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1896réf. 86610Paris 1896. Fine. Paris 1896 13 x 20.50 cm 3 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Pierre Louÿs addressed to his publisher Alfred Vallette 50 lines written in purple ink on a double sheet. Pierre Louÿs responds to his friend and publisher Alfred Vallette after a controversy launched by a journalist from Comoedia a controversy that could damage their friendship: ""Je ne suis pour rien dans l'écho publié par Comoedia. Mais ce que vous en citez suffit à me montrer que le rédacteur s'est mal informé."" ""I had nothing to do with the piece published by Comoedia. But what you quote from it is enough to show me that the writer was misinformed."" and he intends to remind him that they had not been able to agree on the publishing terms for Aphrodite and that he envisioned only a confidential distribution for his latest book: ""L'histoire de notre édition est très simple. Vous m'avez proposé un traité que je n'ai pas trouvé bon ; j'ai préféré le ""compte d'auteur"" et je ne peux pas vous accuser d'avoir mal prévu le succès du livre puisque moi-même j'avais écrit mon roman pour vingt amis et quelques inconnus."" ""The story of our edition is very simple. You offered me a contract that I did not find good; I preferred the 'author's account' and I cannot accuse you of having poorly predicted the book's success since I myself had written my novel for twenty friends and a few strangers."" This is why the father of Aphrodite is astonished by the triumph achieved by the work: ""Si une diseuse de bonne aventure nous avait prédit alors qu'Aphrodite dépasserait un jour le 300e mille nous l'aurions traitée comme une pauvre folle."" ""If a fortune teller had predicted then that Aphrodite would one day exceed 300000 copies we would have treated her as a poor madwoman.""; the latter consecrating his fame and wealth in the literary world: ""J'ai en outre une seconde raison pour ne pas vous en vouloir du traité que j'ai signé avec vous : c'est qu'en préservant mes droits d'autuer sur ce roman j'ai fait sans le savoir ma fortune. C'est à cela seul que je dois mon indépendance littéraire et cette inestimable liberté du silence qui n'est pas l'idéal de tous mais qui me paraît être le bonheur du poëte."" ""I have furthermore a second reason for not resenting the contract I signed with you: it is that by preserving my author's rights on this novel I made my fortune without knowing it. It is to this alone that I owe my literary independence and this invaluable freedom of silence which is not everyone's ideal but which seems to me to be the poet's happiness."" Very fine autograph on Pierre Louÿs's literary triumph. unknown
1866réf. 866021866. Fine. lundi soir 1866 13.30 x 20.90 cm une page sur un bifeuillet Autograph letter signed by Alexandre Dumas to his mistress Marie Richon. 6 lines on one page of a bifolium of laid paper with the writer's crowned initials. « Chère amoi sic Ton ami arrivé moulu brisé de deux nuits de voitures et de chemins de fer. Il t'attend demain soir mardi. Oh ce sera avec grand bonheur qu'il s'assurera que toutes choses sont dans l'état où il les a laissées a toi » Nothing is known of this affair with Marie Richon addressed to this mistress evidently sensitive to literature ""Fais-moi de bons vers pour mon retour"" he requests of her in another note. Actress society woman or woman of learning the mystery remains complete around this character who inspires in the insatiable Dumas a torrid correspondence. He notably arranged meetings with his mysterious conquest at his residence on Boulevard Haussmann where he had settled from 1865 onwards. A sentence from Dumas in another note tells us that she even met Dumas's daughter who lived with her father and endured the visits of his mistresses ""elle t'adore - ou plutôt nous t'adorons"" he would write to her. This missive can probably be situated during 1866 when the writer was preparing the theatrical adaptation of his novel Gabriel Lambert and mentions in a letter a reading of the play created at the Ambigu-Comique on March 16 1866. The last years of his life did not belie his immeasurable love of women; during this period rich in adventures he also shared his nights with the feminist and gerontophile Olympe Audouard as well as the famous Adah Isaacs Menken whose portraits alongside the writer were divulged by their indiscreet photographer. Handsome letter filled with anticipation from the hand of the great writer and addressed to a mysterious mistress still unknown to biographers. unknown
1980réf. 86623Rhodes 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
1936réf. 86641Aix-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
1955réf. 86656Paris 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
