‎Autographes‎

‎Henri BERGSON‎

‎Carte de visite autographe signée et adressée à Alain Besnard • Autograph visiting card signed and addressed to Alain Besnard‎

‎Paris 1917. Fine. Paris 29 mai 1917 10 x 6 cm une carte de visite enveloppe jointe Autograph calling card signed by Henri Bergson and addressed to Alain Besnard director of the Villa Medici. ""Je ne puis vous dire cher et illustre confrère combien vos aimables félicitations me touchent. Merci et de tout coeur à vous H.B."" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75483

‎Stephane MALLARME - (to Alidor DELZANT)‎

‎" Voici un quatrain lapidaire."" joint Calque original du quatrain destiné à orner le linteau de sa cheminée • Signed autograph letter and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant‎

‎1892. Fine. s. d. 15 avril 1892 12.60 x 16.40 cm 2 pages sur un double feuillet une carte et un calque Autograph letter signed by Stéphane Mallarmé to Alidor Delzant. Two pages written in black ink on a bifolium. Envelope enclosed. Also included is a signed autograph quatrain by Mallarmé on a card the one later inscribed on the mantelpiece: « Ici le feu pour renaître Tantôt durable ou charmant Comme l'amitié du maître Mêle du chêne au sarment. » Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourt brothers he devoted a work to them and served as EdmondÂ’s secretary and executor. A fine letter in which Mallarmé evokes the composition of a quatrain to adorn DelzantÂ’s mantelpiece: « Je suis infiniment touché et cette pensée comme toutes les vôtres est gracieuse. Voici un quatrain lapidaire je conseille la gravure en capitales; dites-moi s'il vous agrée. Mais usez-vous de sarments » Also included is the original tracing probably made by Mallarmé himself of the quatrain intended to decorate the lintel of Alidor DelzantÂ’s library fireplace in his house at Paraÿs. DelzantÂ’s reply to this letter is known: « Mon cher ami / Ces vers sont très beaux juste ce qui convenait pour glorifier la Cheminée de Paraÿs où les sarments pétillent autour des bûches des chênes. / Je demeure touché et reconnaissant. / Alidor Delzant. » unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75925

‎Alphonse ALLAIS‎

‎Billet autographe signé‎

‎1880. Fine. s. d. circa 1880 11.60 x 14.20 cm un billet Autograph letter signed by Alphonse Allais mounted on fine cardboard. Traces of transverse folds small lacks and marginal tears. ""Espèce de sagouin. / Entendu pour samedi. / Prends moi au Gil Blas vers 6h / Mille cordiaux respects à ta dame. A.A."" ""You rascal. / Agreed for Saturday. / Pick me up at Gil Blas around 6pm / A thousand cordial respects to your lady. A.A."" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75685

‎COLETTE‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Adrien Peytel‎

‎Marseille 1923. Fine. Marseille s. d. novembre 1923 13.70 x 18.70 cm une page sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel one page written in black ink on a double sheet with letterhead from the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole in Marseille. A central fold inherent to the mailing of the letter. Handsome letter addressed from Marseille while Colette was conducting a lecture tour: ""I'm finishing my tour. I'll be in Paris on Sunday and we'll take care of this matter - which I still haven't understood anything about."" ""In November 1923 she dealt with . a subject she knew by heart Le Théâtre vu des deux côtés de la rampe. Her very young lover Bertrand de Jouvenel joined her in Marseille at the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole. Scandal: Bertrand de Jouvenel was none other than the son of her second husband the diplomat Henry de Jouvenel; guaranteed uproar around the fifty-year-old writer while her husband's son had just celebrated his twentieth birthday. Colette had two years earlier initiated the future economist and political scientist into love in this scandalous liaison which provided the theme and situations for Blé en herbe published in that same year 1923."" Rémi Duchêne L'Embarcadère des lettres unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75257

‎Roger CAILLOIS‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Arnost Budik‎

