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50 - Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), *The Twilight of a Tiger*, 1…
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Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), *The Twilight of a Tiger*, 1925–1936 A collection of manuscripts, correspondence, handwritten notes, press cuttings and photographs FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE 2 pocket notebooks, 15 x 10 cm, 132 ff., containing René Benjamin’s handwritten notes in pencil, recording the words and confidences of Georges Clemenceau during his two visits in 1925 Clemenceau, a handwritten draft of the lecture written by René Benjamin, with crossings-out and corrections, over 35 pp. in-4 Handwritten notes on loose sheets, over 20 pp., in-8 and in-12, written by René Benjamin during his conversations with the ‘Old Tiger’, 1927–1929, moving accounts of his final moments, including 21 April 1929, 5 pp. in-8; in which we see a Clemenceau as combative as ever, particularly vitriolic towards Marshal Foch (who had died a month earlier, in March 1929), his obsession with the end of life, and his provocative humour regarding the Jewish people October 1929, 1 page, in-8; describes Clemenceau’s imminent death (he died on 24 November) with a mixture of brutal medical precision and biting black humour, true to his character right to the end 4 L.A.S./P.A.S., 1929, Charles Pons, editorial secretary at the daily newspaper *L’Éclair*, concerning the organisation of a visit with René Benjamin to Clemenceau’s country house in the Vendée Letter from the author, Lyon, 7 April 1930, Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud, photographer and close friend of Clemenceau, former director of the Armed Forces Photographic Service (SPA), who accompanied ‘The Tiger’ to the front during the Great War 5 heliogravure prints, hand-signed and dated by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud, 23 x 19 cm: the ‘Victory Cap’; Clothilde, his cook at Bel-Esbat (Vendée); a portrait of Clothilde, his cook; and 3 portraits of Clemenceau, 49 x 39 cm (rolled) 2 views of the house at Bel-Esbat in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard (Vendée) *Clemenceau in Retirement*, published by Plon in 1930 Typewritten draft, 1927, with handwritten corrections, deletions and additions, 113 pp., in-4 Handwritten draft, December 1929, with corrections, deletions and additions, 144 pp. in-4 First printer’s proof (Plon), January 1930, with handwritten corrections, 252 pp. in-8 Letter from the author, 23 November 1929 (the day of Clemenceau’s death), from Albert Pigasse, founder of the Champs-Elysées bookshop, which was originally intended to be the publisher of the manuscript but was replaced by Plon Letter from the author, 11 December 1929, Nantes, from Georges Fiedler, regional representative of Action Française for the Loire-Inférieure; anecdotes about Clemenceau’s childhood and his family, collected orally in Nantes Incoming correspondence received after the book was sent, over 135 letters and telegrams, including: Camille Bellaigue, music critic Jean Héritier, journalist and writer Francis Jammes, writer (telegram) – Louis Latzarus, journalist and novelist Maurice de Fleury, psychiatrist René Groos, writer and journalist Jules Ernest Gros, editor of the *Nouvelle Revue Romande* - Jean Martet, novelist and poet William Morton Fullerton, American journalist - Émile Moussat, writer - Guy de Pourtalès, writer Jean Rameau, poet - Jean des Vallières, writer - Auguste Wilden, diplomat 8 L.A.S./P.A.S., 1930–1939, Madeleine Clemenceau-Jacquemaire, daughter of Georges Clemenceau, novelist and biographer Handwritten notes by René Benjamin on loose sheets: outline and draft of a lecture, over 35 pp. in-8; visit to the birthplace in Mouilleron (1933); dinner hosted by the Friends of Mr Clemenceau (1933); his museum (1936); Clemenceau and Claude Monet; etc. Etc... FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE
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About the sale René Benjamin, the 20th-century Balzac scholar
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