349 - Jean-Baptiste GRESSET (1709–1777).
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Estimate €400 - €500

Description

Jean-Baptiste GRESSET (1709–1777). Autograph manuscript, Stances…; 4 pages, in-4. Drafts of poems. The double-leaf sheet is filled with verses jotted down on the paper, with numerous crossings-out, corrections and marginal additions. In addition to the Stanzas: ‘Winter no longer covers our countryside with ice’… (8 quatrains), there is an early version with marginal additions of the ‘Unpublished Epistle’ To M***, published in the Bulletin de l’Académie ébroïcienne (1834): ‘Since I must reply to you / To remain your friend / From the realms of the other world / this note shall be delivered to you’… (around a hundred lines)…

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About the sale Letters and Autograph Manuscripts – Part II

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Auction time 10/14/2026 at 2:00 PM

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349 - Jean-Baptiste GRESSET (1709–1777). See original version (French)

349 - Jean-Baptiste GRESSET (1709–1777).
See original version (French)