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[GILLET-MERMOZ, Gabrielle]
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298
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[GILLET-MERMOZ, Gabrielle]
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
[GILLET-MERMOZ, Gabrielle]
A collection of 30 letters and documents addressed to her or concerning her.
Letters of condolence and remembrance (1936–1937): Carl August von GABLENZ (Deutsche Lufthansa), Édouard SERRE; a telegram from Bibesco; a photograph of a portrait of Mermoz, dedicated to Mrs Mermoz on 26 September 1937 and signed by Gaston Reverdy and some twenty others.
Note by Ch. Hemmerlé on Rocquigny Castle, acquired in 1934 by Jean Mermoz (3 pp., in-4).
2 contracts (with their duplicates) between Mrs Gillet-Mermoz and Flammarion Publishers for a publication of Jean Mermoz’s Correspondence (1943), and for the transfer of rights to *Mes vols* (1951); plus a letter from Flammarion.
6 letters: Renée Boileau, R.P. Carré, Pierre Louis-Dreyfus, Jean Fraissinet… Typewritten note on the Aerium des Croix, chaired by Mrs Mermoz.
Copies of 8 letters from Mermoz to his mother or grandparents. Draft of a letter from Mrs Mermoz to her dear Madeleine.
3 photographs of Mrs Mermoz at a religious ceremony, and in the company of aviators. Photograph of the staff of the Jean Mermoz dispensary in Pondicherry at its inauguration in 1953, sent to Mrs Mermoz.
Plus a few miscellaneous documents enclosed.
Provenance: - Jean Mermoz (1901–1936);
- Gabrielle Gillet-Mermoz (1880–1955);
- Passed down through the family
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