‎Paris 1972. Fine. Paris 25 juin 1972 21 x 27 cm une page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Autograph letter signed by Roger Caillois addressed to Arnost Budik; one page written in black ink on a sheet of tissue paper. Envelope included. Some punch holes in the margin of the letter and envelope not affecting the text as well as some folds inherent to the folding of the missive. Roger Caillois thanks the Czech writer for the ""issues of Gravida that he was kind enough to send him"". Arnost Budik was indeed part of the editorial committee of this Belgian surrealist magazine and seems to have solicited a contribution from Caillois: ""Please find enclosed a text that I have just completed."" Caillois was alongside the surrealists only very briefly from 1932 to 1935 and here seems to apologize for this distancing: ""Surrealism never much appreciated descriptive-meditative poetry where I believed later to find my path. So if the text does not suit you have no qualms about returning it to me quite simply. I would understand very well."" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75103

‎Andre BRETON‎

‎Manuscrit autographe signé de deux chroniques intitulées ""Une fameuse gorgée de poison"" et ""ça !""‎

‎1953. Fine. mai 1953 21 x 27 cm une feuille et un petit papillon André Breton autograph manuscript signed ""A.B."" of two chronicles entitled ""Une fameuse gorgée de poison"" and ""ça !"" written for issue no. 7 of May 1953 of the review Médium. One long page written in black ink in careful handwriting on a white sheet some corrections and additions sometimes in blue ink. Included is a small slip in Breton's hand concerning an article by René Alleau containing a small printed text annotated by him in red and blue ballpoint pens and bearing an explanatory note at the top. Two transverse folds of no significance. This is the final version of these two texts; an intermediate version of these articles more crossed out than ours can be seen on the Breton Archives website. ""Une fameuse gorgée de poison"" ""A famous gulp of poison"" is a critical text on two films: Le Rideau cramoisi by Alexandre Astruc drawn from a story by Barbey d'Aurevilly and La Canduela by Maurice Clavel drawn from a novel by Stendhal: ""As they stand these two films constitute an unforgettable ensemble. Love is kindled there in the wind it loves that of perdition."" ""ça !"" ""that!"" whose title we can clearly see was previously chosen by Breton ""Le gredin du jour"" ""The scoundrel of the day"" is a diatribe against ""The frightful fool who bears for so few days more the name of Francis Jourdain"" and who ""recently allowed himself some sordid senile drivel which the press made much of. The old idiot had got it into the rotten parsnip that serves him as head and excretory organ to soil Huysmans if you please!"" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75168

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen : ""Nous dirons si vous le voulez bien en simple et bon français que Marcel Aymé a : de la pénétration. . Et si Marcel a de la pénétration moi j'ai de la vision.""‎

‎s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. • Klarskovgaard 22 octobre 1950 21 x 34 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Signed autograph letter partly unpublished by Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number ""582"" in Céline's hand in red pencil at top left. Cross-folds inherent to mailing. This letter was very partially transcribed in Année Céline 2005. Fine letter mentioning Marcel Aymé: ""We will say if you please in simple and good French that Marcel Aymé has: penetration. . And if Marcel has penetration I have vision."" We will not revisit the friendship that united Céline and Aymé - the latter even visited him at Klarskovgaard in March 1951 - but we will content ourselves with quoting a passage from the text that the Montmartre writer composed in homage to his sulphurous friend: ""I knew him twenty-five years ago before the war when he was celebrated everywhere admired - but rarely understood - and after his return from Denmark during the nine years of suffering that led him to death. Before as after the storm his conversation revealed the idealist whose sarcasms denounced the hundred thousand miseries of a cruel vain bulimic humanity bent on its own destruction. 'Before' his indictments against man's murderous and suicidal follies against the injustices and snares of society had the joyful force of a fighter bursting forth with inexhaustible verbal invention that amazed his listeners."" Ecrits sur la politique 1933-1967 Céline also speaks in this letter of Albert Naud his lawyer between 1947 and 1951 who ""is strolling in Canada"" and ""is going to get himself a Thénardière on the St Lawrence"". This is followed by a very Célinian consideration: ""I also believe that the next and ultimate Capital of France will be Montreal."" The Danish exile then fantasizes about a world government to be established: ""And René Meyer sic minister of Justice always of course! over there! You will then yourself be minister of War in Denmark in retirement."" In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist commitment is confined in Denmark. It is in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrives at his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen's home at Klarskovgaard. The latter owns a large property by the Baltic Sea and invites the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the purge the writer is definitively condemned in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year's imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The consul general of Sweden in Paris Raoul Nordling intervenes on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen Danish minister of Foreign Affairs and manages to delay his extradition. On April 20 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtains Céline's amnesty under the title of ""grand invalide de la grande guerre"" by presenting his file under the name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches without any magistrate making the connection. Céline will leave Denmark the following summer after three years spent at his lawyer's home. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75962

