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Daguerre Savoie
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Gréville (Alice Marie Céleste Durand, née Fleury), Henry – S…
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132
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Gréville (Alice Marie Céleste Durand, née Fleury), Henry – S…
See original version (French)
Estimate
€25 - €35
Voluntary lot
Description
Gréville (Alice Marie Céleste Durand, née Fleury), Henry – Signed letter card with letterhead – Letter card bearing the letterhead featuring the intertwined letters ‘DG’ (Durand-Gréville), sent from Paris on 2 March, 16 lines. The author, 1842–1902 (Alice Marie Céleste Durand, née Fleury), a woman of letters in the mould of George Sand, adopted a man’s name as her pen name: Henry Gréville. A prolific writer, who tried her hand at plays as well as short stories, poetry as well as novels, she was even a successful author. ‘Here, dear Miss, is the little play in question; I have rewritten it from start to finish; not a single line of the original text remains which [...] was not worthy of the actors of the Comédie Française. [...] I have a terrible headache and my memory is a little failing...”
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ID: 88412508
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