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Jeannine DUMAS d’HAUTERIVE. A substantial collection compris…
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Jeannine DUMAS d’HAUTERIVE. A substantial collection compris…
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,400
Voluntary lot
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Jeannine DUMAS d’HAUTERIVE. A substantial collection comprising photographs, letters and documents.
- Jeannine Alexandre DUMAS d’HAUTERIVE. At the end of my life. Memoirs and correspondence. Manuscript. 69 folio-sized pages, pink cover bearing the handwritten note ‘Original manuscript. Passages retained for the second manuscript have been marked in the margin with a blue pencil line’.
Interesting memoirs, dedicated ‘to all’, imbued with a deep religious faith; they contain recollections of her own life, her father and her family, as well as her grandfather.
‘You ask me, my dear friend… to recount my memories… Alas! There are many… and many of them are painful… So I grew up in this artistic atmosphere of regular gatherings of various artists: Meissonier, the painter; Alexandre Protais, also a painter; that admirable man and perfect friend, who would dine with us on opening-night evenings and visit my mother’s dressing room afterwards… Madame Carvalho had a villa in Le Puys… I had great admiration for Madame Carvalho and I remain deeply grateful to her for having encouraged me to sing throughout my youth with incomparable kindness… We would spend hours together making music, and when we stopped, my father would call out from his study: ‘More!’ We were not to stop until the inspiration or the scene that had been sparked by our singing was complete… We would leave Puys in mid-September or October once ‘the play’ was finished… My mother, a lady of great distinction, very reserved in her social dealings, descended from the princes of Finland… had little desire to mix with journalists, actors or actresses. Only Madame Pasca and Le Bargy would come to our house ‘as friends’…’ – p. 16: an amusing anecdote about a visit from the police on the day she was awarded the Legion of Honour, because the name she used did not match her civil status. – A lengthy account of her great-grandfather, General Dumas, and her grandfather – Why did she get married? ‘Because I sensed my mother’s decline, Madame Escalier’s influence, and the impossibility of living between her and my father once she became his wife ” – Her father’s death – 1907, a year marked by a succession of deaths: her dear mother-in-law d’Hauterive, her sister Colette. Her sadness at being left alone, with no young people left in her family. “The Dumas line is over, and I think the vitality of the first three has already made an exception by producing three such powerful generations. Fortunately, for it would have been difficult for the fourth Dumas to uphold the reputation of the first three, each in their own way. I often think that my father would recognise nothing of life today… He would have found the present day fascinating because of all the new inventions. He knew only the telephone and the early days of the phonograph… In 1918, during the Spanish flu, I was in Quiberon, running a hospital for patients with bone tuberculosis. The doctor, having noted with surprise that a wounded man, who had been struck down by the Spanish flu, had not died as he ought to have done on that day he was not meant to survive, asked me what I had given him: ‘Du Quinton’. – She gives a typical menu taken from the *Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine*: ‘Obviously, we ate more in those days than we do now, and yet there weren’t as many reports of arteriosclerosis as there are today… We must not have been any worse off for it, and people seemed to be in much better spirits than they are today. Perhaps the good dinners had something to do with it.’ – Anecdotes about Dumas the Elder and the lawsuits brought against him by his collaborators. – The son and his father: ‘Dumas the Younger analysed himself just as he analysed others, and even his own father. He used to say, “My father is a big child I had when I was very young.” Yet he had boundless admiration for this father. He often told me that he had never seen his father doing anything but working…’ – On his father’s views regarding women, of which she says, ‘one can see throughout his entire body of work his desire to protect women’.
- Vintage photographic reproduction of the portrait of Jeannine by Jacques-Émile Blanche. Framed. 50 x 25 cm.
- 17 photographic portraits taken at different ages.
. 5 in visiting-card format (photographs by Nadar, Lagriffe, etc.)
. 2 in cabinet format, including one duplicate with a dedication (photographs by Gasc in Dieppe, Otto)
. 9 in various formats, including amateur photographs: one in a nurse’s uniform during the First World War.
. 1 portrait in a nurse’s uniform with her medals, holding a child on her lap, with the handwritten annotation ‘war and peace 1915 1922’.
Enclosed: a small photograph taken during the First World War depicting two nurses, ‘the Major [Jeannine] – the Pharmacist’.
- (Manuscript) – Breton legend. Autograph manuscript, undated, 16 pp., in-4.
- (Manuscript) – Thoughts and Paradoxes by Alexandre Dumas the Younger… Autograph manuscript. Trégastel, 9 July 1909. In-12, full red morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, chiselled edges, gilded inner lace, endpapers and flyleaves in red moiré.
[72 ff.], with a postcard at the front depicting the monument to Dumas fils in Place Malesherbes. This small volume was copied by Jeannine ‘for the first and best of my friends, André Basire. In memory of my father’s spirit, my dear mother’s heart, and my affection—past, present and future.”
In a drawing folder:
- Certificate of professional competence as a nurse. Paris, 27 February 1927.
- Ministry of War. Silver Medal of Honour. 19 October 1917
- National Order of the Legion of Honour. Appointment to the rank of Knight. 7 May 1921. (marginal tear, nothing missing)
- (A receipt and autograph letters signed to Maurice d’Hartoy). – 18 July 1927. Receipt for the sum of 27,000 francs ‘towards the final payment for the Marly property…’ – Purchase from Maurice d’Hartoy of a debt owed by François Coty [Maurice d’Hartoy’s father-in-law] on 18 July 1929.
- 29 signed autograph letters addressed to Jeannine Dumas d’Hauterive:
Juliette Adam – Emmanuel Arago – Archbishop of Paris – Louis Barthou — Marthe Brandès – Emma Calvé – Carvalho – Jules Claretie – François Coppée – Gaston Doumergue – Raphaël Duflos – H. Falli – Galipeau – General Galliffet – Charles Gounod – Armand d’Hartoy – Maurice Leloir, 7 March 1896. 3 pp. in-8; it refers to a portrait of Dumas the Elder and the illustrations for *The Three Musketeers* – Madeleine Lemaire – Jules Lemaître – Prince Louis Napoléon, nephew of Princess Mathilde (2, 6 pp. in-8) – Ernest Meissonier – Pasca – Mgr Perraud, Bishop of Autun – Armand Siloutz – 4 illegible signatures.
Various documents concerning Ernest d’HAUTERIVE, Jeannine’s husband, or his family are enclosed.
- Ernest d’HAUTERIVE. 1 volume, large in-8, cloth-bound (caps worn, corners and edges rubbed), containing articles published by him in various newspapers: *Le Figaro*, *Courrier de Paris*, *L’Avenir du Puy-de-Dôme*, *Petites affiches de Normandie*, etc., etc…
- Obituary notice for his mother, Mrs d’Hauterive, in 1907.
- BLAZE DE BURY. Autograph signed letter to Ernest d’Hauterive.
- The ONSLOW family (the daughter of the composer Georges Onslow married Ernest d’Hauterive in 1831; he was the grandfather of Jeannine’s husband). 2 printed documents: – Pleadings on behalf of Sieur Gabriel-Amable Onslow… against Sieur André-Georges-Louis Onslow… – Hearing, 16 May 1834, concerning a dispute involving Georges Onslow.
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