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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger and his wives.
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165
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Alexandre DUMAS the Younger and his wives.
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €800
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Description
Alexandre DUMAS the Younger and his wives. Photographic portraits and correspondence.
- Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. 12 visiting-card-sized portraits. Photographs by Bayard and Bertal, Nadar (2), Reutlinger, Disderi, Walery, Mulnier, Carjat (with a dedication to Mme de La Charlotterie), Pirou – 4 in cabinet format (Mulnier, Pirou, Benque) – 5 in various formats. – One photograph taken on the steps of the Académie Française in the company of Mme de Reszke – 1 photograph with two unidentified men – 1 photograph in a garden with a young child (his daughter Jeannine?).
- 6 July 1902. Villers-Cotterets. Alexandre Dumas’s centenary celebrations. 2 photographs. Alexandre Dumas the Younger can be recognised in one of them.
- Group photograph in Puys, [c. 1886]. Missing from the bottom right-hand corner.
Alexandre Dumas the Younger, Valentine Flahaut, Alfred Arago, Francine Detroye, Jeannine Dumas, Nadine Dumas, Maurice Lippmann and his son Alexandre, and Alexandre’s nanny.
- Nadejda [Nadine] Naryschkine, Dumas the Younger’s first wife and mother of Colette and Jeannine.
4 photographic portraits, visiting-card size. Waléry, Carjat (2), anonymous.
- Henriette Régnier de La Brière, Dumas Fils’s second wife, whom he met in 1887 whilst she was married to the architect Félix Escalier, with whom she had a son. He was married to Nadine at the time. Lovers for eight years, they married shortly after Nadine’s death in 1895 and shortly before Dumas the Younger’s death. She outlived him by 39 years.
- 4 photographic portraits, cabinet size, mounted in a single frame.
. Alexandre Dumas Fils, photograph by the Fischer brothers
. Nadine Dumas. Photograph by Nadar
. Colette Dumas. Photograph by Nadar
. Jeannine Dumas. Photograph by Otto.
- 2 wedding invitations for the marriage of Alexandre Dumas Fils and Henriette Régnier.
- 7 autograph signed letters to various correspondents, including:
. Raoul Aubry. 30 October 1895, 2 pp. in-8, envelope. ‘I must not publish anything of what my husband is leaving unpublished. His prohibition on this point is categorical.”
. Halpérine-Kaminsky. 2 letters, 8 pp. in-8.
- Philoclès Régnier (1807–1885). Autograph signed letter to a friend. Undated, 1 p., in-8. He offers him a box for *Les Demoiselles de St Cyr*, a ‘rather entertaining’ comedy by Alexandre Dumas.
- Charlotte Régnier de La Brière, wife of L.D. Troussez (1788–1864). Actress. Autograph signed letter from Saint-Paul. 2 January 1842. 1 p. in-12. “I am no longer able to speak today. It will therefore be impossible for me to perform tomorrow.”
Colette DUMAS, the eldest daughter
Alexandrine-Henriette DUMAS, known as ‘Colette’, born in Paris in 1860 under the fictitious name of Lefébure, legitimised in 1864. Eldest daughter of Alexandre Dumas the Younger and Nadine Naryschkine. She married Maurice Lippmann (1844–1910) in 1880, the brother of Mme Arman de Caillavet, from whom she divorced in 1892. They had two children, Alexandre and Serge. She remarried Demetrios-Achille Matza in 1897.
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