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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. 2 signed autograph poems.
See original version (French)
114
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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. 2 signed autograph poems.
See original version (French)
Estimate €120 - €180
Voluntary lot
Description
Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. 2 signed autograph poems. Undated.
- ‘La Course’. 11 quatrains. 2 folio pages on blue paper.
‘Who shines so brightly in the heavens? / – It is the idea, with wings of fire! / Arise, Muse – She glides and passes / Like a star across the blue sky! /…/ We must run – the pen is slow! / Come on! Come on! Faster still! / The soul is stamping its feet, impatient, / Like a steed taking flight! /…’
- 6 quatrains on 2 pp. in-8. ‘To Mr M. Lyonnet. With permission for publication and setting to music”
“You wish to reach me, but do you know who I am? / I am the swift gazelle / I outpace the breeze and arrive before it / When the Arab threatens me, I flee to the desert. /… ”
See original version (French)
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