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Auction archive: Lot number 216

FRENCH LITERATURE -- 19th-20th CENTURY A collection of 25 au...

Estimate
£1,200 - £1,500
ca. US$2,440 - US$3,050
Price realised:
£1,080
ca. US$2,196
Auction archive: Lot number 216

FRENCH LITERATURE -- 19th-20th CENTURY A collection of 25 au...

Estimate
£1,200 - £1,500
ca. US$2,440 - US$3,050
Price realised:
£1,080
ca. US$2,196
Beschreibung:

FRENCH LITERATURE -- 19th-20th CENTURY. A collection of 25 autograph letters and manuscripts signed by writers including: Victorien SARDOU (three letters including one to 'Mario' asking his opinion of a singer); Claude FARRÈRE (to Comtesse Nourgé Rohozvasky, thanking her 'pour ces deux choses si jolies et si turques, si chères à mon coeur de bon musulman', 1909); Jules SIMON (a polite but damning reply to an unidentified lady commenting on her manuscript on philosophy, 'Vous parlez des philosophes grecs, et vous oubliez le plus grand, Aristote. Vous qualifiez Molière en disant: raillerie fine et piquante. Cela ne rassemble guère à Molière'); Joséphin Soulary (on being included in a 'Panthéon des hommes d'aujourdhui', 1887); Rosny aîné (i.e. Joseph-Henri Boex, giving on a typed questionnaire his literary preferences); Gabriel Vicaire (two letters)
FRENCH LITERATURE -- 19th-20th CENTURY. A collection of 25 autograph letters and manuscripts signed by writers including: Victorien SARDOU (three letters including one to 'Mario' asking his opinion of a singer); Claude FARRÈRE (to Comtesse Nourgé Rohozvasky, thanking her 'pour ces deux choses si jolies et si turques, si chères à mon coeur de bon musulman', 1909); Jules SIMON (a polite but damning reply to an unidentified lady commenting on her manuscript on philosophy, 'Vous parlez des philosophes grecs, et vous oubliez le plus grand, Aristote. Vous qualifiez Molière en disant: raillerie fine et piquante. Cela ne rassemble guère à Molière'); Joséphin Soulary (on being included in a 'Panthéon des hommes d'aujourdhui', 1887); Rosny aîné (i.e. Joseph-Henri Boex, giving on a typed questionnaire his literary preferences); Gabriel Vicaire (two letters); others by Laurent Tailhade (sending his publisher a ballad in praise of the month of August); Armand Silvestre (enclosing a sonnet); André-Jean-Richepin, Henri Lavedan, Pol Neveux, Oscar Meteniez, Roumanville (2), Edouard Pailleron, Louis Ulbach, Emile Goudeau, André Rivoire (autograph poem 'Premier Novembre', 20 lines of verse); Rehoul, Maurice Vicaire, Constantin Weyer, Amedée Roux (autograph manuscript signed, in Italian, pages numbered 13-19), and two (unsigned) by unidentified writers. (26)

Auction archive: Lot number 216
Auction:
Datum:
3 Jul 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
3 July 2007, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

FRENCH LITERATURE -- 19th-20th CENTURY. A collection of 25 autograph letters and manuscripts signed by writers including: Victorien SARDOU (three letters including one to 'Mario' asking his opinion of a singer); Claude FARRÈRE (to Comtesse Nourgé Rohozvasky, thanking her 'pour ces deux choses si jolies et si turques, si chères à mon coeur de bon musulman', 1909); Jules SIMON (a polite but damning reply to an unidentified lady commenting on her manuscript on philosophy, 'Vous parlez des philosophes grecs, et vous oubliez le plus grand, Aristote. Vous qualifiez Molière en disant: raillerie fine et piquante. Cela ne rassemble guère à Molière'); Joséphin Soulary (on being included in a 'Panthéon des hommes d'aujourdhui', 1887); Rosny aîné (i.e. Joseph-Henri Boex, giving on a typed questionnaire his literary preferences); Gabriel Vicaire (two letters)
FRENCH LITERATURE -- 19th-20th CENTURY. A collection of 25 autograph letters and manuscripts signed by writers including: Victorien SARDOU (three letters including one to 'Mario' asking his opinion of a singer); Claude FARRÈRE (to Comtesse Nourgé Rohozvasky, thanking her 'pour ces deux choses si jolies et si turques, si chères à mon coeur de bon musulman', 1909); Jules SIMON (a polite but damning reply to an unidentified lady commenting on her manuscript on philosophy, 'Vous parlez des philosophes grecs, et vous oubliez le plus grand, Aristote. Vous qualifiez Molière en disant: raillerie fine et piquante. Cela ne rassemble guère à Molière'); Joséphin Soulary (on being included in a 'Panthéon des hommes d'aujourdhui', 1887); Rosny aîné (i.e. Joseph-Henri Boex, giving on a typed questionnaire his literary preferences); Gabriel Vicaire (two letters); others by Laurent Tailhade (sending his publisher a ballad in praise of the month of August); Armand Silvestre (enclosing a sonnet); André-Jean-Richepin, Henri Lavedan, Pol Neveux, Oscar Meteniez, Roumanville (2), Edouard Pailleron, Louis Ulbach, Emile Goudeau, André Rivoire (autograph poem 'Premier Novembre', 20 lines of verse); Rehoul, Maurice Vicaire, Constantin Weyer, Amedée Roux (autograph manuscript signed, in Italian, pages numbered 13-19), and two (unsigned) by unidentified writers. (26)

Auction archive: Lot number 216
Auction:
Datum:
3 Jul 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
3 July 2007, London, King Street
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