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[Correspondence addressed to Pierre LOUYS]
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27
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[Correspondence addressed to Pierre LOUYS]
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
[Correspondence addressed to Pierre LOUYS]
A collection of over 80 autograph letters signed by poets, novelists, literary critics, painters and friends of Pierre Louys, comprising glowing tributes to the novelist’s works, as well as proposals for translations, adaptations, etc.:
Pierre de Régnier, the illegitimate son he had with Marie de Régnier, daughter of José-Maria de Heredia, according to his biographer Jean-Paul Goujon (4 letters signed ‘Ton vieux Tigre’) - Paul Robert, painter (14 letters and 2 postcards) - Pierre Frondaie, who maintained a literary collaboration and close friendship with Louys, leaving his mark on the theatre of the Belle Époque through adaptations of famous novels (3 letters, including one on two old postcards from St-Raphaël, one of which concerns the adaptation of the novel *Aphrodite*) - Charles-Henry Hirsch (letter with stamped envelope, regarding *Aphrodite* and his *Chrysis*: “These are, very incompletely put, the reasons why I love your book with all my heart”) - Jules Bois (handwritten letter regarding *L’Homme de Pourpre*) - Lucien Muhlfeld (handwritten letter with stamped envelope, regarding *La Femme et le Pantin*: “All feminine cunning, the sheer mischief of the exquisite sex, is contained within your few pages”) - Maurice Lalau (handwritten letter bearing his initials, wishing to “adapt” his novel *Les Aventures du Roi Pausole*) - Charles Cousin (2 letters and 30 pages of signed handwritten poems) – Myriam Harry (letter) – Robert Sherard and Esterhazy (2 letters, one of which includes a stamped envelope: ‘I have just read *La Femme et le Pantin* and am absolutely thrilled by it’) - Gabriel Volland (handwritten letter) - Albert Guillaume (handwritten letter: “I would like to tell you just how much joy I derived from reading your delightful book *Les Aventures du Roi Pausole*”) - Charles de Mouy (letter with stamped envelope: “You possess an art that resonates with as much precision as it does harmony”) - Robert Scheffer - Léopold Lacour - Roger Marx - Paul Reboux (LS) – Bernard Lazare – Frédillo, pseudonym of Louis-Alfred Boisserand (LAS: “to offer you an exchange of my series of engravings for some 8vo volumes… of *Aphrodite*”, etc., etc.)
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