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86 - Henry Bordeaux (1870–1963), lawyer, novelist and essayist, m…
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Estimate €150 - €300
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Henry Bordeaux (1870–1963), lawyer, novelist and essayist, member of the Académie Française A collection of correspondence and 10 publications, including signed autograph letters 8 autograph letters (LA.S.) and signed printed letters (P.A.S.), 1925–1949, addressed to René Benjamin and his son François, including: 12 February 1947 My dear colleague, I am finishing *L’Enfant tué* (which you did not send me when I sent you all my books and which I had great difficulty in obtaining, but never mind) and I want to tell you, as someone who loves my daughters so dearly, that I have never felt my fatherhood more keenly and that I share your grief. Your son’s greatest suffering must have been the contrast between his life on the battlefield and yours in prison. Injustice is unbearable in youth, and he overcame it everywhere. There is so much justice in him that one almost forgets the injustice that sought to destroy you and that has grown… *Yamilé sous les cèdres* Paris, Plon-Nourrit & Cie, 1923 Paperback, 19 x 12 cm Signed autograph dedication Foreign Friendships Paris, Librairie Plon, 1933 Paperback, 19 x 12 cm Signed autograph copy The Land Without Shadows Paris, Librairie Plon, 1935 Paperback, 19 x 12 cm Signed autograph copy The Intruder Paris, Librairie Plon, 1936 Paperback, 19 x 12 cm Signed autograph dedication Joffre, or The Art of Command Paris, Editions Bernard Grasset, 1933 First edition, press copy Paperback, 19 x 12 cm Signed autograph copy The Light at the End of the Road Paris, Librairie Plon, 1948 First edition, press copy Paperback, 20.5 x 14.5 cm Signed autograph dedication 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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Auction time 10/06/2026 at 2:00 PM
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