1884réf. 86671s. 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
1923réf. 86631Le 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 youthas Rosa Josepha said one sustains the other one preserves the otherand 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 heretime 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. Â unknown
1945réf. 86737s. 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
1938réf. 86686Lyon 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
1884réf. 86688Bellevue 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
1941réf. 86762Paris 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
1889réf. 86970Paris 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
1841réf. 87125s. 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
1976réf. 87298Fleury-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
1908réf. 84543Paris 1908. Fine. Paris 1er Juillet 1908 11.50 x 14 cm une feuille Autograph signed note by Pierre Loti signed and addressed to Julia Daudet wife of Alphonse 12 lines in black ink on a pneumatic card Inherent fold mark a date has been inscribed in pencil probably that of the note's receipt. Pierre Loti wishes to meet Julia Daudet and asks about her availability: ""Are you still in Paris"" ""You would be infinitely kind to indicate one or two hours for an appointment given the complications of my life."" unknown
1978réf. 84596Paris 1978. Fine. Paris s. d. 1978 14.50 x 20.50 cm une feuille Important autograph letter signed by Julien Gracq 53 lines in black ink addressed to his close friend and monographer Ariel Denis establishing him as his biographer. Julien Gracq expresses his regret that his friend Ariel Denis was not selected despite his intervention by the Berlin Academy to teach: ""Je vous avais recommandé de mon mieux mais je doute que cela ait été en Allemagne d'une grande efficacité. Je sais d'ailleurs que comme vous le pressentiez les concurents étaient en nombre."" ""I recommended you as best I could but I doubt that was very effective in Germany. I know moreover that as you suspected there were many competitors."" To help his friend the author of Rivage des Syrtes suggested to publisher Seghers who wanted to publish a work about him in his famous ""Poètes d'aujourd'hui"" collection the name of Ariel Denis having had no news from the first biographer considered for this publication: ""Ils me demandent de leur suggérer un nom. J'ai indiqué celui de Lautrat. Et j'ai indiqué le vôtre ne sachant bien sûr aucunement si un travail de ce genre pourrait vous plaire. Il va de soi que si Seghers s'adressait à vous vous devez être absolument libre d'accepter ou de refuser."" ""They ask me to suggest a name. I indicated Lautrat's. And I indicated yours not knowing of course at all whether work of this kind might please you. It goes without saying that if Seghers approached you you must be absolutely free to accept or refuse."" He also hopes to see his friend again soon before the summer holidays: "". si je ne vous revois pas avant juillet je vous souhiate des vacances à la fois paisibles et laborieuses en comptant vous revoir d'ici l'automne."" "".if I don't see you again before July I wish you holidays that are both peaceful and productive counting on seeing you again by autumn."" He concludes his letter with his judgments as an informed cinephile: ""J'ai surtout revu des films de Tati et je me suis beaucoup ennuyé dans une salle déserte au film de Mme Sagan."" ""I mainly rewatched Tati films and I was very bored in a deserted theater by Mme Sagan's film."" At Julien Gracq's instigation Ariel Denis would indeed accept Seghers' proposal to publish a volume in his ""Poètes d'aujourd'hui"" collection about the author of Au château d'Argol thereby becoming one of his best and most remarkable biographers. unknown
1940réf. 84633Perpignan 1940. Fine. Perpignan juillet 1940 21 x 27 cm deux pages sur un feuillet Autograph letter by Jean Cocteau signed with his famous star addressed to his great love the actor Jean Marais. Dated by the author July 1940. One and a half pages in black ink on a sheet. Two small marginal tears not affecting the text. Traces of transverse folds inherent to posting. Magnificent love letter from Cocteau to Marais who formed one of the most legendary artistic couples of the 20th century. Against the backdrop of defeat and German Occupation their unbreakable bond is embodied in this letter from the writer with its desperate accents. Published in the Lettres à Jean Marais 1987 p. 157. This missive from a love-stricken Cocteau was written shortly after the Armistice of June 22 1940 marking the end of the French defeat. Marais mobilized had joined the front in May 1940 while Cocteau had taken refuge in