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Gros & Delettrez
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20th century authors and publishers.
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49
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20th century authors and publishers.
See original version (French)
Estimate €130 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
20th century authors and publishers.
Lot of autographs by modern authors and critics.
Alphonse de CHÂTEAUBRIANT.
L.A.S. Le Petit Portail (Loire-Atlantique), 26 January 1914.
2 ff. Stylishly written personal letter in which he talks about his morale and his joy at once again being able to correspond with a friend and kindred spirit, initiated into writing and the problems of writers. He talks about his forthcoming move to Versailles, where he will spend the war, and asks him about his writing and a book he is preparing on Napoleon. We know of an important correspondence between the author and Romain Rolland (L'Un et l'autre, 1914-1944, Albin Michel), starting in 1914. Rolland wrote a small pamphlet on Napoleon that has not yet appeared in print, and it is conceivable that he was the recipient of this letter. Alphonse van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (1877-1951), Catholic writer, winner of the 1911 Goncourt Prize, but an intellectual who fraternised with the Nazis (and was sentenced to death in absentia) while being a Dreyfus supporter.
COPPÉE François (1842-1908), French poet, playwright and novelist.
2 L.A.S., brown ink, 2 pp. in small in-12 format, "François Coppée" to "Mon cher Jeantet", La Fraizière, by Mandres (S.-et-O.), (s.d.). And a C.A.S. to the printed address of La Fraizière, by Mandres (S.-et-O.), (s.d.). Very fine autograph signatures. To his publisher: "Here is my article, I am ahead of schedule as you can see, and I would be much obliged if you would send me a proof without delay. About the writer Jean Blaize, he writes; "I hold this young man to be one of the elite among the new [...]." Anecdotal blemishes or faults.
-LITERARY CRITICISM. Set of 2 autograph pieces, in-12 format. A small manuscript on 7 pp. of grey paper, "Chronique sur les Livres / La Critique", n.d. (early 20th century). Fine, legible handwriting, erasures and indentations on recto. A series of notes, a sort of review of works: Le Quarantième fauteuil, by Henry; La Vie de Ernest Renan, by M. J. Darmesteter and Études de littérature européennes by Joseph Texte. A L.A.S. from Paul de Saint-Victor, French essayist and literary critic (1825-1881) on the subject of theatre, addressed to a woman. Undated.
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