‎Roger CAILLOIS‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Dominique Aury‎

‎Paris 1968. Fine. Paris Mardi 27 février 1968 13.50 x 20.90 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Roger Caillois addressed to Dominique Aury; one page on a leaf written in blue ballpoint pen. Interesting letter concerning the article ""Mémoire interlope"" which would appear in issue 185 of the sixteenth year May 1968 of the Nouvelle Revue Française. At this time Marcel Arland and Jean Paulhan were both directors of the review which they had revived from its ashes in 1953. Roger Caillois's correspondent Dominique Aury also known under the pseudonym Pauline Réage sat on the Reading Committee of the famous Revue. This letter concerns a ""note"" that Roger Caillois asks Dominique Aury not to publish: ""Pour la note comme je l'avais dit à Arland je renonce à la publier. Notre ami la prendrait surement comme une sorte de coup de poignard dans le dos une trahison d'autant plus délibérée que je n'écris pour ainsi dire jamais de note. Elle n'en vaut pas la peine."" ""Regarding the note as I had told Arland I'm giving up publishing it. Our friend would surely take it as a sort of stab in the back a betrayal all the more deliberate since I practically never write notes. It's not worth it."" We could find no trace of this enigmatic note which Roger Caillois is impatient to recover: ""Retournez-la moi voulez-vous. J'en ferai peut-être le noyau d'une étude plus étendue où j'essaierai qu'apparaissent moins irritants que dans ce condensé les rapprochements litigieux."" ""Return it to me would you. I might perhaps make it the core of a more extended study where I will try to make the contentious connections appear less irritating than in this condensed version."" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75105

‎Gerard de NERVAL‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à son père le Dr Labrunie‎

‎Paris 1841. Fine. Paris s. d. circa mars 1841 10 x 13.10 cm un feuillet et son enveloppe dépliée Very rare autograph letter signed ""Gérard Labrunie"" addressed to ""his dear papa"" Dr. Labrunie. 13 lines written in small handwriting in black ink on one page. Unfolded envelope attached showing several postal stamps restored on the back with an adhesive piece. A few transverse creases as well as some very discrete holes not touching the text and inherent to the use of a pin to seal the letter. Fine letter from Gérard Labrunie to his ""dear papa"" about a ""very complicated affair"" relating to the ""capacity as surrogate guardian"" of the writer's father. Very rare signature of Gérard de Nerval under his real patronymic name: Gérard Labrunie. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73272

‎Julien GRACQ‎

‎"d'une grande richesse et d'un éclairage très singulier."" • Autograph Bristol dated and signed addressed to Roland Cailleux thanking him for sending his latest work‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1975. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. circa 1975 15.50 x 11 cm une feuille Autograph card of 11 lines signed by Julien Gracq addressed to Roland Cailleux regarding the sending of his latest work possibly A moi-même inconnu published in 1978 for which Julien Gracq congratulates him: "". ouvrage d'une grande richesse et d'un éclairage très singulier."" expressing an unusual sense of complicity between reader and writer: "". un courant de sympathie s'établit ici entre l'auteur et le lecteur qui ne se rencontre que rarement."" A fine tribute from Julien Gracq acknowledging and appreciating the sensitivity and talent of Roland Cailleux. S. n. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74311

‎Paul SIGNAC - (to Camille PISSARRO)‎

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

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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75511

