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76 - Passive correspondence and notes by René Benjamin, 1930–1939
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Passive correspondence and notes by René Benjamin, 1930–1939 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 600 letters and notesA.S./L.S. received by René Benjamin between 1930 and 1939, 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: Letter from the author, Rome, 3 September 1937, Vojtech Vladimír Klecanda (1888–1947), Czech general, military and aeronautical attaché of the Czechoslovak Republic in Rome ‘Eugène Delacroix and his friends’ exhibition, held in Eugène Delacroix’s studio at 6 Rue de Furstenberg, catalogue, June–July 1932 + invitation card from the Office of the President of the Republic, press cuttings and Inauguration of Delacroix’s studio, 24 June 1932, 6 pp. in-8 of handwritten notes by René Benjamin 2 letters, Sannois, 3 and 19 May 1939, Louis-Charles-Jean-Philippe de Bourbon (1865–1940), known as the ‘Prince of Sannois’ or the ‘Dauphin of France’ within the Naundorffist movement, grandson of Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff, the Prussian watchmaker who claimed to be the Dauphin Louis XVII, having escaped from the Temple prison. Fascinated by royal history, metaphysics and esotericism (which explains the spiritualist and symbolic references in his correspondence), he was actively involved in defending the theories regarding the survival of Louis XVII. 3 L.A.S., Sainte-Adèle, Canada, 1937–1939, Claude Grignon (1894–1976), pen name Valdombre, a Quebec journalist, writer and pamphleteer + *Les pamphlets de Valdombre*, no. 9, 1 August 1937, a periodical published by Claude-Henri Grignon in which he promoted the publication of Benjamin’s book *Mussolini and His People* Louis Artus, writer (4) – Louise d’Aussy-Pintaud, painter and sculptor – Aurel, pseudonym of Aurélie Octavie Gabrielle Antoinette de Faucamberge, writer (2) – Aimée Barancy, journalist, poet and musician (2) – Charles de Beaupoil, Count of Saint Aulaire, diplomat – René Béhaine, writer (3) – Pierre Benoit, writer (3) Jacques Boulenger, writer and literary critic – Henri Cangardel, CEO of the Compagnie Maritime Transatlantique – Stanislas de Castellane, politician – Henriette Célarié, novelist (4) – Jean Chiappe, Paris police prefect (8) – Maurice Clavière, writer – Lucien Corpechot, journalist and writer – Jean Dorsenne, writer – Albert Dubeux, writer (7) – Pierre Goemaere, writer and Belgian member of the Académie française – Jules Ernest Gross, editor of the *Nouvelle Revue Romande* (3) – Berthe Eva Gueydan, wife of Joseph Caillaux, President of the Council of Ministers (3) – Arthur Hérisson Laroche, writer and poet – Édouard Herriot, member of the Académie Française and Mayor of Lyon (5) – Bertrand de Jouvenel, writer and journalist (2) – Roger Joseph, journalist – Maurice Larrouy, writer – Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, mathematician and biophysicist – Joseph-Henri Louwyck, writer – Marie Thérèse Mairot Dromard, woman of letters and poet (5) – Raymond de Marsillac, editor of the daily newspaper *Le Journal* – Anatole de Monzi, Minister for Public Works – Alfred Mortier, journalist and writer (3) – Charles Mauban, writer – Hélène Mendiaux Coremans, Belgian patron of the arts – Émile Moussat, writer – Irina Obolensky, Russian princess – Wladimir d’Ormesson, writer and journalist – Countess Jacqueline de Polignac de Boisrouvray (7) Georges de Porto-Riche, playwright and novelist – Jeanne Marie Pouquet, writer and salon hostess – Gaston Rageot, novelist and literary critic (6) – Jean Rameau, poet (3) – Louis Salomon Koechlin, Alsatian anti-Semitic writer – Gabriel Signoret, actor – Carles Soldevila i Zubiburu, Spanish journalist – Fabien Sollar, writer (3) – Jean Albert Sorel, lawyer and journalist – Maurice Storez, architect – André Tardieu, former Prime Minister – Gabriel Trarieux, writer and astrologer (2) – Eugène Trotabas, writer (4) – Jean Albert Val, journalist – Jean-Louis Vallas, poet and journalist (7) – Jean des Vallières, writer – Fernand Vandérem, novelist and literary critic – Tancrède de Visan, writer – etc.
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About the sale René Benjamin, the 20th-century Balzac scholar
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