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118 - René Benjamin’s travels in the Balkans, 1933–1938
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René Benjamin’s travels in the Balkans, 1933–1938 A collection of correspondence, manuscripts, press cuttings, medals, invitation cards and miscellaneous items FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE With the help of his publishers and his contacts within small royalist or nationalist groups, René Benjamin organised a series of lectures (Molière; The Face of France in 1934, its Spirit and its Heart (a tentative sketch); Balzac’s Love Letters; Love for Greece: from Clemenceau to Maurras; A Daughter of Apollo: Madame de Noailles) in Turkey, Greece and Romania between 1933 and 1938. Photographic portrait, 1934, with an autograph signature in blue ink by Queen Marie of Romania (1875–1938), née Marie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, wife of King Ferdinand I and a national heroine in Romania for her crucial role during the First World War and at the time of the Great Union of 1918, 23 x 16 cm, mounted on heavy card, with the photographer’s embossed mark and pencil signature, Studio Julietta (run by Adolf Klingsberg) on Calea Victoriei Avenue in Bucharest, one of the official studios of the Royal Court of Romania, specialising in portraits of the royal family. 2 P.A.S., 1934, Queen Marie of Romania, including a note on mourning paper written the day after the assassination of her stepson, King Alexander I, who was killed in Marseille on 9 October 1934. This assassination was a terrible blow to the family, compounded by a period that was already a painful one for her. At that time, Queen Marie was deeply isolated and kept at a distance from political and public life by her own eldest son, King Carol II of Romania, with whom she had a very strained relationship. 2 menus, one of which bears the handwritten signature of Queen Marie Amélie 4 postcards of the bedroom and study of Queen Marie of Romania at Cotroceni Palace Official certificate from the Kingdom of Romania, 12 June 1933, in which Carol II, King of Romania, appoints René Benjamin, writer and journalist, to the rank of Commander of the Order of the Crown of Romania 2 bronze medals, 7 cm in diameter: an official commemorative medal from the Carol I University Foundation, and an official commemorative medal marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Royal Romanian Geographical Society (1925) Handwritten notes on loose sheets, over 40 pp. in-8 and in-4 by René Benjamin on his dinners, receptions and meetings, with day-by-day comments, including ‘A Walk with the Queen’, 28 April 1934 Handwritten speech, 5 pp. in-4, written and signed by Paul Farca?anu, known as Paul Zotta, a young Romanian intellectual, lawyer and senior civil servant who held a post within the Office of the Minister of Finance, Victor Slavescu Handwritten speech, 4 pp., quarto, written and signed by Mihail Farca?anu, a young Romanian intellectual, lawyer and journalist, editor for *Viitorul* (‘The Future’), a major political daily and the official press organ of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Typescripts, translations of articles published in the Romanian press concerning René Benjamin’s lectures Over 50 letters and notes received by René Benjamin, including 7 letters from Cella Delavrancea (married name Cella Lahovary) (1887–1991), a famous Romanian concert pianist, writer and intellectual, daughter of the writer Barbu Delavrancea, third wife of the aristocratic diplomat Philippe Lahovary, and a close friend and confidante of Queen Marie of Romania 2 Letter from Athanasios Philon, a Greek lawyer and intellectual, member of the Parnassos Society and president of the royalist movement within the National Political Society, including an account of the political situation on the eve of the abolition of the Republic (10 October 1935) Atena Costaky Nicolau, a major landowner and Romanian philanthropist - Grigore Filipescu, editor and owner of *Epoca*, one of Romania’s oldest and most respected political daily newspapers; founder of the conservative political movement, the ‘Vlad ?epe?’ League, which sought to root out corruption and restore Prince Carol to the throne - Marie Nicolae Filipescu, a close friend of Queen Marie of Romania and mother of Grigori Filipescu - Prince Vladimir Mavrocordato Grazziella Nicu Missir, a prominent figure amongst the aristocratic and bourgeois elite of Bucharest - Emanoil Hagi-Mosco, a Romanian historian, genealogist and memoirist - Mihail Sabini, a poet, essayist and writer of the Romanian avant-garde - Lily Teodoreanu, alias Stefana Velisar Teodoreanu, Romanian woman of letters, novelist, poet and translator - 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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