Perpignan. Communication in these troubled times proved difficult: ""Mon Jeannot j'attends toujours ta réponse mais avec une confiance absolue. Ce n'est pas pour rien que notre étoile nous a rapprochés l'un de l'autre et sans doute fallait-il que mes lettres ne t'arrivent pas et que je souffre de mon silence"" ""My Jeannot I am still waiting for your response but with absolute confidence. It is not for nothing that our star brought us closer to one another and no doubt it was necessary that my letters not reach you and that I suffer from my silence"" ""Tu es né chef je suis né chef. Et sous notre étoile rien de ce que nous . ne peut s'annexer ni se perdre. Le principal est de se taire et d'attendre. entre guillemets : les choses ont une manière à elles d'arriver."" C'est à nous de le savoir et de les laisser faire ."" ""You were born a leader I was born a leader. And under our star nothing of what we . can be annexed or lost. The main thing is to remain silent and wait. in quotation marks: things have their own way of happening."" It is up to us to know this and let them do so ."" The Cocteau - Marais partnership would soon return to Paris and endure the torments of the German occupation which would ban the revival of their scandalous play Les Parents terribles which had enjoyed great success in 1939. unknown
1976réf. 84696Fleury-Mérogis 1976. Fine. Fleury-Mérogis 31 Décembre 1976 21 x 29.50 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter dated and signed by Jacques Mesrine dated Friday December 31st 1976 approximately 70 lines in blue ink on one recto verso page addressed to his love of the time Jeanne Schneider thanks to whom the manuscript of Instinct de mort was discreetly smuggled out of prison. Jacques Mesrine then incarcerated at Fleury-Mérogis prison wondered about the difficulties he might encounter if his Instinct de mort were to appear soon and with which sufficiently courageous publisher it could be edited: ""Je vais voir avec mon avocate pour les ""presses de la cité"" car je crois que l'on peut tirer un trait sur Simone. De toute façon il sera publié par celui acceptera d'en courir le risque"" ""I'm going to see with my lawyer about the ""presses de la cité"" because I think we can draw a line under Simone. In any case it will be published by whoever will accept to run the risk"" He also advised his beloved on her working conditions: ""Au sujet de ton boulot. j'espère que tu as discuté avec ta patronne car les horaires ne sont pas légaux. ne te laisse pas faire à ce sujet. Vis à vis du procureur tu es obligé de travailler. cela ne veut pas dire être esclave au boulot."" ""About your job. I hope you discussed with your boss because the hours are not legal. don't let yourself be taken advantage of on this subject. With regard to the prosecutor you are obliged to work. that doesn't mean being a slave at work."" and worried about the future of his daughter Sabrina: ""Demain j'espère la visite de la puce. je vais avoir une très sérieuse conversation avec elle au sujet de l'avenir. Car elle ne fait rien en classe. donc le mieux pour elle est de travailler pour obtenir un CAP en quelque chose. Elle veut jouer les adultes. alors il va falloir qu'elle se conduise en adulte."" ""Tomorrow I hope for a visit from the little one. I'm going to have a very serious conversation with her about the future. Because she does nothing in class. so the best thing for her is to work to get a vocational certificate in something. She wants to play at being an adult. so she'll have to behave like an adult."" Public enemy No. 1 evoked the coming new year: "".l'année nouvelle qui s'annonce. que nous réservera-t-elle. je l'ignore mais rien de bon si la logique se fait loi. cela ne m'empêchera pas de garder mon moral."" "".the new year that is coming. what will it hold for us. I don't know but nothing good if logic becomes law. that won't stop me from keeping my morale up."" Jacques Mesrine alone in his cell on the evening of December 31st New Year's Eve ended this beautiful letter with affectionate thoughts for Jeanne Schneider: ""Ce soir j'ai la tête un peu vide. tu comprends mais j'ai le coeur plein de toi et c'est cela qui compte. je vais me mettre dans les draps et penser à toi. Ton vieux voyou pose de tendres bécots sur tout ce qui est toi. Bonne nuit chaton. Te quiero."" ""Tonight my head is a bit empty. you understand but my heart is full of you and that's what counts. I'm going to get into the sheets and think of you. Your old rogue places tender kisses on everything that is you. Good night kitten. Te quiero."" and with this humorous note: "".tu connais cette blague : c'est une femme condamnée à mort. arrivée devant la guillotine elle embrasse le verre que l'on vient de lui servir. Le procureur demande : ""elle est folle que fait-elle"". L'avocat lui répond ""elle embrasse son dernier rhum"" Pas mal hein. un petit sourire ma puce."" "".do you know this joke: it's a woman condemned to death. arrived in front of the guillotine she kisses the glass that has just been served to her. The prosecutor asks: ""is she crazy what is she doing"". The lawyer replies ""she's kissing her last rum"" Not bad eh. a little smile my darling."" Rare and very beautiful letter from Jacques Mesrine in which we see him preoccupied with his daughter's future where he sho unknown
