Autograph letter signed « Dubois » to his sister Pauline Périer-Lagrange
[Brunswick], « 29 8bre [October] 1808 » 5 p. in-4°
« I liked music as an expression of love. It seems to me that none of the women I’ve had have given me such a sweet moment… »
Autograph letter signed « Léon Blum » to Louis-Alfred Natanson
N.p.n.d., [Paris, 14 December 1894], 3 p. 1/2 petit in-8° on cream paper
« You see, my poor Fred, we are too sensitive beings. We end up suffering even from things that are indifferent to us »
Autograph letter signed « Robert Brasillach » to Thierry Maulnier
[Paris, late 1930s], 1 p. in-8°
« Live a slave or die! »
Autograph quotation signed « Sacha Guitry »
S.l.n.d., 1 p. in-8° oblongue
« The hardest thing to do in a play is the intermissions »
Autograph letter signed « Julien Gracq » to Thierry Maulnier
Caen, 4th November [1945], 1 p. in-8° in violet ink on lined paper
« I learned from a press clipping… that you did not receive Un Beau ténébreux »
Autograph letter signed « Claude Lévi-Strauss » to Thierry Maulnier
[Paris], 9 May 1982, 1 p. 1/4 in-4°
« It is futile to seek meaning in history »
Autograph poem signed « Paul Eluard »
N.p.n.d, 1 p. in-8°
« Garcia Lorca was put to death »
Autograph manuscript signed « Jean Jaurès »
[Paris], c. 1st June 1906, 10 p. in-4° in black ink
« The separation law will therefore be applied without new disorders and without new crisis »
Autograph notes
N.p.n.d [c. 1985-86], 1 p. in-4°
« Navy Blue Leather Glove… »
Autograph manuscript (fragment) for his novel Nord
S.l.n.d [Meudon, entre 1957 et 1859], 1 p. in-4°
« Et vlang ! referme la lourde ! malades ?.. je crois pas… mais au moins nous voici fixés ! »
Autograph manuscript for « Les Communistes et la paix »
N.p, [c. late 1953 – March 1954], 6 p. in-4°
« It is misery that drives the peasant to the city factories. And this misery is provoked »
Autograph poem : Chant funèbre d’un représentant
[Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 14th April 1953], 4 p. in-plano (25 x 43,7 cm)
« I was sick of death / and without even dying / like others seasick / without being able to vomit it »
Two autograph letters signed « Emile Zola » to Philippe Gille
Paris, 13th April 1878 and Médan, 9th August 1878, in total 3 p. in-8°
« This is the illustrated edition of L’Assommoir, which is going to be published by Marpon. Some engravings are very curious »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Joseph Canqueteau
Paris, 10th March 1885, 2 p. in-8°
« The first idea of “Germinal” is already very far away… »
Autograph letter signed « P Verlaine » to Adrien Remacle
Paris, 22 7bre [September] 1895, 1 p. in-8° on laid bi-folio
« Please note that I live at 39 rue Descartes »
Autograph letter signed « J.V. » to Aurélien Scholl
[Londres], 29 8bre [October] [18]77, 6 pp. in-8°
« I am thinking of letting my political hopes lie dormant, and returning to my profession »
Two autograph manuscripts for « L’Engagement de Mallarmé »
N.p, [1952], 2 p. in-4° in blue ink on graph paper
« Creature or creator, there is no other choice »
Autograph letter signed « Félicien Rops » to a gentleman
Paris, 28th May [1891 ?], 3 p. in-8°
« All of them: Sculptors, poets, musicians, painters, apart from a score of ‘brain-seeing’ people are a band of Monkeys and lemurs who should be taken away gently… and shot »
Autograph pastiche-poem signed « Marcel Proust »
N.p.n.d [c. summer 1908], 2 p. in-8°, mourning paper
« Seigneur, si vous daignez m’admettre dans les Salles / Où le Juste rompra le Pain Essentiel, / Que de marbre aussi pur étincellent vos stalles ! »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Robert de Montesquiou
N.p, [December 7, 1904], 4 pp. in-8°, mourning paper
« The truly unsightly land is not that which art has not sown, but that which, covered with masterpieces, knows neither how to love them nor even how to preserve them »
Autograph letter signed « P.-J. Proudhon » to Gustave Chaudey
Passy, September 11, 1863, 3 p. in-8°
« I no longer have any confidence in the present generation; I work without hope for the satisfaction of my conscience »
Autograph letter signed « M. Pleyel » [to Louis Brandus?]
Brussels, n.d « 15th January » [after 1865], 1 p. in-8°
« Will you think me too indiscreet if I ask you to send me Liszt’s piece on the Indian march of the Africaine… »
Autograph postcard signed « Jean » to his family
Megève, 6th February [1940], 1 p. in-12°
« These two days spent in the fresh air did me a lot of good and I now feel in great physical shape »
Autograph letter signed « Picasso » to Max Pellequer
[Château de] Vauvenargues, « 13.[0]5.[19]59 », 1 p. in-4°
« A thousand greetings from both of us for both of you»
Autograph manuscript signed « F. Mistral »
N.p.n.d, 2 p. petit in-8° on laid paper
« With her hair girded with the Arlesian diadem, the chapel of her breasts half-open to the sun, she went into the crowd, spreading admiration. she was human beauty »
Autograph letter signed « EL VIEJO » to his mistress Jeanne Schneider
Fresnes prison, « QHS » 3rd March 1977, 2 pp. in-4°
« I wrote a letter to Badinter to put him in his place! because I accept criticism… but not from a guy like him »
Autograph poem signed on the verso of a period albumen print
N.p, 18th Nov[ember] 1895, (12,3 x 17 cm)
« Bei der Abendsonne Wandern / Wann ein Dorf den Strahl verlor »
Autograph letter signed « Gustave de Maupassant » to Robert Pinchon
Sainte-Maxime, 9 7bre [September] [18]95, 3 p. in-8° on laid paper
« Guy was already mad when his mother made him sign his will »
Autograph letter signed « Victor Hugo » to M. Lafeuillade
Paris, 12 8bre [October] [1873], 1 p. 1/2 in-8° on blue paper
« The money generated by the sale of the poem La Libération du territoire will not pass through my hands »
Autograph letter signed « Ton pirate » to his mistress Jeanne Schneider
[Prison de la Santé, Paris], 5th April [19]76, 2 pp. in-8°
« I spent a good part of the day writing my book »
[Paris, c. 1890], original photographic portrait
Period film print (11,8 x 16,1 cm)
An elegant portrait of the writer at home, sitting by his fireplace, his cat on his lap
Autograph letter signed « Beaumarchais » to comedian Préville
Paris, 31st March 1784, 2 pp. on bi-folio in-8°,watermarked laid paper
« My play isn’t a big thing ; but seeing it in the theater is the result of four years of fighting »
Autograph letter signed (third person) to Hélène T. Mazel
[Paris], 29 November 1843, 1/2 p. in-12°
Autograph letter of one of Juliette Récamier, with five additional letters about her
Autograph letter signed « Juliette » to Victor Hugo
N.p [Paris], 9th December [1846], « Wednesday morning, 10 h ½ », 4 p. in-4°
« You have omitted nothing, forgotten nothing, disdained nothing. And all this in your most beautiful style and sublime poetry »
Autograph letter signed « Jean Cocteau » to Henry de Montherlant
Milly[-la-Forêt], 1 November 1962, 1 p. in-4°
« The only strange thing is that we are under this dome which refused Chateaubriand Hugo Vigny Balzac… »
Autograph note signed « S. de Beauvoir » to Berthe Mandinaud
[Paris, 16 July 1956], 1/4 p. in-4°
« With my thanks »
First draft manuscript
N.p.n.d [c. 1955], 3/4 p. in-4° in blue ink
« Beautiful girls of France, get your asses ready! »
Autograph letter signed « Marceline Valmore » to Charles Pierquin de Gembloux
[Paris], 6th June 1833, 3 pp. in-8°
« I have had the publisher give you a volume of Les Pleurs to a bookseller in Grenoble »
Typed letter signed twice « Jack » and « Jack Kerouac » to Granville H. Jones
[Northport, New York, 22 November 1960] 2 p. in-4°, with envelope
« It is the only thing too that has made me happy in three years, since the publication of On the Road and the subsequent sickeningness of ‘being famous’ »
Autograph card signed « Nadar » to [Henri ?] Cazalis
Draveil, 12 January [18]93, 1 p. small in-8°
« My poor afflicted one and I send our warmest regards with our best wishes.… »
Period albumen prints in stereoscopic view
