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88 - Charles-Ferdinand RAMUZ (1878–1947).
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Estimate €300 - €400
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Charles-Ferdinand RAMUZ (1878–1947). Letter from the author, La Muette, Pully, 9 October 1945, to Frédéric LEFÈVRE, editor of *Les Nouvelles Littéraires*; 2 pages, in-8 format, stamped envelope. He thanks him for sending him ‘Mr Chastain, who managed to craft an entire article from the answers that this poor student of mine gave during his oral exams’. He congratulates Lefèvre on having got *Les Nouvelles Littéraires* back on its feet “amidst universal chaos and in the midst of a paper crisis. If only it were just the paper? ’ He is ‘slowly recovering from a series of unpleasant and trying operations’. He would like to receive payment of his fees. ‘I’m owed loads of money all over the place: I receive nothing, I’m alone and at the end of the world. That’s what they call peace’...
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About the sale AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS – PENNED BY HISTORY’S GREAT FIGURES
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Auction time 09/18/2026 at 2:00 PM
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