1976réf. 84739Fleury-Mérogis 1976. Fine. Fleury-Mérogis 21 Octobre 1976 21 x 29.50 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter signed and dated by Jacques Mesrine dated Thursday October 21 1976 70 lines in blue ink on one recto-verso page addressed to his lover at the time Jeanne Schneider thanks to whom the manuscript of Instinct de mort was discreetly smuggled out of prison. Jacques Mesrine then incarcerated at Fleury-Mérogis prison rejoices at having been able to speak with his beloved in the visiting room who was also imprisoned: ""What a very pleasant visit you were moreover very feminine in that outfit which is very much in your style as a woman. even worth double the price because I like it"" and attempts to reassure her so that she does not lose all fight against the prison system that crushes inmates: ""But if by misfortune a new refusal should affect you do not have that bad reaction you told me about because those who surround you and have helped you do not deserve to pay for the injustice of others. You will have to face it as always. Because the doors will open one day and you know it."" As a protective patriarch Jacques Mesrine worries about the despair that could strike her and her daughter Murielle placed with social services: ""But I worry enormously about you because you have a limit. and I believe you have reached it! or almost. Regarding Mury and that bogus judge. we will see about removing her from social services. I prefer to pay for her studies and Mrs. Chevallier and all her upkeep if necessary. If you get out! Tell me. so many women to support. I'd better work overtime sic"" Public enemy No. 1 evokes Jeanne Schneider's upcoming freedom while ordering her not to fall back into criminality: "".If you get out formal prohibition from getting involved with me on a level that we both understand very well. I don't want to see you in prison anymore because you outside is a little bit of myself that will be free. You give your word for this freedom. prove that we others always keep it in good times as in bad"" Jacques Mesrine praises his companion's integrity the keystone of their strong union through the deprivation of freedom: ""This is what unites us most; criminals dangerous. but honest. This is what makes me love you with you no unpleasant surprises; you are 'white-blue' and for me you have the value of a diamond. It is the only stone that is harder than steel sic. but less hard than me resic"" He ends this missive with this humorous note reflecting the terrible intrusive reality of the penitentiary system: ""And if my Christmas package is prepared by you. the administration will X-ray it"" but also with these tender words: ""Sweet kisses rest on your lips. gesture of love that has united us always and for a long time. EL VIEJO Bandido!"" Rare and very beautiful letter from Jacques Mesrine in which we discover him protective and eager for freedom for his companion and for whom honesty must be erected as a rule of life. unknown
1976réf. 84675Paris 1976. Fine. Paris 11 Octobre 1976 21 x 29.50 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter dated and signed by Jacques Mesrine dated Monday October 11 1976 70 lines in blue ink on one recto-verso page addressed to his love of the time Jeanne Schneider thanks to whom the manuscript of Instinct de mort was discreetly smuggled out of prison. Jacques Mesrine then incarcerated at La Santé showers with gifts the people he loves because he wants their happiness: ""Comme cela j'ai payé une mobylette à mes trois gamines. Toi ce sera une quatre roues sic."" ""Like this I paid for a moped for my three girls. For you it will be four wheels sic."" He shows all his affection for a young girl named Betty whom he seems to cherish more than his own daughter Sabrina: ""Peut-être que je recherche en Betty ce que je ne trouve pas en Sabrina et que Mury m'a refusé ! Tu sais mon ange ; à 15 ans j'aurais tellement aimé avoir un copain de 40 ans à qui je puisse tout dire qui sache m'aider ou m'offrir mon rêve. Peut-être que ce cadeau je me le fais à moi-même."" ""Maybe I'm looking for in Betty what I don't find in Sabrina and what Mury refused me! You know my angel; at 15 I would have loved so