[Jersey, c. 1853-1855], 7,5 x 6,5 cm
Hugo in stereo
Autograph letter signed « Colette » to a friend
[11th December 1949], 2 p. in-4°
« The Goncourt, my works, and my ills have turned me away from my best friends »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Marie-Thérèse Bartholoni
Farnborough Hill, Hants, 4th November 1908, 4 p. in-8°
« The 15th of November has long ceased to be a feast for me, and the ranks of those who once celebrated it are thinning every day, for death is mowing down all around us »
Autograph letter signed « Colette de Jouvenel » to Charles Sylvestre
[Paris, 21st March 1922], 1 p. in-4° with envelope
« Apart from my relatives, no one notices that Colette was a saint! »
Original photograph by Paul Boyer
Period albumin print (c. 1891). Carte-de-visite format
Very scarce original photograph of young Marcel Proust
Autograph letter signed « ta Colette » to Marguerite Moreno
[La Treille Muscate – Saint Tropez, September 1929], 4 pp. in-4°
« She has boyish shirts and young negress breasts—the most beautiful, you know. And she swims underwater like a little shark »
Autograph letter signed « A Dumas » to the « Patriarch of Jerusalem »
S.l, 15 April [18]47, 2 p. 1/2 in-8°, with autograph envelope
« It’s only by working 18 hours a day that I can not cope with everyone, but support myself »
Autograph letter signed « Gve Flaubert » to Paule Sandeau
[Croisset], 1er 7bre [septembre 1861], 3 p. in-8° on blue laid paper
« You will see that my prediction will come true: my book will not have much effect »
Autograph letter signed « ADreyfus » [to général Percin]
[Paris], 21st July 1906, 1 p. in-8°
« If I have known many villains, many cowardices, I have at least had the consolation of meeting some brave men »
Autograph letter signed « Émile Zola » [to his publisher Eugène Fasquelle]
Paris, 5th February 1901, 1 p. n-8° on laid paper
« I am sending you the Vérité en marche… »
Autograph letter signed « Charles » to his mother, Madame Aupick
[Paris], « Wednesday » [28th October 1863], 1 p. in-8°
« I distrust the Belgians »
Autograph letter signed « votre Colette » to the Guillermet couple
[Paris], 24 [December 1950], 2 p. in-8° on blue paper
« My dear Guillermets, he holds a place, this Maurice! I’m making myself thin »
Autograph letter signed « Z » to Alice Mirbeau
N.p [Addlestone], Tuesday 30th August [18]98, 4 p. in-8° on laid paper
« It only gives me one passion, that of sacrifice, the will to immolate myself »
Autograph letter signed « Jules Soury » to Eugène Fasquelle
S.l, 4th October 1904, 1 p. in-8°
« Twelve firing squad bullets for Jewish traitor Alfred Dreyfus »
Autograph letter signed « Aragon » [to Philippe Hériat]
N.p.n.d [Paris, 18th November 1968], 1 p. in-4°
« You know I was planning to come this Monday… and try to overlook an incident whose consequences were unpleasant, to say the least »
Autograph poem signed « Aragon »
[Paris], 25 January [1945], 2 p. in-4°
« My love, I was in your arms »
Autograph letter signed « Al. de Lamartine » to Stéphanie de Virieu
Paris, 14th April 1841, 3 p. 1/2 in-8° on laid paper
« Was he not also my brother, and more than many brothers? »
Original photograph of Paul Verlaine by Otto Wegener
[Paris, 1893], cabinet format (10,8 x 16,8 cm)
Famous portrait of the poet in preparation of his candidacy for the Académie Française
Autograph letter signed « JM » to Constance de Gressy
Brussels, 24 Nov[ember] [18]81, 3 pp. in-8°
« I have never written a more solid work – not a lapse in the effects – it comes out the way I wanted – I am even stunned! »
Autograph letter signed « J Masse » to Constance de Gressy
Brussels, “Friday 5 pm” [25th November 1881], 3 p. in-8°
« I put so much care into the orchestration – I worked on it so much! »
Autograph letter signed « J. Massenet » to a friend
Paris, 18th June [18]79, 1 p. in-8°
« I’m expected in London and I’ll be back in Paris next Friday 27th for the composition competition»
Autograph letter to Théodore Charlet
« G… » [Gorizia, Italy], 15 oct[ober] 1843, 2 p. small in-8°
« My nephew is happily continuing his journey… his health is excellent »
Autograph letter (fragment ?) [to Robert le Vigan]
N.p.n.d [c. 1955], 1 p.1/2 in-4°
« Neither Jews, nor blacks, nor whites, nor Indians exist in the face of yellow miscegenation »
Autograph letter signed « MT » to Théodore Charlet
« V… » [Vienna, Austria], March 1st, 1850, 2 pp. in-8°
« Coming back from a little trip I made to see my niece Louise… »
Original photographe of Victor Hugo by Bertall
N.p.n.d [Brussels, 1867], carte-de-visite format
Elegant portrait of the poet during his exile
Letter signed « Necker »
Paris, July 12 1790, 1 p. in-folio on laid paper
« I saw with great satisfaction, in these speeches, the homage of the sentiments that the King is so worthy of obtaining, and which must animate all the French people »
Autograph carte-de-visite signed « GC. » [to Michel Alexandre Gaston Tournier]
N.p.n.d, 2 p. in-24° (7.4 x 4.8 cm)
« With my best wishes, my dear general »
Autograph letter signed « Valentine de Lamartine » to Victor de Laprade
Paris, 31st May 1872, 4 pp. in-8° on mourning paper
« Thank you, thank you for thus satisfying yourself in my work, the last worship that I can still render to the One who has been the Happiness and glory of my life. »
Late film print on postcard
N.p. [1875 ?], 9 x 11,6 cm
Handsome portrait of Maupassant in bust
Autograph letter signed « Juliette » to Victor Hugo
N.p, 12 February [1849], 4 pp. in-8°
« I like the violent and expeditious genre »
First edition of the 87th issue of journal L’Aurore
[Paris, 13th January 1898], 4 p. in-plano
« The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it »
Autograph manuscript
N.p.n.d, 6 p. in-folio
« Jean de la Fontaine: Very handsome boy, very whore »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel » to Reynaldo Hahn
N.p.n.d « Monday » [7th January 1907], 8 p. in-8° on mourning paper
« If you write to Montesquiou, tell him that the truth is out of his dilemma, in full improbability for those who do not know my life… »
Autograph letter signed « de Sade » to his aunt Gabrielle-Eléonore de Sade
N.p [Paris ?], 22nd April [1790], 3 pp. in-8°
« My room was searched and I lost everything… precious works, the fruit of fifteen years’ work, I have saved nothing »
Autograph letter signed « Claude Monet » [to Alice Hoschedé]
N.p.n.d, « Saturday 6h » [c. 1882-1883], 2 p. in-8°
« The weather here is dreadful, foggy enough to be seen and yet I have worked all the same, but it is sunshine that I would like, and it is very rare »
Autograph letter signed « A. Barbès » a republican writer in exile
The Hague, 6th February [18]69, 3 p. in-8° on blue laid paper
« It is abominable that France should have found herself in the direction of a tyranny capable of imprinting such a stain on its history! »
Original photography by Alfred Lorens, S. Petersbourg
Period albumen print [c. 1874], carte-de-visite format
Superb portrait of the Russian composer, aged 33
Autograph letter signed « GS » to Eugène Delacroix
[Paris, c. 1842], 1 p. in-8, autograph address on verso « Delacroix »
« If you can come and dine with us at Mrs. Marliani’s… »
Autograph letter signed « Paul Verlaine » to Léon Deschamps
Paris, 19th October 1890, 1 p. in-8°
« I had accompanied, very young and all obscure as I was, the coffin of Baudelaire »
Autograph letter signed « Charles » to his mother, Madame Aupick
[Paris], 1st July 1853, 3 p. in-8°
« What is quite certain is that I no longer want to give anything to chance in my life, and that I claim that the will occupies the full extent of it »
Autograph letter signed « C. Pissarro » to Théo Van Rysselberghe
[Bruges, Hôtel du] Singe d’Or, 3rd July [18]94, 2 p. in-8°
« I still have in my ear the sound of the waves and the color of the sea in my eye, you must have had beautiful effects last night »
Les Hommes d’Aujourd’hui
Original edition, n°318, 4 pp. in-4°