‎Andre BRETON - (Sarane ALEXANDRIAN)‎

‎Lettre autographe signée inédite adressée à Sarane Alexandrian‎

‎Paris 1947. Fine. Paris mercredi 12 mars 1947 20.80 x 27 cm 1 page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Unpublished autograph letter signed addressed to Sarane Alexandrian one page written in blue ink on a sheet with the letterhead of the 1947 International Exhibition of Surrealism. Envelope enclosed. This letter is a response to a letter sent the day before by Sarane Alexandrian partially accessible on the Breton Archives website. Born in Baghdad and engaged in the Resistance in the Limousin it was during this period that Sarane Alexandrian discovered Dadaism. At twenty years old he became André Breton's right-hand man and was entrusted by the latter with directing the secretariat of Cause in order to respond to applications from numerous young artists from around the world wishing to join the Surrealist movement. In October 1948 he broke with the pope of Surrealism while maintaining his esteem and admiration for him: ""Near him one learned the savoir-vivre of poets whose essential article is a savoir-aimer. We admired him for the dignity of his behavior as a writer thinking neither of prizes nor decorations nor academies"" Alexandrian André Breton par lui-même 1971. The letter we offer marks the beginnings of this ephemeral but important relationship between the two writers. André Breton twenty years Sarane Alexandrian's senior seems to place great hopes in this young theorist who takes interest in his writings: ""Max-Pol Fouchet has not yet had me read 'Poetry and Objectivity' but your letter tells me enough for me to believe in a profound accord between us an accord based less on the reception you give to what my message has been able to be until now than on the very nature of your personal project which largely coincides with mine."" As for ""Poetry and Objectivity"" he adds: ""I would see the greatest interest in publishing in the catalog of the Surrealist exhibition some pages by you in which the principal ideas expressed in your letter would need to be barely transposed and especially those which touch upon the creation of an 'erotic mystique'."" This publication taking the form of a manifesto would indeed see the light of day and appear in the review Fontaine produced for the occasion of the 1947 International Exhibition of Surrealism at the Galerie Maeght. The text would earn great success for young Alexandrian who would henceforth be considered by his peers as the number two theorist of Surrealism. A very fine letter marking the beginning of the important but ephemeral relationship between the two master thinkers of Surrealism. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74239

‎Felix FENEON‎

‎"Le romancier et occultiste Paul Adam fut comme vous savez très lié à Maurice Barrès."" • Autograph letter signed by Félix Fénéon addressed to Gabriel Mourey‎

‎s. l. 1942. Fine. s. l. 17-2-1942 21 x 27 cm 2 feuilles Autograph letter signed by Félix Fénéon to Gabriel Mourey 18 lines in black ink folds from mailing. A key witness and actor of his time the art critic and collector Félix Fénéon assists the writer Gabriel Mourey in his search for the correspondence between Paul Adam and Maurice Barrès: ""Le romancier et occultiste Paul Adam fut comme vous savez très lié à Maurice Barrès. Candidats boulangistes dans deux circonscriptions lorraines contiguës il firent fraternellement une campagne électorale et journalistique à laquelle leur amitié ne survécut guère. Comment retrouver tous les papiers de Paul Adam mort il y a une vingtaine d'années Mme Paul Adam vit-elle encore. - je n'en sais rien. Mais il est probable que vive une de ses soeurs veuve depuis quelques trois ans de ce L. Cappiello auteur de tant d'affiches - peintre elle aussi et de plus fort sourde. Leur demeure était 8 rue Lechatelier XVIIe. Par Mme L. Cappiello vous retrouverez peut-être des papiers barrésiens laissés par Paul Adam. Pour le cas où vous chercheriez dans cette direction je note que que j'ai été en excellents termes avec toute la famille et que vous pouvez donc user de mon nom à votre gré."" A leading figure of the avant-garde Fénéon possessed a singular gift for discovering major artists. A deliberately discreet and eccentric dandy he devoted himself almost religiously to all that contributed to a new artistic sensibility. A staunch defender of the Neo-Impressionists Seurat and Signac and a friend of Mallarmé Camille Pissarro Paul Adam and Gustave Kahn Fénéon was successively an anarchist and a communist and directed a dozen small reviews. He published groundbreaking works such as RimbaudÂ’s Illuminations André GideÂ’s Paludes and James JoyceÂ’s Dedalus. A prolific journalist he wrote for numerous publications often unsigned or under fanciful pseudonyms such as Gil de Bache Porphyre Kalouguine and even Thérèse or Louise. A rare letter from Félix Fénéon discussing his contemporaries. Also included is an autograph letter signed by Fanny Fénéon wife of Félix Fénéon dated 30 December 1941 written while her husband was ill and bedridden; 10 lines in black ink with folds from mailing. ""Mon mari gravement malade est dans l'impossibilité de recevoir quelqu'un. Si la difficulté que vous désirez lui remettre peut se résoudre par lettre veuillez lui dire ce dont il s'agit. Une réponse immédiate vous montrera que malgré ses 80 ans il est tout à votre disposition. ."" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73853

‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎"""Etre fidèle ou infidèle dans ses promesses lequel vaut mieux "" • Vehement autograph letter dated and signed by Robert de Montesquiou to a dear friend Henry Lapauze protesting against his breach of his word‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1911. Fine. S. n. s. l. 9 Juin 1911 13.50 x 21 cm quatre pages sur deux feuilles Remarkable autograph letter dated and signed by the dandy count four pages on two large sheets 16 lines written in black ink to his ""dear friend"" Henri Lapauze denouncing his failure to keep his word and provoking the poet's epistolary ire. Henry Lapauze was to celebrate Robert de Montesquiou in a tribute book regarding the latter and to his great chagrin he forgot him thus stinging his impulsive pride: "". it is not to recriminate even less to complain - both incompatible with pride - but to record what compensates for misunderstandings."" and additional affront to the dandy-poet's pride : "". you spoke. only of Lavedan !"" while double and supreme betrayal Robert de Montesquiou honored his promise by dedicating his latest work to him: ""At the very moment when I was inscribing for you the dedication promised by me I received the fascicle where the comments promised by you were to be expressed for the book that pays tribute to me."" The poet and writer Robert de Montesquiou would be very grateful to him: "". the poet and friend who both in one thank you affectionately in advance."" Henry Lapauze 1867-1925 was a journalist art critic then in 1905 curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet Henner Falguière collections with at the twilight of his life a marked predilection for the Decorative Arts of which he was one of the ardent promoters. S. n. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74273

‎Alexandre DUMAS FILS‎

‎Carte autographe signée adressée au comte Joseph Primoli‎

‎Marly-le-Roi 1894. Fine. Marly-le-Roi 1894 11.30 x 8.90 cm une carte recto-verso Autograph letter signed by Alexandre Dumas Fils addressed to Count Joseph Primoli. Envelope included. A charming letter in which Dumas Fils thanks his friend for lending him a volume and invites him to visit during the week. It was at Princess Mathilde's salon mentioned in this letter: ""Tendresses respectueuses à la Princesse"" ""Respectful affection to the Princess"" that Dumas Fils and Joseph Primoli first met. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75854

‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

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

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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74255

‎Andre BRETON - (Albert CAMUS)‎

‎"Allons ce n'est pas encore cette fois que dans la révolte je parviendrai à introduire la ""mesure"" que nous prêche aimablement M. Camus."" • Unpublished signed autograph letter addressed to the critic Charles Estienne‎

