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a pile of old books and papers sitting on a couchmany old photos of men in hats sitting on a tabletwo pictures of a man in a top hat and a man in a top hatseveral black and white photos of men in military uniforms on a tableseveral old french newspapers sitting on a blue cloth covered surfacea lot of papers that are sitting on a bedtwo pieces of paper with writing on them on a tablea piece of paper with writing on it sitting on a tablea piece of paper with writing on it sitting on a tablea piece of paper that has a handwritten letter on ita knife, knife sharper, and other items on a table
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411 - A rare collection from the same source, dating from 1944/194…
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Estimate €200 - €300
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Description
A rare collection from the same source, dating from 1944/1945/1946 and attributed to a veteran of the First French Army, comprising numerous typescripts in multiple copies (‘The Song of the Snails Going to the Funeral’ by Jacques de Prévert, Albert Camus’s *The Myth of Sisyphus*, Charles de Baudelaire’s *La Chevelure*), documents with a philosophical/Masonic slant referring to André Malraux and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, including a handwritten letter on ‘the absurdity of life – man’s solitude ’, a typescript of a text by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry bearing an apocryphal handwritten signature, brochures on the 1st French Army dating from 1945, period photographs of General de Gaulle, President of the Provisional Government, and Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny; a collection of equipment including a US belt, an Austrian bayonet, a pipe, a canteen, a quarter-litre ‘Thermos’ flask, two US ‘POISON WOOD’ stove tins, a German pocket knife, some damaged documents; the lot requires closer examination
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About the sale Auction on 24 October: antique and modern paintings, works of art
Auction location
Auction time 10/24/2026 at 2:00 PM
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