Proof copy with autograph corrections by Verlaine
Autograph letter signed « Votre P Verlaine » to l’abbé Louis Le Cardonnel
Paris, 9 Feb[ruary] [18]86, 2 p. 1/4 in-8° on mourning paper
« I don’t really know where I’m going, it’s called not living anymore »
Original photograph of Paul Verlaine by Paul Marsan, known as Dornac
[Paris, 28 May 1892], 135 x 180 mm
Timeless portrait of Verlaine, sitting on a bench at café François 1er, in front of a large glass of absinthe
Autograph card-letter signed « Z » [to Eugène Fasquelle]
[Queen’s Hotel, Upper Norwood], 1st February [18]99, 2 pp. petit in-12°
« The horrible waste we are going through… »
Autograph poem signed « Théophile Gautier »
[N.p.n.d], 1 p. in-8° in black ink on blue laid paper
« And on the mournful, doleful hill / I see my final dwelling-place »
Autograph letter signed « Napoléon » to Édouard Vandal
[Castle of] Wilhelmshöhe, 18 Dec[ember] 1870, 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« I am happy in these times of defamation and ingratitude, to be able to count on devotions like yours »
Autograph letter signed « Isabel de Borbon » to Anna de La Grange
Lequeitio, 4th August 1883, 4 p. in-12° on flowered paper
« You love me, I know it, as I love you »
Autograph letter signed « Bᴼⁿ de Vaux » to Robert Pinchon
Paris, 14 9bre [November] 1895, 1 p. in-8° on light blue paper
« The memory of our good days at Maupassant’s is still in my mind »
Autograph letter signed « DH Lawrence » to George Conway
Hôtel Beau Rivage, Bandol, 29th December 1928, 2 p. in-8°, with envelope
« Some people were much scandalized by Lady C. but many took it in the right spirit, and remain staunch to me »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris, 21st November 1918], 4 p. in-8°
« The human condition is so treacherously wicked… »
Autograph carte-de-visite
N.p.n.d [March 1927], 1 p. in-24°
« Have you received the “Cœurs purs” »
First draft poetic autograph notes
N.p.n.d, 3 p. in-4° on school paper
« La robe infâme / Fit naître ton émoi / Ainsi ton âme / Ne fut jamais à moi »
Original photograph with autograph inscription « A. Dumas »
N.p.n.d [after 1860], c.d.v format (9,8 x 5,5 cm)
« My dear little Augustine… »
Autograph manuscript signed « Jean Jaurès »
[Paris], c. 1st April 1905, 12 p. in-4°
« Several Republican groups are concerned about how to ensure the swift passage of the law on the separation of church and state »
Autograph letter signed « Ton Nadar » to a friend
N.p.n.d [Paris, 1857], 1 p. in-8
« I write to you at the Rabelais »
Autograph letter signed twice « Paul Verlaine » to Léon Deschamps
Paris, 23rd August 1892, 3 p. in-12° on bi-folio
« Baudelaire was my dearest fanaticism and is, that is to say, will remain one of my greatest admiration »
Spectacular portrait of the Prince impérial, period albumen print
[London], 28th July 1877, cabinet format (10,2 x 14,4 cm)
An uncommon portrait of the Prince Imperial, signed on each side of the cardboard
Autograph manuscript
N.p.n.d [c. 1980s], 1/2 p. in-4°
« Jus de truffe… »
Original drawings. Ink on paper [Dog and cat]
N.p.n.d [c. 1876-1880], 1 p. in-4° in black ink
Charming drawings by young Toulouse-Lautrec
Autograph manuscript signed « André Citroën »
N.p, 3rd April 1926, 1/2 p. in-8°
« It is through specialization and standardization that production is intensifies »
Autograph letter signed « A Derain » to a gallerist
Lisieux, 31st May 1915, 1 p. in-4° on graph paper
« Since the war I have been very abandoned by the painting world, I even wonder if I will ever do paint again »
Autograph letter signed « L. Pasteur » [to professor Charles Bouchard]
Paris, 19th July 1888, 3 pages in-8° on laid paper
« Its immunity has been tested by inoculation on the surface of the brain »
Autograph letter signed « Romain Rolland » to Louis Chazai
Villeneuve (Vaud) [Switzerland], 30th January 1924, 2 p.1/2 in-8°
« I am sending you my most recent book on Mahatma Gandhi, this extraordinary man who is stirring up the new Asia, this new Christ »
Autograph letter signed « P Verlaine » to Jules Rais
[Paris] 39 rue Descartes, 2 January [18]96, 1 p. in-12° on laid paper
« I’m writing to you so little and so badly »
Autograph poem signed « Paul Eluard »
N.p.n.d, 2 p. in-folio on thin green paper
« The eyelid of the sun lowers on your face »
Autograph letter signed « MT » to Théodore Charlet
Vienna [Austria], 9th April 1850, 1 p. in-8° on bifolio
« Je suis revenue samedi passé à ma campagne, charmée de m’y retrouver. Dans une quinzaine mon neveu y reviendra. »
Original photographe in cabinet format
[Paris, 23rd May 1885], Cabinet format: 10 x 16,50 cm
Moving portrait of the great man on his deathbed by Nadar
Autograph poem signed « Paul Verlaine »
London, 1873, 1 p. in-8°, on laid paper
« O le feu du ciel sur cette ville de la Bible ! »
Set of two autograph cards signed
Paris, 1st and 6th October 1780, 2 p. in-24°
Two cards transported by mounted balloon during the Siege of Paris
Autograph letter signed twice « Sacha Guitry » to a gentleman
N.p.n.d « 3 in the morning », 1 p. in-4°
« 3 o’clock in the morning – really! »
Autograph letter signed « Barbara » to Jean [Poissonnier]
N.p.n.d [Amsterdam, c. 1976], 1 p. 1/2 in-8°, Apollo Hotel letterhead
« It’s a lot of light and shadow, it’s far, far away… »
Les Hommes d’Aujourd’hui
First edition [1891], n°390, 4 pp. in-4°
Extremely rare original copy of the issue dedicated to Van Gogh
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » à Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris, after February 7th, 1922] 3 p. in-8° on light grey paper
« There is a good chance that you did not notice that I was at Princess Soutzo’s the other evening »
Autograph carte-de-visite signed « A.D » to Gaston Calmette
N.p.n.d [Paris, between 1885 and 1897], 1 p. in-24°
« Here, my dear Calmette, is the answer requested »
Autograph letter signed « Maurice Ravel » to Maurice Emmanuel
[Montfort-l’Amaury], « 14/10/[19]22 », 4 p. in-8°
« An upward progression of sound »
Autograph letter signed « Bourdelle » to M. Thiebaut-Sissou
Paris, 9th March 1920, 1 p. in-8°
« I won’t be exhibiting at the show, or very little. I am at great work and that alone binds me »
Autograph letter signed « LFCéline » to his friends Descaves
Copenhagen, 7th July [1947], (c/o Mikkelsen), 2 pages in-folio
« The country of France does not deserve its writers… »
6 autograph letters signed, all adressed to Variétés journal
Carcassonne, 1946-1947, 21 pages in-8
Cosmic reality and color, Dubuffet & Bellmer…
First draft autograph manuscript
N.p.n.d [summer 1949?], 8 p. in-4°
« Existentialism: man is outside himself in the world, outside the present in the future, he is produced by causes but he goes beyond and judges causes… »
Autograph poem signed « Sully Prudhomme »
N.p.n.d, 1 p. in-8° on laid paper
« Here below, all men weep / Their friendships or their loves / I dream of the kisses that remain / Always… »
Period photographs on albumen paper
Adèle Foucher – Auguste Vacquerie
Beautiful original prints from Victor Hugo’s inner circle
Autograph letter signed « Romain Rolland » to an art review director
Villeneuve (Vaud) [Switzerland], 15 novembre 1929, 2 p. in-8°
« I’m far too busy with my creation to be able to write articles about art at the moment »
Autograph letter signed « Barbara » to Jean [Poissonnier]
N.p.n.d, 1 p. in-8°
« I am silent, struggling in dark dramas »
Portrait of Anton Rubinstein, vintage albumen print
[Berlin, c. 1847], carte-de-visite format
Elegant portrait of the young Russian composer and prodigy
Autograph letter signed « G Caillebotte » to Claude Monet
N.p.n.d, Friday [Petit-Gennevilliers, after 1887 ?], 3 pp. in-8°
« I have covered a lot of canvases and wasted a lot of colour »
Lettre autographe signée « Marie Laurencin » à Roger Nimier
[Paris, 20 mars 1952], 4 p. in-12°
« Judges have scared me since the story of Guillaume Apollinaire »
Autograph letter signed « F. Mistral » [à Thérèse Boissière, (née Roumanille) ?]
