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100 - Julia Allard-Daudet (1844–1940) and Lucien Daudet (1878–1946…
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Julia Allard-Daudet (1844–1940) and Lucien Daudet (1878–1946) Collection of correspondence 15 letters written by Julia Allard-Daudet and letters addressed to her, 1913–1936, addressed to René Benjamin and his wife, including: Letter written by Julia Allard-Daudet, Paris, 18 November 1916 Sir, my appreciation for *Gaspard* would be the same for your new book *Sous le Ciel de France*. It has the same verve, the same good humour, recounting human suffering without grandiloquence yet so poignantly; and how you love our beautiful country, invaded and wounded, yet where it stands (...) You were quite right, sir, to end your book on a spring-like note, for winter in the army reveals to us all the misery and horror that we can scarcely fathom from afar, and yet which we must come to know in order to better condemn this senseless war! Reading your eloquent lines on the Place de la Concorde on page 90, I cannot help but send you these verses which it inspired in me this summer, delighted that your impression should coincide with my own... followed by a poem entitled *Place de la Concorde*, pp. in-8 17 L.A.S./P.A.S., 1924–1944, Lucien Daudet, addressed to René Benjamin and his wife, including: + L.A.S. Marie Thérèse Allard-Daudet, 1945 Letter from the author, La Roche, Chargé, 2 July 1942, the day after the death of his brother Léon Letter from the author, La Roche, Chargé, 18 December 1942, rumour of his admission to the Académie Goncourt 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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