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29 - Passive correspondence and notes by René Benjamin, 1919–1929
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Passive correspondence and notes by René Benjamin, 1919–1929 A collection of correspondence, handwritten notes, press cuttings and miscellaneous items FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE A significant collection of over 1,250 letters and notesletters to the editor and letters to the press received by René Benjamin between 1919 and 1929, relating to expressions of thanks and congratulations, requests to speak and write articles, reactions to the publication of articles and books, and to lectures, etc., including: Juliette Adam, polemical writer and salon hostess – Julia Bartet, actress (3) – Ernest Beauguitte, writer Camille Bellaigue, music critic and musicographer – Léon Bérard, surgeon (5) – Henri Béraud, journalist and novelist, winner of the 1922 Prix Goncourt (2) – Marcel Berger, writer and sports journalist, co-director of the Agence Littéraire Française (8) – Louis Bertrand, novelist, essayist and member of the Académie Française (11) – Pierre Beydts, alias Marcel Lesvignes, author of *Rita, Championne d’Italie* – Alfred Blanchet, writer (2) – Gustavo de Blanck y Menocal, Minister Plenipotentiary of Cuba, Permanent Delegate to the League of Nations – Léon Blum, Member of Parliament – Emmanuel Bourcier, novelist and journalist – Marcel Bouteron, literary historian (7) – Auguste Bréal, art critic and painter (2) – Eugène Brieux, playwright and member of the Académie Française (7) – Georges Bruyer, engraver – Louis Cadars, journalist and historian – Boni de Castellane, socialite and memoirist (10) – Henriette Célarié, historian and novelist (4) – Claire de Charnacé, Countess of Saint-Priest, writer and journalist (15) – Georges Clarétie, lawyer and man of letters (2) - Henri Clouard, journalist and literary critic - Pierre Comert, journalist, diplomat, and director of the Information Section of the League of Nations - Lucien Corpechot, writer and journalist (3) - Tristan Derème, poet - Lucien Descaves, writer and member of the Académie Goncourt (3) - Fernand Divoire, Belgian writer - Georges Docquois, poet and novelist (3) - Maurice Donnay, playwright and poet (3) - Léo Errera, Belgian botanist - Paul Fiolle, doctor and novelist - Maurice de Fleury, psychiatrist - Ernest Fornairon, writer and poet - Louis Gastine, journalist and novelist - Albert Gavy-Bélédin, editor of *La Gerbe* - Victor Glachant, author - Fernand Gouyou, journalist and writer, founder of the magazine *Nous d’Afrique*, established in Algiers - Pierre Grasset, actor and screenwriter - Pascal Greppe, man of letters - René Groos, writer and journalist - Etienne Grosclaude, journalist and humourist - André Hallays, journalist, writer and critic - Robert Havard de la Montagne, journalist and royalist writer - Edouard Helsey, journalist - Léon Hennique, novelist and screenwriter, member of the Académie Goncourt - Marguerite Henry-Rosier, novelist, poet and literary critic (5), concerning the attempt to cancel the conference in Dôle - Albert Paul Herrenschmidt, writer - Eugène Hollande, writer (3) – Georges Imann, writer and journalist – Henry de Jouvenel, journalist and senator – Paul Hymans, Belgian minister (2) – Dom Albert Jamet, Benedictine monk (12) – Paul Labbé, ethnologist – Philippe Lamour, lawyer and man of letters (3) – André Lang, journalist and playwright – Jacques Victor Richard de Laprade, journalist (3) – Raoul Laparra, composer and pianist – Evan de Lapeyrière, painter – Louis Latzarius, journalist and novelist (2) – Henri Lavedan, novelist and journalist – Jacques Lemarchand, the King’s ‘Camelot’ and writer – Pierre Loewel, literary critic and journalist – Joseph-Henri Louwyck, writer (5) – Alexandre Macédonski, man of letters and painter, signed invitation leaflet for the 1927 exhibition – André Mabille de Poncheville, writer and poet – Marie Anne Isabelle de Mac Mahon, Countess of Lur-Saluces, Ligue d’Action française (3) – André Maginot, Minister for the Colonies – Viscount Henri de Marsay (4) – Jean Martet, poet and novelist, secretary to Georges Clemenceau (10) – Eugène Mathon, wool manufacturer – General Louis de Maud’huy (2) - Christian Melchior-Bonnet, writer - Pierre Mercier, senior magistrate committed to the fight against human exploitation - Achille Mestre, lawyer - Victor-Emile Michelet, esoteric poet and playwright - Marcel Millet, writer and libertarian poet - Henri, Count of Miramon Fitzjames – Abel Moreau, poet and novelist – Étienne Moussat, writer (2) – Abbé Arthur Mugnier (11) – Bertrand de Mun, businessman and politician (6) – Thérèse Bianchi, Countess Murat, salon hostess and woman of letters (10) – Pol Neveux, writer and member of the Académie Goncourt – Gabriel Nigond, writer (3) – Andes Osterling, Swedish writer and poet – Alys Martha Philpot, translator and one of the first female publishers in London (2) – René de Planhol, journalist and literary critic (3) – Henry Poidenot, journalist – Jeanne Marie Pouquet, writer and salon hostess (6) – Albert Prouvost, industrialist and ‘king of wool’ in Roubaix (2) – Jean Rameau, novelist and poet
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About the sale René Benjamin, the 20th-century Balzac scholar
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