Maillane, 4th June 1901, 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« I asked the félibre Bacquié-Fonade if by chance he would know where your father had published his Carmagnole »
Autograph letter signed « Henri Bergson » to Jean Becquerel
Paris, 24 Sept[ember] 1922, 16 pages in-8°
« From the point of view of the theory of Relativity, there is no longer absolute motion or absolute immobility »
Autograph letter signed « de Balzac » to Charles Motte
[Paris], « 8 8bre » [October 1831], 2 p. in-8°
« Let me add seriously that I offer you my book »
Autograph letter signed « Francis Poulenc » to Frederick Woods
[Saint-Raphaël], 3rd April 1960, 1 p. in-12°
« Excuse me, but I don’t have the time or the inclination to talk about the Bal Masqué »
Autograph letter signed « George Sand » to Cora Chamberlaine
Nohant, 5th May [18]70, 6 pp. in-8°
« I think I said in the Story of my life that perhaps one should speak of oneself once in one’s life, in order not to think about it again and not to return to it »
Autograph letter signed « Guy » to Lucie Le Poittevin
[Antibes or Cannes, late 1886 or early 1887], 2 p. small in-8°
« I sail a lot, fencing with rage, I walk, so I do all the exercises, except… affection. But I don’t need it »
Poème autographe [signed]
N.p.n.d, 1 p. in-8° on laid paper
« It’s all right, little man, oh yes! do it, harder »
Autograph letter to Alphonsine Masson
[Marine Terrace, Jersey], 5th August [1855], 4 pp. small in-12°
« And every night I look up there, I make signs of intelligence to the heavenly eyes of the night, and it seems to me that I see her »
Autograph letter signed « Picasso » to Max Pellequer
[Château de] Vauvenargues, « le 24.[0]6.[19]59 », 1 p. in-8° in oil pastel
« You just left this morning and already I’m bothering you again »
Autograph letter signed « S. de Beauvoir » to Berthe Mandinaud
[Paris, 17th December 1957], 1/4 p. in-4°
« With all my gratitude »
Les Hommes d’Aujourd’hui
First edition [1885], n°296, 4 pp. in-4°
Very scarce proof copy, depicting Mallarmé as a faun, a pan flute in his hands
Epistolary autograph poem signed « Guillaume Apollinaire », to André Billy
Nîmes, 20th March 1915, 1 p. in-8° on Café Tortoni’s letterhead
« On his beautiful forehead shines a flame / In his hand blooms a twig »
Autograph letter signed « Ste Beuve » to Adèle Foucher
Besançon, 14 October 1829, 3 p. in-4°
« In truth, madame, what a foolish idea I had to leave your hospitable home without purpose, the fruitful and encouraging words of Victor… »
First draft manuscript for the poem “Le Voyageur”, from the poem collection Alcools
N.p.n.d [c. 1909-1910], 2 p. in-4to, black ink, multiple corrections
« Deux matelots qui ne s’étaient jamais quittés »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel » to Maurice [Escande]
Paris, 6th June 1967, 1 p. in-4°
« I often can’t animate myself! »
Autograph document signed « Giacomo Puccini »
Paris, 9th June 1910, 1 p. in-folio (32 x 20 cm)
Spectacular large-format inscription for his opera The Girl of the golden West
Portrait of the Prince Impérial by Elliott & Fry
[London, c. 1875], albumen carte-de-visite
Elegant portrait of Prince Imperial, printed in his honor after his tragic death in Southern Africa
Autograph letter signed “M Foucault” to Claude Bonnefoy
N.p, 14th December [1965], 1 page 1/4 in-4
“It was a challenge – it seems to me – to talk about Genet after Sartre”
Autograph manuscript signed « G Sand » for her novel Consuelo [fragments]
[Nohant and Paris, between late 1842 and early 1843] 27 p. in-8°
« End of Consuelo »
Autograph letter signed « Alphonse Daudet » [to Timoléon Ambroy]
[Paris, c. 23rd August 1870], 4 pp. in-12°
« It is a new instinct that is being pushed into me: the patriotic instinct »
Autograph manuscript signed « Paul Claudel »
N.p, 4th January 1951, 2 p. in-4°
« Joan is tied to her pole which represents faith. She is rooted in an immutable certainty »
Autograph letter signed « Francis Poulenc » to [Philippe] Parès
Cannes [1928 ?], 1 p. 1/2 in-4° on light blue paper
« Will I have the joy of hearing the trio’s trials already? You know that nothing in the world amuses me more »
Autograph letter signed « Lamartine » [to Jean-Marie Dargaud]
[Castle of] Monceau, 25 [August 1850], 4 p. in-8°
« I know very well that the inconveniences of temper disappear after death, and that only the memory of loyal virtues and attachment remains »
Autographe manuscript
N.p.n.d [6th December 1854], 1 p. in-8°
« I remember in what implacable frosts and in what heroic fire this literary boast of the Emperor Napoleon was written »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris], 16th April 1918, 1 p. in-8°
« I will arrange to see you very soon »
Autograph manuscript on his vision of poetry
N.p.n.d [50s], 6 pp. in-4°
« However, Arthur Rimbaud… »
Autograph letter (draft) to count Guy de Pourtalès
S.l, “Saturday 16 9bre [November] [19]29″, 2 p. in-8°
« The eternal return is only music »
Autograph letter signed « Gve Flaubert » to Paule Sandeau
[Croisset], Saturday [16th November 1867], 3 p. in-8° on blue laid paper
« After that one, good evening! I will say goodbye to the bourgeois for the rest of my life »
Autograph poem : « Romance » [Seule au Rendez-vous]
N.p.n.d [after 1833], 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« Ô menteur ! qui disait sa vie / Nouée au fuseau de mon sort »
Autograph letter signed « H. Bergson » to Michel Georges-Michel
Saint-Cergue, 1st August 1926, 3 pp. in-8°
« There is an uninterrupted current of humour that flows through these pages and is not, it must be admitted, the characteristic of my work »
Autograph letter signed « le Maāl Duc de Broglie » to a gentleman
Paris, 8th June 1778, 1 p. in-8°
« Recommend him also to Mr. The Marquis de Lafayette, to whom I wish all the glory and happiness he deserves »
Autograph letter signed « JF » (revised draft) [to Élisa Bonaparte]
Linz, 16 7bre [September] 1819, 2 p. in-8°
« I have allowed myself only one reproach against Napoleon; it is that he has too often done small things when he had the means to do great ones »
Letter signed « Buk » to Raphaël Sorin
N.p, 17 Oct[ober] 1977, 1 p. in-4°
« I am punching it out, almost madly… drinking 2 to 3 bottles of wine a night, playing the horses during the day, fighting with my girlfriend off and on »
Autograph letter to Victor Hugo
Paris, 20th April [18]77, 4 pp. in-24°
« My opinion is to delight you in everything and always and to adore you on both knees »
Two autograph letters signed « Gve Flaubert » to Émile Zola
[Croisset, 2th May and 3rd June 1874], 5 pp. in-8°
« It’s very strong! my good man! I read it all at once, and I am giddy with it »
Autograph letter signed « G Caillebotte » to Claude Monet
S.l.n.d, Friday [Petit-Gennevilliers, after 1887], 1 p. in-8°
« Effet extraordinaire en masse »
Autograph letter signed “GSand” [to Paul Porel]
Nohant, May 28 [18]76, 1 page in-8 in black ink
« I still hope to go to Paris before the Odéon closes »
Autograph letter signed « Juliette » to Victor Hugo
[Paris], 16th April [1847], 4 pp. in-8°
« I spend my life desiring you, regretting you and trembling »
Autograph letter signed « Bourdelle » to a friend
Paris, 12th April 1920, 2 pp. in-8°
« My technique, learned and supplemented by Rodin, is even inscribed in portraiture »
