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Auction archive: Lot number 104

FRENCH WRITERS, A COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, INCLUDING COCTEAU, FRANÇOIS-VICTOR HUGO, ZOLA, CLAUDEL, C19-20

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,683 - US$4,024
Price realised:
£2,125
ca. US$2,850
Auction archive: Lot number 104

FRENCH WRITERS, A COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, INCLUDING COCTEAU, FRANÇOIS-VICTOR HUGO, ZOLA, CLAUDEL, C19-20

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,683 - US$4,024
Price realised:
£2,125
ca. US$2,850
Beschreibung:

French writers COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS SIGNED, INCLUDING: GEORGE SAND (3, including to Dr. Pasquale Muratori and Monsieur Boieldieu, the letter to the doctor urging him to visit 'notre malade' [Maurice Sand?], who could have died at any moment during the night and who is now approaching the crisis); ÉMILE ZOLA (about the publication of La Débâcle, 1 page, 26 October 1892); PAUL CLAUDEL (mentioning Le Soulier de satin, 1 page, 20 September 1945); FRANÇOIS-VICTOR HUGO; ALEXANDRE DUMAS (autograph manuscript of "Invocation d'un Ange à La Vierge" from Don Juan De Marana, 1 page); and JEAN COCTEAU (3, to Alan Neame, concerning Pound, and other matters, and one signed note to Camille Chamoun) ...Ne vous abandonnez pas dans cette crise qui est probablement décisive. La nuit a été telle qu' à chaque instant on le croyait mort... c.24 pages in all, various sizes, seven with autograph envelopes, also including an autograph letter by Sarah Bernhardt to Gabriel Fauré, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Paris, [Nohant] and elsewhere, 1793-1951, where indicated

Auction archive: Lot number 104
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

French writers COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS SIGNED, INCLUDING: GEORGE SAND (3, including to Dr. Pasquale Muratori and Monsieur Boieldieu, the letter to the doctor urging him to visit 'notre malade' [Maurice Sand?], who could have died at any moment during the night and who is now approaching the crisis); ÉMILE ZOLA (about the publication of La Débâcle, 1 page, 26 October 1892); PAUL CLAUDEL (mentioning Le Soulier de satin, 1 page, 20 September 1945); FRANÇOIS-VICTOR HUGO; ALEXANDRE DUMAS (autograph manuscript of "Invocation d'un Ange à La Vierge" from Don Juan De Marana, 1 page); and JEAN COCTEAU (3, to Alan Neame, concerning Pound, and other matters, and one signed note to Camille Chamoun) ...Ne vous abandonnez pas dans cette crise qui est probablement décisive. La nuit a été telle qu' à chaque instant on le croyait mort... c.24 pages in all, various sizes, seven with autograph envelopes, also including an autograph letter by Sarah Bernhardt to Gabriel Fauré, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Paris, [Nohant] and elsewhere, 1793-1951, where indicated

Auction archive: Lot number 104
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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