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One of Dumas Fils’s earliest poetic works.
See original version (French)
104
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One of Dumas Fils’s earliest poetic works.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €250
Voluntary lot
Description
One of Dumas Fils’s earliest poetic works.
Alexandre DUMAS Fils. Signed autograph poem. May 1841.
4 quatrains on an in-8 leaf.
‘Who could ever have said, save God alone, / That this young woman in her white gown, / Bowing before the altar from which happiness flows, / Would, a year later, have her veil as her shroud /… ”
Dated May 1841 (Alexandre was then 17 years old), it was published in the author’s *Péchés de jeunesse* with variations and dated May 1843.
Also included:
Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. Early poetry. Signed autograph manuscript. 5 pp. ½ in-8. Lamalou, 21 September 1793.
‘To Monsieur [name crossed out], who knows as well as I do what to make of the person in question.
With one exception in the whole world / I declare there is no blonde / To whom one might compare you, / That no skin is as white as yours…”
See original version (French)
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