much to have a 40-year-old friend to whom I could tell everything who would know how to help me or offer me my dream. Maybe this gift I'm giving it to myself."" for whom he has no more confidence feeling betrayed: ""Mais on ne devient jamais l'ami de quelqu'un qui vous juge. Pas plus que pour Sabrina ! qui elle m'a trompé dans ma confiance donc dans mon amour. Quand on use les sentiments ils ne redeviennent jamais les mêmes."" ""But one never becomes the friend of someone who judges you. No more than with Sabrina! who deceived my trust and therefore my love. When feelings are worn out they never become the same again."" Public enemy No. 1 takes great pride in his relationship with Jeanne Schneider based on honesty: ""C'est peut-être pour cela que je me suis toujours refusé à te mentir - quitte à te faire souffir. Je n'ai aucun passé.mais un seul présent ""Toi"". C'est peut-être cela qui fait que notre amour dure depuis 10 ans "" ""Maybe that's why I've always refused to lie to you - even if it means making you suffer. I have no past.but only one present 'You'. Maybe that's what makes our love last for 10 years "" Jacques Mesrine then turns to material considerations so important for a prisoner: ""J'ai reçu ton linge. Je ne risque pas d'avoir froid cet hiver. Le polo est très bien."" ""I received your clothes. I won't risk being cold this winter. The polo shirt is very good."" before castigating the inhumanity of the prison system and its indifference to suffering: ""Mais nous n'avons rien à attendre des juges et si ma lettre au président a été ferme c'est le genre de lettre qu'il comprendra mieux que le style ventre à terre."" ""But we have nothing to expect from judges and if my letter to the president was firm it's the kind of letter he will understand better than the groveling style."" As an eternally untamed man Jacques Mesrine never ceases to advocate fighting against the prison administration: ""On ne se défend pas en mettant sa tête dans le sable comme l'autruche ! Dès l'instant où l'on prend une arme dans la main. il faut s'attendre à payer ! que Michou le comprenne ce n'est pas le moment d'être ""bébé"" mais celui d'être femme."" ""You don't defend yourself by putting your head in the sand like an ostrich! From the moment you take a weapon in your hand. you must expect to pay! let Michou understand this is not the time to be a 'baby' but to be a woman."" Jacques Mesrine ends this beautiful letter with a moving declaration of love full of optimistic humor: ""Ton vieux tigre pose de doux bécots sur tout ce qui est toi. Bonne nuit chaton et un moral d'acier est de rigueur ok. Je t'adore chanceuse & Ton mystère Jacques !! ""Te adoro A toi seule."" ""Your old tiger puts gentle kisses on everything that is you. Good night kitten and a steel hardcover
1976réf. 84669Paris 1976. Fine. Paris 12 Octobre 1976 21 x 29.50 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter dated and signed by Jacques Mesrine dated Tuesday October 12 1976 70 lines in blue ink on one recto-verso page addressed to his love of the time Jeanne Schneider thanks to whom the manuscript of Instinct de mort was discreetly smuggled out of prison. Jacques Mesrine then incarcerated at La Santé shows great tenderness and reveals himself in another light that of the affectionate and attentive lover: ""Bonsoir petite fille. tu aimes bien jouer ""au St Bernard"" tu ne changeras jamais à ce sujet. C'est toi qui a 7 ans 1/2 de taule et tu dois remonter le moral des ""gamines"" qui ont joué du calibre !"" ""Good evening little girl. you like to play 'the St Bernard' you'll never change about that. You're the one who has 7 and a half years of jail and you have to cheer up the 'girls' who played with guns!"" He praises and is somewhat amazed by his companion's devotion to a couple of young criminals: ""Tu me parles d'une sentence de 20 ans pour elle ! tu rigoles ou quoi. elle ne peut pas prendre plus de 8 ans je la vois plutôt avec 5 ou 6 si les choses s'arrangent. Son mari avec 20 ans au maximum."" ""You talk to me about a 20-year sentence for her! are you kidding or what. she can't get more than 8 years I see her more with 5 or 6 if things work out. Her husband with 20 years maximum."" and tries to transmit all his optimism his pugnacity and to cheer her up: ""Tu sais ma puce; quand tu m'écris que la cause de Michou est une cause perdue d'avance je ne te comprends plus. Il n'y a pas de cause perdue d'avance. Dans la vie il faut se battre jusqu'au bout. tu sais pourtant ce que cela représente. Tu vois moi je vais au maximum ! et pourtant je vais me défendre toutes dents dehors. Car ma liberté il faudra me la prendre. Je ne la donnerai pas faute de combat !"" ""You know my darling; when you write to me that Michou's cause is a lost cause from