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 in the third person « M. de Balzac » to Maurice Schlesinger
N.d.n.p, Sunday [1837], 1/2 p. in-8 with autograph address
“It is absolutely necessary to agree on Gambara”
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 letter signed « Gabriel Matzneff » to Jean le Marchand
Paris, 1st Apr. 1974, 2 p. in-8°
« If in this book my writing is discontinuous, fragmented, broken up, it is because for such a subject it could not have been otherwise »
Original work signed « F. Rops »: Les Jeunes [France par Th. Gautier]
N.p., [1866], 18.5 x 13 cm (ruled frame 15 x 10 cm), graphite and pen
Preparatory study for the legendary frontispiece of Les Jeunes France
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Paul Meurice
Paris, Monday (February 1870), 2 pages in-8, address on verso
« I would like to do for Balzac what Camille Pelletan has done for Flaubert…”
Autograph letter signed [draft] « Emile Zola » à Albert Millaud
Paris, 9th Sept. 1876, 3 p. in-8° on three separate leaves, in black ink
« I never lie in my works. I say what I see, I simply put it into words, and I leave it to the moralists to draw the lesson »
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