Autograph letter signed « Paul Gauguin » to Daniel de Monfreid
[Tahiti], November 1895, 3 p. 1/4 in-4°
« Every night frenzied girls invade my bed; yesterday I had three to function »
Original silver print enriched with a signed autograph inscription
[Portlligat, 1977], 13,8 x 14,4 cm
Nice print depicting Dalí in conversation, doubly autographed by him and enriched with an original drawing
Autograph letter signed « Rimbaud » to his family
Aden, 10th September 1884, 4 pp. in-8° on laid paper
« And since every man is a slave in this miserable fatality »
Autograph letter signed « Colette de Jouvenel » to a colleague
[Paris], n.d (between November 1916 and December 1926), 1 p. in-4°
« I only spent a few hours in Nice… »
Autograph letter signed « Fély » to Octave Uzanne
[Paris, c. 1890], 1 p. in-12
« Since this morning, I have met three Jews with otter necks whom my grandfather had had beaten fifty years ago »
Autograph letter signed « Ste Beuve » to Auguste Lacaussade
N.p.n.d, « this 21st July », 1 p. in-8° on creamy paper
« Musset should not be judged until after having reread Byron. Then one would have the true feeling of insults and distances »
Period film print
[Portlligat, c. 1977] 27,3 x 19 cm
Spectacular signature of the artist on a print representing one of his most emblematic works
Two autograph letters signed « Gaston Doumergue » to notary Leverne
Paris, 11th November 1926 et 21st May 1931, 2 p. in-8°
«I request you to hand over to Mrs. Graves all remaining documents in your study concerning our agreement of July 1926 »
Autograph letter signed « Beauh. de Lavalette » to Eugène de Beauharnais
N.p, [11th] May [1807], 5 p. in-12°
« We have been so dejected and discouraged by the loss of my poor cousin »
Autograph letter signed « Beaumarchais » to Pierre-Charles-Louis Baudin
N.p, « ce 15 floréal » [4th May 1797], 1 p. small in-8°
« And I, a useless man! I beg you to accept the dreams of my hat »
Autograph card signed « PB » to André Dubois
[Cologne, 10 IX 1952], 1 p. in-8° on a postcard’s verso
« What shall I tell you about the journeys in this divine valley that Victor Hugo has not already said? »
Autograph letter signed « Caroline » to a prince
[Naples, 15th May 1813], 2 p. in-8°
« I have just received the telegraphic news of the victory won by the Emperor »
Autograph signed quatrain « M. de Heredia » to the marquise de Saint-Paul
N.p.n.d [1894], 1 p. in-8°
« Carmen m’a donné la rose / Qui sur son cœur s’effeuillait »
Autograph poem signed « Paul Eluard »
N.p, 1942, 1 p. in-folio (21 x 31 cm) on brown paper
« The night before his death / Was the shortest of his life »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Robert de Montesquiou
[Paris], « 9 Bd Malesherbes » [27th May 1895], 1 p. in-12° on ‘petit bleu’
« Tomorrow some of my worst verses will be heard »
Autograph letter signed twice « Jean Cocteau » and « Jean » to Michaël Smithies
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 3rd June 1956, 6 pages in-8° with envelope
« Art escapes progress »
Contract signed « Édit Piaf » and « Bruno Coquatrix »
Paris, 29th February 1956, 1 p. 1/2 in-4°
« Mrs. EDITH PIAF will do the entire second part of the show »
Autograph letter signed « Max Jacob » to Pierre Lagarde
St Benoît sur Loire, 6th April 1942, 1 p. in-4°
« What would you say if one of your own was in a concentration camp and died there… »
Original drawing, inscribed to Reynaldo Hahn : « R.H. (Bininuls) »
N.p.n.d [c. 1909 ?], 1 p. in-8° in black ink on laid paper
Precious drawing by the writer, dedicated to his « Bininuls »
Autograph letter signed « C » [to Louis de Fontanes ?]
[La Vallée-aux-Loups] 9 7bre [September] 1813, 3 p. in-8°
« I am as old as Herod. I only dream of the history of the past. I’m only in love with Agnès Sorel »
Autograph letter signed « Louis » to his wife Lucette Destouches
[Vestre Faengsel Prison, Copenhagen], 16 February [194]6, 2 p. in-folio
« I will soon be found to be the Main Person responsible for all the Jewish martyrs… »
Autograph poem signed « Max Jacob » to Pierre Lagarde
St Benoît sur Loire, 17th August 1936, 1 p. in-4°
« Will love come back? »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » [to Léon Deschamps]
Paris, 20th March 1893, 1 p. in-8° on laid paper
« A few usual banal lines about Baudelaire… »
Autograph manuscript signed « Romain Rolland »
N.p, April 1928, 1 p. in-4°
« Too many abuses, old and new, have an interest in hindering the awakening of the Soul »
Autograph letter signed « Ton N°I el Viejo » to his mistress Jeanne Schneider
Fleury-Mérogis prison, 3rd December 1976, 3 p. in-4°
« I’m not a patient man with the 97% of faggots that surround us… I may kill one at the first serious discussion »
Autograph letter signed « Françoise Sagan » to « Henri »
Paris, 167 blvd Malesherbes [c. 1950s], 3 pp. in-4°
« I’ll be happy to fail with you »
Period film print
[Winter 1944, Berlin area?], 5,9 x 9 cm
Vintage print of the writer with autograph annotation
Two autograph cards signed (Ledringhem, 2 & 27 Dec. 1914)
Autograph cards signed « Schneider » and « Colonel Blacque-Belair »
« I was happy to have been able to get your son the medal he deserved less for his wound than for his courage »
Autograph postcard to his parents
[Flanders], 16 Oct[ober] [19]14 (postmark), 2 pages in-12°
« This cursed war »
Autograph letter signed « Louis-Napoléon » to his friend Pierre de Bourgoing
Camden Place [Chislehurst], 27th February 1871, 2 p. in-8°
« Who would have thought, when we were fighting there with chestnuts last summer, that the French and the Prussians would cut each other’s throats! »
Autograph poem: Sans mot dire
N.p.n.d [late 1919], 1 p. in-8°
« My pain is none of your business »
Autograph letter signed « Paul Valéry » to Maurice Noël
N.p.n.d « Wednesday » [6th May 1942 ?], 2 p. in-8°
« I chatted with Gide (in Marseilles) who gave me full powers, before embarking for Tunis »
Draft of an autograph poem
N.p.n.d [Guernesey, 1859], 1 p. in-8° (140 x 145 cm)
« Never mind O traitor! at point-blank range my book shoots you! »
Autograph letter signed « Antonin Artaud » to his sister Marie-Ange Malausséna
Espalion, 7th April 1946, 2 pages in-8
« You would do me a great service by sending me 4 or 5 tubes »
Autograph draft of a poem fragment
N.p.n.d, [Guernesey, c. 1854], 1 p. in-12° on thin blue paper
« Ils ouvrent cette nuit que nul rayon ne perce / Ils y font brusquement tomber à la renverse / Les pâles cadavres béants ! »
Period albumen print
[Paris, between late 1861 and early 1862]. Wet stamp « Et. Carjat »
Étienne Carjat’s masterpiece, the only known period print
Corrected proofs for his novel The Beast within
Paris, January 1890, 45 proofs printed on recto
« I love you, I will never let anyone hurt you… See, how good it is to be so, one in another ! »
Autograph letter to Emmanuel Arago
[Nohant, 3rd January 1836], 3 p. in-4°
« Should we be angry against humanity? I used up all my indignation when I was younger. Nothing surprises me anymore, neither the bad nor the good »
Autograph letter signed « Aragon » [to Elisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre]
N.p.n.d, [1950], 1 p. in-4°
« Excuse me, Madam, for not wanting to have lunch with Thomas Mann… »
Autograph letter signed « Karen Blixen » to Negley Farson