‎Paris 1953. Fine. Paris 8 janvier 1953 21 x 27 cm 1 pages et quelques lignes sur un feuillet Unpublished handwritten signed letter from André Breton addressed to critic Charles Estienne; one page and a few lines in black ink on a paper from the à l'étoile scellée gallery. Two transverse folds from having been sent a small corner missing in the upper right margin. Very beautiful letter giving an account of the death of one of André Breton's dearest friends and of his quarrel with Albert Camus. Breton tells his friend about the death of the Surrealist Czech artist Jindich Heisler: “Your letter spoke of those days where it seemed “that there was only just enough fire to live”: on Monday there was far from enough fire when it reached me: one of my two or three best friends Heisler taken suddenly unwell on his way to mine on Saturday had to be hospitalised urgently and I had just received the pneumatic from Bichat telling me of his death. The event no less inconceivable than accomplished left me distraught for a long time: there was no-one more exquisite than he putting more warmth into everything he did the most constant of which was to lighten and embellish those whom he loved.” The two poets were indeed very close: Heisler participated alongside Breton in the launch of Néon in 1948 and supported him during a period of depression accompanying him with other friends to the ÃŽle de Sein. “The beginning of 1953 was overshadowed by the death of Jindich Heisler 4 January. Loyal among the faithful he “lived entirely for Surrealism” according to Breton who pays tribute to his activity as a leader: “This is how he was between 1948 and 1950 the soul of Néon and until his last moments the greatest bearer of projects that as if by magic his talent gave him the means to achieve.”” Henri Béhar André Breton In this letter laden with pain Breton suddenly makes reference to L'Homme révolté by Albert Camus published two years earlier: “Come on it is not yet the time in the rebellion that I will succeed in introducing the “measure” that M. Camus kindly preaches to us.” The two writers met in New York at the end of March 1946 when Camus was invited to the United States for a conference tour as a representative of Combat. “The two agree on the best way to preserve the testimony of certain men free from ideological distortions. They dream of a kind of pact by which people of their calibre would commit to not join any political party to fight against the death penalty to never claim any credit whatsoever.” ibid. With other intellectuals they founded the Rassemblement démocratique révolutionnaire RDR in 1948; but the idyll ended a couple of years later in the autumn of 1951 when Camus published “Lautréamont et la banalité” an extract from his Homme révolté which was published later. Breton was extremely hurt and responded to him in an article entitled “Sucre jaune” in Arts: “This article . testifies to the part of Camus for the first time for an indefensible moral and intellectual position. . He only wants to see a “guilty” adolescent in Lautréamont whom he - in his capacity as an adult - must discipline. He goes as far as to find him in the second part of his work: Poésies a deserved punishment. According to Camus Poésies would be but a mass of “laborious banalities” . It could still be worse if the destitution of these views did not intend to promote the most suspect thesis in the world which is that “absolute revolt” can generate only the “taste for intellectual enslavement”. This is a completely gratuitous ultra-defeatist statement which must incur even more contempt than its false demonstration.” Thus two years later Breton still holds out against Camus' crime of lese-majesty towards that which Breton constructed as the father of surrealism but even more this allusion to Camus' pacifist philosophy bearing witness to the incompatibility between a thought of moderation and a poetry of revol unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75729

‎Violette LEDUC‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Adriana Salem‎

‎1963. Fine. 9 10 et 16 janvier 1963 16.60 x 21.90 cm 3 pages sur 2 feuillets Autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed to Adriana Salem written in three stages in blue ink on two sheets detached from a schoolchild's notebook. The three stages of this letter concern the regretted purchase of a record player that Violette Leduc wishes to exchange for a transistor radio. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75707

‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎". les circonstances rapides au milieu des autres occupations ne m'ont pas permis de consulter."" • Autograph letter signed by Robert de Montesquiou to his friend Henry Lapauze thanking him for sending a document of which he has not yet read‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1895. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. circa 1895 12.50 x 20 cm quatre pages sur une feuille rempliée Autograph letter signed by the dandy count four pages 43 lines written in black ink thanking his friend Henry Lapauze and one of his acquaintances for having procured for him: ""l'intéressant document"" ""the interesting document"" which his overwhelming activity has not yet allowed him to read: "". avec autant d'application que je l'aurais voulu."" "". with as much attention as I would have wished."" Robert de Montesquiou therefore relies on his friend's indulgence also transmitting his apologies and gratitude to the unknown person who helped him through Henri Lapauze: "". je compte sur votre obligeance et celle de votre ami pour me permettre une autre fois de compléter cette lecture. veuillez bien lui transmettre ma gratitude en même temps que le surplus de mon désir."" "". I count on your kindness and that of your friend to allow me another time to complete this reading. please convey to him my gratitude along with the remainder of my desire."" A small brown stain at the top of one page a light crease at the foot of another without significance. Henry Lapauze 1867-1925 was a journalist and art critic who became in 1905 curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum and whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet Henner and Falguière collections with at the twilight of his life a marked preference for the Decorative Arts of which he was an ardent promoter. S. n. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74355

‎George SAND‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Stéphanie Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire : de l'émancipation féminine par l'éducation : ""Ç'a été pour moi une éducation à part que celle de cet enfant de 18 ans qui n'en avait que 2 il y a six mois et qui a maintenant son âge avec toute la candeur de l'enfance conservée."" • Autograph letter signed addressed to Stéphanie Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire: on womenÂ’s emancipation through education: “It has been for me a separate kind of education that of this child of 18 who was only 2 six months ago and who now has her age with all the candour of childhood preserved‎

