude here is almost paternal and in any case benevolent: aware of his friend's abilities he wishes to encourage him and see the publication of his work succeed: ""But once again be content & sleep soundly - or rather don't sleep - and often create similar works."" The benevolent writer also mentions in this letter another publisher Georges Charpentier: ""As for Charpentier to whom I will return your sheets on Friday - the day when I dine at his house I am going to give him a vigorous talking-to & in all conscience without exaggeration & without lies."" Charpentier who has been publishing Flaubert since 1874 has become a close friend of the writer with whom he maintains a rich correspondence. In this month of May 1877 he has just published Trois contes which was for Cladel the occasion for a moving celebration of his master in Letters: ""Where the devil did you get that gleaming brush with which you paint your canvases the small ones like the large ones and that sobriety that certain Latins would envy you To be at once Chateaubriand and Stendhal and moreover Flaubert."" This admiration is reciprocal and Flaubert feels for this ""true artist"" an unfeigned esteem: ""The ending is simply sublime! - & of the greatest effect."" He will reiterate a few weeks later his compliments: ""It is worked chiseled delved into. Observation in your case takes nothing away from poetry; on the contrary it brings it out."" Indeed Cladel will establish himself as the true heir to the Flaubertian style much more so than Zola who will precisely reproach him for ""working his prose relentlessly"" and ""striving to render perfect each sentence he writes."" It is finally Édouard Dentu who will publish the manuscript of L'Homme de la Croix-aux-Bœufs; Cladel will moreover offer a copy enriche unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62711

‎Roland BARTHES‎

‎Carte autographe signée de Roland Barthes à René Wintzen‎

‎s. l. 1956. Fine. s. l. Mercredi n.d. circa 1956 13.40 x 10.50 cm une carte recto verso Signed autograph card of Roland Barthes written in blue ink. Date at the top of the letter and signature at the bottom of the letter. Folds caused by mailing and 2 perforations. Roland Barthes sends this letter to accompany the autograph dedication of the author of a text. He states that he ""measures to see black and white all the drought"" of his text and insists that the recipient specifies the character ""spoken presentative non-exhaustive"" of it in his presentation. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62733

‎Rene CHAR‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de René Char à René Wintzen‎

‎L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue 1947. Fine. L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue 2 novembre 1947 21 x 26.90 cm 1 page sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by René Char of 11 lines written in black ink. Folds inherent to the mailing. René Char wrote this letter to René Wintzen editor-in-chief of the magazine Documents from 1929 to 1931. René Wintzen then began to publish a literary magazine Vent debout from which he sent Char a copy. The poet encourages him and tells him to persevere while ""discriminating the wheat from the chaff . "" René Char apologizes for not having a finished text to provide: ""I regret it. I write little and am only an accessory poet! "". This highlighting of a rare writing corresponds to René Char's idea of poetry and opposes the work advocated by Valéry. René Char writes little and submits to the demands of poetry: ""I never cheat. I have spent six months waiting for a word or a formula . This is the requirement of poetry. An absolute requirement. No words are free. Interview between René Char and Édith Mora Nouvelles littéraires 1965. The author also shows a distancing from poetry at the end of the decade. In fact Char experimented with new genres: he tried ballet with La Conjuration in April 1947 but also at the theater with Le Soleil des eaux music with Boulez and finally with the cinema. However he never leaves poetry and publishes the same year Poem sprayed . Char's modesty as to his status as a poet expresses the artist's subjection to the demand for poetry. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62727