the start I don't understand you anymore. There is no lost cause from the start. In life you have to fight to the end. you know what that represents though. You see I'm going for the maximum! and yet I'm going to defend myself tooth and nail. Because my freedom will have to be taken from me. I won't give it up for lack of fighting!"" Jacques Mesrine also evokes his love of horse racing while boasting of being a betting specialist: ""Oui j'avais joué ""Dernier tango"" mais seulement à la place. J'avais 2000frs dessus je gagne donc 6000frs. Ce n'est pas de la chance mais un savant calcul. Il m'arrive de perdre mais avec ma méthode je suis obligé d'être gagnant. Forécement pour la suivre il faut un certain capital. J'ai mis plus d'un an à faire tous les calculs de probabilité. Cela doit me rapporter à peu près 7000frs par mois. Net d'impots sic."" ""Yes I had bet on 'Dernier tango' but only for place. I had 2000frs on it so I win 6000frs. It's not luck but a scientific calculation. I sometimes lose but with my method I have to be a winner. Obviously to follow it you need a certain capital. I spent more than a year doing all the probability calculations. It should bring me about 7000frs per month. Net of taxes sic."" He ironizes about his situation as a prisoner having plenty of time to devise his financial gain strategies: ""J'ai aussi mis au point une méthode pour le jeu de baccara. Que veux-tu. j'ai le temps de calculer un tac de choses sic ! Tu me comprends . L'administration aussi ! resic. "" ""I also developed a method for baccarat. What do you want. I have time to calculate a bunch of things sic! You understand me . The administration too! resic."" but deplores his impossibility to continue writing Instinct de mort: "". je suis actuellement incapable d'écrire une page de mon bouquin. je ne sais pas comment tourner ce passage-là. enfin je vais bien trouver la solution."" "". I am currently unable to write a page of my book. I don't know how to phrase this passag unknown
1923réf. 84822Pantelleria 1923. Fine. Pantelleria 22 Juin 1923 21 x 27 cm deux pages sur un feuillet Autograph letter dated and signed by Jean-Baptiste Charcot known as Commandant Charcot on Pourquoi pas letterhead 56 lines written in blue ink on a single leaf recto-verso addressed to his friend Raymond Hovasse. Folds from mailing ink faded. Adverse weather conditions prolonged a Mediterranean cruise that was initially meant to last only four days: ""Mais comme la caractérisation de cette croisière depuis que nous avons quitté la Provence est le coup de vent qui dure trois jours puis 1 jour de calme et de nouveau 3 jours de vent nous travaillons 1 jour et tachons de nous abriter qq. part pendant les 3 mauvais. Et cela peut durer longtemps ainsi."" The explorer nevertheless found some interest in this navigation disrupted and made difficult by the weather: ""Par ailleurs notre tournée n'a pas manqué de charme l'Orient en a toujours mais ce sale temps l'a empêché probablement d'être aussi fructueuse qu'elle aurait pu l'être le temps parce qu'il va falloir songer au retour."" This voyage also gave Jean-Baptiste Charcot the opportunity to become better acquainted with his friend and his family: ""J'ai été tout particulièrement enchanté d'avoir l'honneur et le plaisir d'être présenté à votre femme et de connaître vos gosses et d'entrer ainsi un peu dans votre vie familiale j'ai été également très heureux de vous avoir pendant qq heures à bord de nouveau."" which he hoped to repeat if the sea deities remained favorable: "". si le bateau reste jeune. si tous les maîtres de la mer me permettent de continuer."" Upon his return to Paris the navigator promised to intercede on his behalf and was confident that his efforts would be rewarded: "". je serais bien étonné si je n'obtenais pas satisfaction."" unknown
1929réf. 84821Angers 1929. Fine. Angers 25 Septembre 1929 13.50 x 20.50 cm quatre pages sur un feuillet double Autograph letter dated and signed by Renée Guilloux about friendship that transcends and sublimes human relationships 80 lines written in black ink on four pages. Folds inherent to mailing small tears at foot without any damage to the text. For Renée Guilloux the friendship she feels for her correspondent dominates distance and silence: "". est-ce que les mots ont su dire la joie des coeurs."" ""have words been able to express the joy of hearts."" and momentary disagreements: ""Mais tous ces mois toutes ces années nous pesaient douloureusement. J'avais l'impression que vous vous étiez mis d'un seul coup à parler très vite avec beaucoup d'agitation dans une langue qui m'était étrangère. mais je savais que ce n'était qu'un moment et qu'après nous reprendrions notre conversation rentable."" ""But all these months all these years