‎Nohant Nohant-Vic 1858. Fine. Nohant Nohant-Vic 3 juin 1858 13.40 x 20.90 cm 4 pages sur un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by George Sand addressed to her friend Stéphanie Bourjot daughter of Étienne Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire. Four pages written in blue ink on a folded bifolium bearing George SandÂ’s monogram. Fold marks as usual.   This letter was partially published in Correspondance vol. XIV no. 7846. A beautiful and partly unpublished letter in which George Sand discusses Marie Pape-CarpantierÂ’s book and the education of her young maid Marie Caillaud: «It is an excellent book which I use to teach my young maid to read. She is extraordinarily intelligent and this book opens her mind to all sorts of sound ideas. Educating this 18-year-old child—who six months ago was only two in terms of knowledge—has been a unique experience. She now seems her age yet retains all the innocence of childhood. So every evening we read Marie CarpentierÂ’s little stories and I enjoy them just as much as my pupil does.»   Marie Caillaud was only eleven years old when George Sand hired her to wash dishes and tend to the chicken coop a task that earned her the nickname “Marie des poules.” But the writer soon recognized the young peasant girlÂ’s intelligence appointed her as housekeeper and by 1856 included her in the performances of the Nohant theatre. Her education is first mentioned in early 1858 notably in a letter from George Sand to her friend Charles Duvernet: «During my winter evenings I took on the education of little Marie the one who acted with us. From a dish washer I immediately raised her to the rank of housekeeper a role for which her excellent mind makes her perfectly suited. The greatest obstacle was that she couldn't read. That obstacle no longer exists. In thirty half-hour lessons—fifteen hours in a month—she mastered all the difficulties of the language slowly but perfectly. This miracle is due to the admirable Laffore method which I applied with the utmost gentleness to a perfectly lucid mind.» 16 February 1858   Marie Caillaud would go on to become a notable actress at Nohant and move in the circles of George SandÂ’s illustrious guests: Delacroix Gautier Dumas Prince Jérôme BonaparteÂ… But Marie was not George SandÂ’s first pupil. All her life Sand was deeply interested in pedagogy and taught not only her children and grandchildren but also members of her household staff and local peasants.   This letter is a remarkable testament to her hands-on approach as a teacher always seeking new and effective ways to impart knowledge: «What is lacking—or at least what I havenÂ’t found—is a true reading method. IÂ’ve devised one for my own use never written down based on LafforeÂ’s and adapted to my own ideas. But what I havenÂ’t found in primers for children or public school manuals is a well-crafted exercise book that teaches reading logically while also making sense of spelling. Does such a book exist» Far from a casual activity education was central to George SandÂ’s worldview. As Georges Lubin noted her aim was not merely to teach literacy. Taught to write by her own mother at the age of five Sand understood from an early age that the only path to equality lay through intellectual emancipation: «She understood very early on that the only road to equality was intellectual emancipation. The ignorance imposed upon women was the root of their servitude. The ignorance imposed upon the working classes underpinned class inequality. Education was the key to opening locked doors.» «George Sand et l'éducation» in Nineteenth-Century French Studies 1976 A beautiful and important testimony to George SandÂ’s tireless struggle for the emancipation of women through education. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 76111

‎JOB‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à H. Simonis Empis‎

‎1902. Fine. s. d. ca 1902 11.20 x 17.80 cm 2 pages 1/2 sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Job addressed to publisher H. Simonis Empis. Two and a half pages on a double sheet. Fold inherent to mailing. Interesting letter in which the illustrator proposes to the publisher to publish ""an album whose success he guarantees"": ""It concerns a small novel for children whose text would be done by Montorgueil and which would be as thrilling as possible . All the characters would be penny toys."" This refers to Liline et Frérot : au pays des joujoux which would finally be published by Boivin & Cie. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 76128

