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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. *La Femme de Claude*.
See original version (French)
127
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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. *La Femme de Claude*.
See original version (French)
Estimate €120 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. *La Femme de Claude*. Play. With a preface. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1873.
In-8, plum-coloured half-calf, covers and spine preserved, untrimmed, paper slightly browned.
[2 ff.], LXXXI pp., [1 f.], 87 pp., engraved portrait added on China paper. Special edition, not sold commercially and presented by Dumas the Younger to his friends, printed in a run of 31 copies; this one on unlined Holland paper.
Vicaire III, 476.
Bound at the head:
Autograph signed letter from Cham, 8 December 1859, 1 p. in-8, envelope.
The play premiered at the Gymnase-Dramatique on 16 January 1873.
In a polemical pamphlet, *L’Homme-femme* (1872), Dumas thundered ‘Kill her!’ with regard to the adulterous woman. In this play, he put that summary advice into practice.
Cuvillier-Fleury, in an article in the *Journal des débats*, argued, in the name of the Gospel, against killing the adulterous woman; Dumas the Younger sets out his position in his lengthy preface.
An important play which complements *L’Homme-femme* and foreshadows his work on the right to divorce.
Enclosed:
Al. DUMAS Fils. *L’Homme-Femme*. Reply to Mr Henri d’Ideville. Twenty-sixth edition. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1872.
In-18, green morocco-bound half-leather, smooth spine slightly rubbed, decorated with four gilt fillets, speckled edges.
See original version (French)
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