Rungstedlund, Rungsted Kyst, 20.12.1957, 3 pp. in-8°
« The greatest passion of my life has been my love for the Africans! »
Autograph letter signed « Robert Louis Stevenson » to Hubert Smith-Stainer
Edinburgh, [Pitlochry, 6th June 1881], 3 pp. in-8°
« Two or three nights under the stars… »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » [to Albert Lacroix]
Paris, 13 Sept[ember] 1867, 2 pp. in-8°
« I’m counting on a horror success »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Fernand Desmoulin
Médan, 8th August 1895, 2 pp. in-8°
« I ended up despising the weather, going out in the downpours, which means that I come back soaked, covered in mud »
Autograph letter signed « P. Verlaine » to Armand Gouzien
Paris-Montmartre, [September-October 1871], 2 p. in-8°
« My wife, who is pregnant, was horribly unwell last night and I was on my feet and on my teeth »
Autograph letter signed « E. Delacroix » to Félix Guillemardet
[Souillac], 30 8bre [October] 1820, 3 p. 1/2 large in-4°
« Goodbye sketches and studies. I miss you very much »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris], 1st February 1915 (post mark), 4 p. in-8° in black in on laid paper
« In the meantime, I can’t stop thinking about you… »
Autograph letter signed « Marie Laurencin » to Roger Nimier
St-Benoît-sur-Loire, 30th August [1952], 3 p. 1/2 in-12° with an original drawing
« The little bit of library – Mauriac – Proust – Gide – Bernanos etc. »
Autograph letter to his sister, Pauline Périer-Lagrange
N.p, « Sunday », [13rd May 1810], 3 p. 1/4 in-4°
« My days here are filled by a woman, whom I am not in love with, but whom I constantly think about »
[Second notice on] Pierre Dupont – Corrected proof
[Paris] 6th June 1861 [stamped], 11 p. in-8vo bradel
“The public was so tired of Victor Hugo’s tireless faculties, his indestructible beauties”
Period albumen print
[Liège, c. July 1893], cabinet format
Precious unpublished portrait of the artist
Autograph manuscript signed « Paul Eluard »
N.p.n.d [c. May 1943], 6 p. in-8°
« Will I be the one who kills / Or the one who is being killed »
Autograph letter signed « Picasso » to Max Pellequer
[Château de] Vauvenargues, “14.[0]4.[19]61”, 1 p. 1/4 in-4°
« We have been here since yesterday and will be staying for a few days »
Autograph letter to Léonce de Lavergne
Paris, 6th August 1838, 3 p. 1/2 small in-4° on bifolio
« I walked on this beach where Bonaparte took his last step »
Autograph letter signed « Édit Piaf » to a friend
Paris, 6th June 1946, 1/2 p. in-4° on her letterhead
« I wish you in life to be as happy as I am right now, even with a man who doesn’t love me! »
Autograph letter signed « Eydith » to Yves Montand
« Nevers, 16th May 1945 at noon and twenty three minutes », 2 p. 1/2 in-8°
« I love you to death »
Autograph letter signed « Louis-Napoléon » [to Marie Trotter]
Camden Place, Chislehurst (Kent), the 25th of March, 1871, 1 p. in-8°
« Thanks be to God, the Emperor is now with us… deeply moved, as we all were, by the sympathetic reception he had received from the English nation. »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Hortense Cornu
[Camden Place, Chislehurst] 13th January [1875], 8 pp. in-8°, mourning paper
« What a singular destiny which makes it so that the most French hearts, the Napoleons, must all to this day be laid in a foreign coffin »
Autograph letter signed « Petain » [to Jean-Louis Forain ?]
N.p, 10th August 1918, 1 p. in-8° on his letterhead
« A few corpses descend the Marne along the water… »
Autograph letter signed « Gérard de Nerval » to actor Pierre Bocage
[Paris], « ce mardi » [19 October 1852], 1 p. in-8°
« It seems to me that the cause is not lost »
Original photography of Victor Hugo by Alexandre Quinet
[Veules-les-Roses, c. 1882], 11,8 x 16,4 cm
Victor Hugo’s only period print at Veules-les-Roses, at his friend’s Paul Meurice
Autograph dispatch signed « Napoléon » to Charles Duperré
[Wilhlmeshoehe castle, 6-8 September 1870], 1/2 p. in-8°
« Where is the Empress »
Autograph letter signed « Joan » to Maria [San Lazzaro]
Folgarolas 9, Barcelona, 23rd December 1955, 1 p. in-4°
« I was awfully busy preparing my next exhibition »
Autograph letter signed « M » to André Malraux
[Paris, 6th February 1928], 1 p. petit in-8°
« Grasset doesn’t like your novel, and Paulhan admires it very much »
“Mini” autograph letter signed « V. » to Émile Allix
H[auteville] H[house], 25th July [1862], 2 p. small in-24° on blue paper
« I’m going to see my Charles in a few days. It will be a deep joy, and I deserve it a little after this heavy work »
Autograph manuscript signed « Léon Daudet »
N.p.n.d [Paris, June 1932], 4 pp. large in-4°
« Manet is the beauty of colour, the celebration of the decomposition of light through the prism »
Autograph letter signed “Victor H” [to Joséphine Trébuchet]
Brussels, 19th December [1851], 1 page in-8°
“I fought for the right, for the truth, for the righteous, for the people, for France”
A set of twenty-two autograph letters, of which three are signed, to Alfred de Vigny
[Paris, Reims, Versailles and Rouen], 72 p. in various formats, two autograph envelopes
« All those words in your letter are so many stabs in my heart »
Autograph letter signed « Votre Colette » to the Guillermet
S.l, [15th April 1946], 2 p. in-8°
« If at least my book (L’étoile Vesper) had come out in time, you would have had it for your birthday »
Autograph letter signed « P. Cl. » [to Joseph Desclausais]
W[ashington], 15th March 1933, 3 p. 1/4 large in-8°
« I thought you were theological, and I see that you know less than a 12-year-old »
Autograph letter signed « René Char » [to Marianne Oswald]
L’Isle-sur-Sorgue, 15th Oct[ober] [19]49, 1 p. in-4°
« I’m always ill, having no envy for my books done or to be done. Life is constantly oscillating between fire and dung. »
Autograph letter signed « LD » to Jean-Gabriel Daragnès
Copenhagen, 19th March [19]47, 2 p. in-4°
« Everything eventually comes to light »
Autograph letter signed « C.B. » to his mother, Madame Aupick
[Brussels], « Monday 13th November 1865 », 4 p. in-8°
« I feel forgotten. I am sad. I’m no longer good for anything. I’m bored to death »
Two autograph letters signed « Jacqueline » to Angelika de Kostrowitsky
[Paris, 4th and 6th January 1918], 2 p. in-8°
« The local major sent him to the hospital where he was trepanned »
Autograph-card letter signed « Jules Renard » [to Georges Moreau]
[Paris], 14th June 1895, 1 p. 1/2 in-12°
« The unpublished chapter of Poil de Carotte… »
Autograph letter signed « Max » to Pierre Lagarde
[St Benoît sur Loire], 10th August [19]42, 1 p. in-4°
« I can suffer more from my gossip, my sensual glances, than from the persecution of the Jews »
Autograph letter signed « Max Jacob » to Pierre Lagarde
St Benoît [sur Loire], 23rd January [19]40, 1 p. in-4° with envelope
« I suffer to the point of tears and I pray very especially for you »
Autograph letter signed « Max Jacob » to Raymond Trillat
[St Benoît-sur-Loire], 12th September [1942], 2 p. in-4°
« Here daily visits to such an extent that a report was made (denunciation) to the police… »
Autograph letter signed « LF » to Jean-Gabriel Daragnès
N.p, [Danemark], « le Dimanche » [25th June 1950], 4 p. in-folio