‎ALAIN‎

‎"Propos d'un Normand"" - Manuscrit autographe signé‎

‎1911. Fine. 29 juin 1911 13.50 x 21 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet double Signed autograph manuscript by Alain bearing the title ""Propos d'un Normand"" and the mention ""sans retard"" in the upper left of the first leaf two pages written in black ink on a double sheet. This text was published in the Propos d'un Normand de 1911. Interesting manuscript written following the appointment of Adolphe Messimy to the post of Minister of War: ""Ce général ministre avait en somme très noblement répondu. Il faudra enfin décider un jour ou l'autre sans aucun mystère que la Défense Nationale est républicaine."" ""This general minister had in sum responded very nobly. We must finally decide one day or another without any mystery that National Defense is republican."" Indeed the newly elected minister sought to redefine relations between political power and military authorities. Alain reproaches the military world for its opacity ""Comment la France sera-t-elle défendue Nous n'en savons rien. . chez nous même les députés ne s'en font aucune idée."" ""How will France be defended We know nothing about it. . even our deputies have no idea."" before proposing solutions: ""Donc il faudrait qu'il soit bien entendu que chaque chef garde une large initiative dans l'exécution d'un programme déterminé. Et ce programme ne dépend pas seulement de la science militaire ; c'est aux ministres avec le conseil des grands chefs qu'il appartient de le déterminer."" ""Therefore it should be well understood that each leader retains broad initiative in executing a determined program. And this program does not depend solely on military science; it is up to ministers with the counsel of senior leaders to determine it."" From 1903 Alain published weekly chronicles titled ""Propos"" in La Dépêche de Rouen et de Normandie. More than 3000 of these ""Propos"" concise articles inspired by daily current events would appear from February 1906 to September 1914. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 76144

‎Donatien Alphonse Francois de SADE‎

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

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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73394

‎Octave MIRBEAU‎

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

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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73700

‎Octave MIRBEAU‎

‎".vous savez bien qu'il n'y a pas dans mon cÂœur la moindre indifférence. Thadée a du vous dire combien nous avions partagé votre douleur."" • Autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to Alfred Natanson‎

‎Vichy 1906. Fine. Vichy 10 août 1906 11.60 x 18 cm une feuille Moving autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to the playwright and founder of the Revue Blanche Alfred Natanson when he had just lost his father. 18 lines in black ink on a folded sheet envelope included. ""Mon cher Fred Je ne vous ai pas écrit ; mais vous savez bien qu'il n'y a pas dans mon cÂœur la moindre indifférence. Thadée a dû vous dire combien nous avions partagé votre douleur. Thadée a dû vous dire souvent quelle amitié profonde j'ai pour vous. Peut-être ne vous l'ai-je pas exprimée telle que je la sens mais je la sens fortement et je voudrais bien que vous la sentiez aussi un peu. C'est un gros chagrin que de ne plus être aimé de ceux qu'on aime véritablement. Vous allez partir ; et vous faîtes bien de quitter cette maison où durant plus de six mois vous avez assisté à l'horrible agonie de votre pauvre père. Tâchez de travailler pour notre joie à tous. et revenez avec une belle Âœuvre."" ""My dear Fred I have not written to you; but you know well that there is not the slightest indifference in my heart. Thadée must have told you how much we shared your grief. Thadée must have told you often what deep friendship I have for you. Perhaps I have not expressed it to you as I feel it but I feel it strongly and I would very much like you to feel it too a little. It is a great sorrow to no longer be loved by those one truly loves. You are going to leave; and you do well to quit this house where for more than six months you witnessed the horrible agony of your poor father. Try to work for all our joy. and return with a beautiful work."". Mirbeau was particularly close to the group of the Revue Blanche since its launch in Paris in 1891. But it was since the Dreyfus affair that his intimate and lasting friendship with the Natanson brothers Thadée Alexandre and Alfred was strengthened. After aesthetic disagreements about Art Nouveau and the Nabis Mirbeau finally reunited with Thadée around 1900 in a now common inclination for the young Nabis painters of the Revue Blanche Bonnard Vallotton and Vuillard. The Revue Blanche played an essential role in France as confirmed by historian Paul-Henri Bourrelier: ""Most of the most prominent writers painters musicians politicians and intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collaborated with it or were associated with it. Created financed and directed by the three Natanson brothers young Polish Jews with the enthusiastic complicity of their classmates from the Condorcet lycée La Revue blanche quickly became a place of debate on all subjects that stirred France. It waged political battles under the impulse of anarchists like Fénéon Mirbeau; socialists such as Blum G. Moch Péguy; Dreyfusards and founders of the League of Human Rights like Reinach and Pressensé."" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73674