weighed on us painfully. I had the impression that you had suddenly started speaking very quickly with great agitation in a language that was foreign to me. but I knew it was only a moment and that afterwards we would resume our profitable conversation."" Despite life's vicissitudes Louis Guilloux and his wife have always shown confidence in the brotherhood that unites them above all: ""J'attendais votre retour dans la certitude dans la paix et bien qu'il n'y ait pas de paroles écrites entre nous votre amitié m'apportait toujours sa même force et sa même joie."" ""I awaited your return with certainty in peace and although there were no written words between us your friendship always brought me the same strength and the same joy."" and in the serenity acquired after so many ordeals endured: ""Vous nous avez trouvés transformés dites-vous grandis. cette paix c'est notre conquête la plus belle. après les inquiétudes et les souffrances."" ""You found us transformed you say grown. this peace is our most beautiful conquest. after the anxieties and sufferings."" Renée Guilloux praises this radiating peace that she shares with her friend: ""Cette paix qui est en nous elle est aussi vôtre cher ami et vous avez grandi comme nous. je pense au rêve de Don Quichotte aux paroles qu'il echange avec Dulcinée. Elles sont pleines de cette lumière."" ""This peace that is in us it is also yours dear friend and you have grown like us. I think of Don Quixote's dream of the words he exchanges with Dulcinea. They are full of this light."" Finally she is reassured by her husband's health which is improving and which allows him to return to his writing work. unknown
1976réf. 84900Fleury-Mérogis 1976. Fine. ""Le pire que l'on puisse faire à un juge c'est lui enlever toute autorité devant les autres et crois moi il l'a bien compris"" ""The worst thing you can do to a judge is to remove all his authority in front of others and believe me he understood it well"" Fleury-Mérogis 2 Décembre1976 21 x 29.50 cm une page recto verso Autograph letter dated and signed by Jacques Mesrine dated Thursday December 2 1976 65 lines in blue ink on one recto-verso page addressed to his love at the time Jeanne Schneider thanks to whom the manuscript of Instinct de mort was discreetly smuggled out of prison. Jacques Mesrine then incarcerated at Fleury-Mérogis prison feels unwell and helpless far from his companion and from all human warmth: ""Ce soir je suis très mal foutu. il est 19 heures et je me couche juste après la fin de ta lettre. de rien de grave. juste une grande fatigue à rien faire"" ""Tonight I feel really awful. it's 7 PM and I'm going to bed just after finishing your letter. nothing serious. just very tired from doing nothing"" As a good father Jacques Mesrine rejoices in his daughter's happiness: ""Je suis heureux que sa veste lui plaise. de plus c'est la mode. son Loïc chéri ne va plus la reconnaître."" ""I'm happy that she likes her jacket. plus it's fashionable. her dear Loïc won't recognize her anymore."" and shows himself neither surprised nor more than amused that his daughter wants to embrace the Jewish religion: ""Comme cela la puce veut prendre la religion juive. encore une idée à elle. oui je sais elle a fait croire à ses copains qu'elle était juive. car eux l'étaient.si cela l'amuse je la laisse libre. mais ça démontre aussi un dédoublement de personnalité."" ""So the little one wants to take up the Jewish religion. another one of her ideas. yes I know she made her friends believe she was Jewish. because they were. if it amuses her I leave her free. but it also shows a split personality."" Public enemy No. 1 evokes with a certain pride his latest confrontation with his judge a fierce revenge of the insubordinate against the penitentiary universe that crushes men: ""Aujourd'hui j'ai eu la visite du juge Madre. Tu aurais rigolé car il a eu droit à tout mon vocabulaire. il en perdait la parole j'ai pris mon pied sic A un moment il me dit ""mais c'est quand même moi qui commande. Réponse de ton bibi : ""Ici pédé"" c'est moi ton patron"". Il était vert et les flics se marraient comme des perdus."" ""Today I had a visit from Judge Madre. You would have laughed because he got my full vocabulary. he was speechless I had a ball At one point he tells me 'but I'm still the one in charge. Your boy's response: 'Here faggot I'm your boss.' He was green and the cops were laughing like crazy."" and against all submission to any form of power or violence: ""Le pire que l'on puisse faire à un juge c'est lui enlever toute autorité devant les autres et crois moi il l'a bien compris. Il était venu avec 5 anti-commandos. L'un avait la bombe de gaz à la main. au cas où Loin d'être impressionné. cela me rend con."" ""The worst thing you can do to a