« I think we’re going to get back on a lease with life »
Two autograph letters signed « Jean Cocteau » to Henri Duvernois
N.p.n.d, c. 1912, 2 p. in-4°
« Not an article about “Dance”. It’s funny! »
Autograph letter signed « Charles Baudelaire » to Alphonse de Calonne
[Paris], 23rd February [18]64, 1 p. in-8° on blue paper
« A heavy work, I assure you, but of which I am quite happy »
Autograph letter signed « P.V » [à Maurice Noël]
N.p.n.d, « Saturday », 1 p. in-8°
« If Le Figaro finds it too abstract, send it back to me »
Autograph letter signed « François Mauriac » to Jacques Boulanger
[Paris] 89 rue de la Pompe, 31 Oct[ober] 1920, 1 p. in-12°
« Friends are telling me today about a very kind review you gave of my novel »
Letter signed « Lamartine » to M. Meyer
Paris, 21st May [1842], 1 p. small in-8°
« I have not received the comments on Montesquieu’s Persian letters of which you were kind enough to mention to me »
Autograph manuscript signed « Émile Bernard »
N.p.n.d, 10 p. in-4°
« David’s nefarious work being accomplished, Gros had died for art »
Period albumen portrait by Vezenberg & Co
Saint Petersburg [1879], cdv format
Very scarce portrait of the author of Crime and Punishment
Autograph letter signed « Pupuce » to Yves Montand
Metz, 5th April 1946, 2 pp. in-4° on the Hôtel de Metz’s letterhead
« When I get on stage, people are screaming and I haven’t sung yet, you can see that my reputation goes a long way… »
Autograph letter signed « G.S. » to Eugène Delacroix
[Paris] Postal mark [23rd December 1841], 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« I saw your femmes d’Alger »
Autograph letter signed “Antonin Artaud” to his sister Marie-Ange Malausséna
Espalion, 11th April 1946, 4 pages in-8
“High-dose heroin does not cause addiction when it is of good quality”
Autograph letter signed « Sempé » to Gérard Leman
Paris, 15th January [19]68, 1 p. in-4° with autograph envelope
« I work so slowly… »
Autograph postcard signed « Jean Giono » to Anna Robin
Manosque, [31st August 1941], 1 p. in-8°
« I owe a great deal of my happiness to you »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to an unknown recipient
[Camden Place, Chislehurst], 4 February [18]73, 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« Sensitive to your sympathy and the regrets you express to me for the one we mourn »
Autograph letter signed « Antonin Artaud » to Adrienne Monnier
Psychiatric Hospital of Ville-Evrard, 4th March 1939, 2 p. in-4° with enveloppe
« This story of look-alikes is as old as centuries, and all the great characters throughout history have found real doubles »
Autograph letter signed « Flaubert » to Charles Vacquerie
Rouen le 12 Xbre [December] 1838, 1 p. 1/2 in-4° in black ink
« I think at this moment that a bloodletting of the arms is useful to you »
Letter signed « Duc de Bassano » to the Comte de la Chapelle, Alfred de Morton
[Camden Place, Chislehurst] July 1879, 1 p. in-8° on mourning paper
« I have been instructed by Her Majesty the Empress to convey to you her many thanks for the sentiments you have expressed to her in her immense misfortune »
Portrait of the Prince Impérial by Gösta Florman, period albumen print
[Stockholm, 1878], carte-de-visite format
Supere portrait of the Prince Impérial by Gösta Florman
Autograph letter signed « H. Bergson » to Raphaël Cor
Paris, 22nd March 1935, 2 p. in-8°
« I find interesting the relationship you establish between immoralism and the sexual question… »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to a colleague
Paris, 12th November [18]93, 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
“When I have finished a book and given it to the public, it no longer exists for me. All my passion collapses”
Autograph letter signed twice to the Salacrou couple
N.p.n.d [4th july 1925], 2 p. in-8°
« Oh! Satie! Nightmare! »
Autograph letter signed « Paul Gauguin » to a collector
N.p.n.d [Paris, 1st or 2nd November 1893], 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« The exhibition will be launched on the 9th »
Portrait of Napoléon III by Disdéri
N.p.n.d, c. 1868, cdv format
Famous and elegant full-length portrait of Emperor Napoleon III
Autograph letter signed « Georges Ghika » to Liane de Pougy, princesse Ghika
Le Clos-Marie, Roscoff, 2nd July 1924, 2 p. in-4°
« It seems that your pearly body, slightly amber from distant sailings... »
Autograph letter signed « Alberto Giacometti » to David Thompson
Paris, 2th August 1956, 3 p. in-8°
« Because of sculpture I am forced to neglect painting »
Original drawings and autograph poem
N.p.n.d [c. 1935], 1 p. in-8° (16 x 20,5 cm)
« I empty my evil »
Autograph letter signed « Jean Potocki » to Firmin Didot
Tulczyn, 1st December [1810], 1 1/4 p. in-4°
« I realize every day that it is difficult to see clearly in science when you are so far from the home of the enlightenment »
Autograph letter signed « Edmond de Goncourt » to a lady
N.p, 5 7bre [September] [18]93, 2 p. in-8°
« Jules’ coffin has remained intact, and so there is now, without new digging, a place for Edmond de Goncourt »
Autograph letter signed « Joseph Vacher » to doctor Lacassagne
[Prison of] Belley, le 30 Xbre [December] 1897, 4 p. in-8°
Letter of a serial killer
Autograph letter signed « Aragon » (draft), to René Char
[Paris, 10th August 1946], 1 p. 1/2 in-4°
« I do not accept to be lectured, I admit even less that it is claimed to be given to Esla. And the Olympian tone of your letter proves to me that if there are some who get lost, it is only in the image of kicking the ass »
Autograph manuscript signed twice « Rimbaud », to Armand Savouré
Harar, 30 March 1890, 1/2 p. in-4°
Unpublished receipt from Harar intended to Armand Savouré, the last before Rimbaud ceased all activity with him
Autograph letter to Claire de Duras
N.p.n.d, “Sunday” [after 1815], 1 p. in-12°
« Will you go this evening to visit Mde de la Châtre ? »
Autograph letter signed « Alexandrine Zola » to Gabriel Thyébaut
[Paris], 7 8bre [octobre] 1906, 8 pp. in-8° à l’encre violette sur papier de deuil
« I always think I die at every step, when I go up to this study in which life has also gone »
Portrait of Paul Valéry, period film print
[Paris, c. 20’s], cabinet format
Handsome and scarce portrait of Paul Valéry by Henri Manuel
Period photographic print, signed twice
N.p, 22 Dec[ember] 1952, 23,5 x 17,3 cm
Nice and large autographed print of the writer
Autograph preparatory manuscript for Les Mots
N.p.n.d [c. 1953-1955], 1 p. in-4°
« I became someone, an Other »
Autograph letter signed « C. Pissarro » to Noël Clément-Janin
Paris, 19th Feb[ruary] 1892, 1 p. 1/2 in-8°, with envelope
« Turner, Delacroix, Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Jongkind, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Guillaumin, Sisley, Seurat ! This is our march. »
Autograph letter signed « Charles Maurras » to Louis-Xavier de Ricard
S.l, 31st December [1892], 15 p. in-8°, bespoke binding by Michel Kieffer
« I confess that I am anti-Jewish without being anti-Semitic »
Autograph letter signed “Degas” to collector Montagnac
Np, 27 June [18]95, 2 pages in-8°
“I pay you as follow: three pastels from me”
Autograph letter signed « Mary Cassatt » to Achille Segard
Villa Angeletto – Grasse, 14th April [1913], 6 p. in-8° on mourning paper
