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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. ‘On the Feet of Madame X’.
See original version (French)
115
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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. ‘On the Feet of Madame X’.
See original version (French)
Estimate €120 - €180
Voluntary lot
Description
Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. ‘On the Feet of Madame X’. Autograph poem, signed. Undated. 1 p. ½ folio on blue paper.
‘One Sunday, God, who had nothing to do / For on Sundays, one never works in heaven / Was bored, I am told, and thinking to amuse himself / Wished to create a woman, and to do so to the best of his ability. / It was you he had in mind – and here is God, Madame / Who begins his work and, with a breath, creates the soul /… / The angels and the saints, obedient to the laws of heaven / Awaiting Monday, heavenly labourers, / Were sleeping, having closed their workshops /…’
See original version (French)
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