judge is to remove all his authority in front of others and believe me he understood it well. He had come with 5 anti-commandos. One had the gas canister in his hand. just in case Far from being impressed. it makes me crazy."" The eternal rebel ends his letter with a beautiful testimony of tenderness for his beloved: ""Là ma puce je vais prendre mon lit en marche.Ton vieux voyou pose ses lèvres sur le tiennes en une douce caresse d'amour. je t'adore petite fille. car nous sommes réellement le ""couple"" et plus encore. Bonne nuit chaton."" ""There my little one I'm going to take to my bed. Your old rogue places his lips on yours in a sweet caress of love. I adore you little girl. because we are truly the 'couple' and even more. Good night kitten."" Rare and very fine letter by Jacques Mesrin unknown
1904réf. 84876s. l. 1904. Fine. Because I also want success I am extremely material in my wishes for those I love and I wish them every pleasure from the highest to the crudest. s. l. mardi 25 octobre 1904 12.60 x 20.40 cm 12 pages sur 3 bifeuillets Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust addressed to René Peter. Twelve pages written in black ink on three bifolia framed in black. Tears at the ends along the folds of the bifolia not affecting the text. Published in Kolb IV n°168. A very long letter from Proust full of innuendo to the playwright René Peter. Praising Peter's success Proust confesses to his own vanity as a writer and his literary ambitions. He subtly lets his jealousy for Peter's mistress shine through and declares his absolute devotion to Reynaldo Hahn. This is one of the first letters he sends to his childhood friend after recently reconnecting with him. Proust eternally plagued by ailments remains a recluse and apologizes for missing the rehearsal of Peter's new play Le Chiffon. Peter's three-act comedy with music by Reynaldo Hahn premiered at the Athénée the following month and was a huge success with around sixty performances before the end of the year. The young Proust relies on the glowing opinion of Hahn who had attended the rehearsals and the missive becomes a love letter for the composer and his impeccable judgement: ""Reynaldo told me that your play was delightful and ravishing which is not quite the same thing that he laughed and cried in it as he never laughs or cries in the theater and that the language was exquisite. Of that I was certain. But knowing nothing about you I couldn't know if you had dramatic genius. I am certain of it now because even if I do not know a judge as severe as ridiculously severe as Reynaldo I also do not know one who has more taste giving his enthusiasm very great value in my eyes. In a characteristic tangle of confession and denial Proust barely hides his ambitions and his quest for recognition. He hopes and prays for the same laurels he places on Peter's head: your poor and charming mother who like all those who love and who have lived life bruising all our tenderness has suffered so much is witnessing this great happiness these first rays of glory on your charming forehead which Vauvenargues says softer as the rising sun. I only speak of them in quotations having never known them myself! He will even end up instilling his own literary vocation into the fictional life of the narrator of In Search of Lost Time although the narrator's journey as a man of letters is more marked by disappointments than rays of glory so long awaited by Proust himself. However it culminates in Time Regained with an epiphany: the narrator now knows what to write and above all how to write it. The letter marks the beginnings of the Proust-Peter-Hahn trio whose complicity was such that they formed a special vocabulary of which only they had the secret. The river of words in this letter perfectly illustrates the undeniable link between desire and intellectual admiration: Because I also want success I am extremely material in my wishes for those I love and I wish them every pleasure from the highest to the crudest. Despite these displays of generosity the writer cannot however mask a certain jealousy towards Robert Danceny the fictional co-author of Le Chiffon who was none other than Peter's mistress Mme Dansaërt. Proust elegantly but explicitly refers to her: It makes me happy to think that the charming woman who I am assured is hiding under the male name of your collaborator shares half of your work. I am not talking about your success because whether she worked with you or not she would always have shared your success with her heart having I believe a deep friendship for you. Typical of a Proust transposing his desires through fiction the writer will form various dramatic and morbid scenarios between Peter and this young woman in the following years: I unknown