« And then I wanted to be such a great painter, Titian or Rembrandt, just that… »
Autograph letter signed « HB » to Joë Bousquet
Revel, Tuesday 11 Sept[ember] 1945, 1 p. in-4° on pink paper
« I write like an articulated doll »
Autograph manuscript (first draft)
N.p.n.d [1971], 4 p. 1/2 in-4°
« The target remained the same: a Negro who thinks… whose book is the announcement and preparation of a black revolution »
Autograph fragments for a satirical poem
S.l.n.d [Guernesey, 1870], two teared strips in-4°
« Brunet was once a clown. He was radiant / Above humans by dint of stupidity »
Letter signed « Lamartine » to Louis de Jacquelot
Paris, 8 9bre [November 1840], 2 p. in-8°
« The serious circumstances in which we found ourselves made me go out… of my usual calm in politics »
Autograph letter signed « L Davout » to his wife, Aimée Leclerc
Osterode [current Ostróda in Poland], 16 April [1807], 6 p. in-4°
« We do not know here whether the peaceful intentions of our emperor will prevail over the intrigues of our eternal enemies, but in any case we are more able than ever to make them triumph by our arms »
Autograph letter signed « Georges Braque », to Daniel Wallard
N.p, 19th February 19[44], 4 p. in-12°
« I will now get back to work, of which I have the violent desire »
Autograph letter signed « Masaryk » to a political activist
S.l, 21st December 1893, 2 p. 1/4 in-8°
« If the party turns against me, it opposes the men of confidence, as well as the vote of confidence that was granted to me »
Late print showing Flaubert in bust
[Paris, c. 1910], cabinet format mounted thick cardboard
Scarce and legendary portrait of Flaubert by Nadar
Autograph letter signed « R. Char » to Marianne Oswald
N.p.n.d, 2 p. in-8°
« Read my poems, they are composed for this, but do not ask me to show myself, nor to flaunt my poetic existence »
Autograph letter signed « J. Stalin » to Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan
N.p, 20th May 1931, 1 p. in-folio, red ink, in russian
« Just tell me concretely who I need to put pressure on »
Autograph letter signed « André Malraux » to a critic
Np, 30th [1933], 1 page in-8
“I understand, of course, the mistrust that a book about China can inspire”
Autograph letter signed « G.S. » to Eugène Delacroix
[Nohant, 13 August 1843], 4 p. in-8°, autograph address on fourth folio
« I no longer exist, I told you. It’s been three years since I died, having committed suicide voluntarily to prevent myself from dying and not to drag a ridiculous agony »
Autograph letter signed « Gus Flaubert » to Émile Zola
[Croisset, 25th July 1876], 3 p. in-8°
« I received yesterday from our young friend Maupassant a very pleasant epistle, and full of the detail of his lust – on a boat, with a fat woman »
Autograph letter signed « Le Vte de Chateaubriand » to Abel
Paris, 29th 7bre [September] 1815, 4 pp. in-8°
« I demanded freedom of thought, which brought Buonaparte’s fury and his new threats to have me shot »
Portrait of Clara Wieck-Schumann, vintage albumen print
[Vienna, c. 1870], carte-de-visite format
Famous portrait of Clara Wieck-Schumann by Fritz Luckhardt
Autograph letter signed « Adrien Bizot » to the Prince Impérial
Melun, 20 septembre 1878, 4 p. in-8°
« Sad country, Sad weather! But patience, the sun of Austerlitz is not dead! »
Photomontage on period albumen vintage print
N.p.n.d, cabinet format (10 x 13,5 cm)
Famous photomontage depicting the death of Napoleon III, surrounded by his family and loved ones
Portrait of Empress Eugenie by W&D Downey, period albumen print
[London, c. 1871], CDV format
Elegant portrait of the Empress, with a melancholic gaze
Autograph letter signed « René Char » to Marianne Oswald
N.p, 15th March, 2 p. in-8°
« Above all, we must talk about Albert and the abyssal emptiness that his disappearance caused. It is up to friendship to bloom this void »
Autograph letter signed « René Char » to Marianne Oswald
L’Isle [sur-la-Sorgue], 25 April [19]68, 1 p. 1/4 in-8°
« More than ever I understand Rimbaud to have “gone away”…»
Autograph poem signed « Alfred »
N.p.n.d, 1 p. in-folio
Nice autograph poem signed from his early years
Autograph letter signed « Nadar » to Ernest Vaughan from journal L’Aurore
Marseille, 26 8bre [October] [18]99, 2 page in-12
« And then I no longer see Clemenceau in my Aurore »
Autograph letter signed « Your boy H » to his mother Adèle Zoë Tapié de Céleyran
[Villiers-sur-Morin, fall 1886], 4 p. in-12
« I fly from ladder to ladder »
Autograph letter signed « And. Malraux » to Ventura García Calderón
Marrakech, 21st April [1952], 2 pages in-8, l’Hôtel de la Mamounia à Marrakech letterhead
“I have long thought that in literature any personal attack is futile”
Autograph letter signed “Victor Hugo” to a critic
28 January [1870], H[auteville] H[ouse], [Guernesey], 1 p. in-4
“I dedicate, like Aeschylus, my works to time”
Autograph letter signed “Ida”
[Between 1840 & 1844] Saturday, 1/2 p. in-12
“I had instructed Alexandre to present them to you, but I believe that he has forgotten my committee”
Autograph letter signed « P.S. » to Henry van de Velde
N.p.n.d (c. 1911-1912), 1 p. 1/2 in -8°
« Since the death of my dear mother, I have deferred to those who, like her, never do me so much good »
Autograph letter signed « C. Saint S » [to Louis Gallet]
S.l, 5 February, 2 p. in-4°
« This piece did not amuse me to do »
Autograph manuscript (fragments) accompanied by an autograph letter signed for La Longue Marche – Essai sur la Chine
[Paris, 1956] 15 pages in-4°, with two autograph envelopes
« China is not a political entity; I guess with joy, that it has a sky, its colors, its trees, a flesh »
Autograph letter signed « Ernest Psichari » to Maurice Reclus
Paris, 11th June 1902, 8 p. in-folio
« My only intention was, I swear, to couple words adrift, with harmony and rarity, as much as possible »
Autograph manuscript signed « JB Clément »
N.p, dated 23rd April 1869, 4 p. in-8°
« J’en couperai pour cette belle France / Dont j’ai chanté la gloire et les revers »
Autograph letter signed « Blaise » to Louis Brun
[Biarritz], 7th January 1933, 2 p. in-4to with envelope
« I’m not writing for an award »
Autograph letter signed « Benjamin Peret » to René Alleau
Paris, 12th February 1958, 1 p. in-4
“These failures are inherent to my condition as an independent and revolted intellectual….”
Autograph letter signed “André Gide” to Joseph Billiet
Cuverville, 15th MArch 1919, 2 p. 1/2 in-4
“It is about finding happiness beyond, beyond distress”
Autograph letter signed “Thre Chasseriau” to M. Lanthy
Wednesday at noon [14 September 1853], 1 p. in-8 with autograph address
“I am very embarrassed at the moment”
Autograph letter signed several times “Eugénie Krantz” to Edmond Lepelletier
Paris 29th January [1896], 4 p. in-12
Hospitalized a few days after Verlaine’s death and abandoned by all, Eugénie Krantz calls for desperate help
[5th December 1904], original period film print. Round photography (159 mm diameter), mounted on thick paper frame in the photographer’s name.
One of the last portraits of Jeanne Weil Proust, less than a year before her death
Autograph letter signed “Ton Jean” to Marianne
Milly, Monday 20th May [1958], 1 page in-4 adorned with an original drawing
“I have to do a job with Karajan at the Opera House”