Autograph letter signed « Gus Flaubert » to Jules Sandeau
Croisset, 26 January [1862], 2 p. in-8 on blue laid paper
« Yesterday I received a letter from Baudelaire inviting me to ask for your voice for his candidacy to the Academy »
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 « Votre Gve Flaubert » to Emile Zola
[Paris, 17 December 1874], 1 p. in-8°
« Tourgueneff, de Goncourt & Daudet will be at my place on Sunday »
Two autograph letters signed « Gve Flaubert » to Émile Zola
[Croisset, 2th May and 3rd June 1874], 5 pp. in-8°
« Father Faujas is sinister and great – a true director! How well he manipulates the woman, how skillfully he seizes her, taking her by charity, then brutalizing her! »
Autograph letter signed « Votre vieux Gve Flaubert » to Emile Zola
Croisset, Sunday [15 février 1880], 3 p. in-8°
« Nana turns into myth, without ceasing to be real »
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 « P Claudel » to André Ruyters
Prague, 14th July [1910], 2 p. in-8 oblong, autograph envelope attached
“These literary vampires are real criminals”
Autograph letter signed « Gve Flaubert » to Paul Meurice
N.d.n.p [Croisset, 7th February 1878], 1 page in-8 on double sheet laid paper, black ink.
« Please present my excuses to Victor Hugo…»
Autograph letter signed « Gve Flaubert » to Pauline Sandeau
[Paris], Wednesday, 3 h [20th March 1867], 1 p. in-8° on laid paper
« I have an appointment with a police commissioner, for literary information »
Autograph letter signed « Gus Flaubert » to Jules Sandeau
[Paris], Monday morning [14 December 1863], 1 p. in-8vo
« I’m not going to see you because I guess you’re in all the embarrassment of a Premiere »
Autograph letter signed « Gve Flaubert » to Paule Sandeau
Croisset près Rouen, Sunday [26th August 1860], 1 p. in-8°
« I want to see your pretty eyes, your pretty mouth & and I kiss both of your hands »
Autograph letter signed « Ton G. » to Louise Colet
[Croisset] Satursday evening [26th June 1852.], 4 pp. in-4°
« Bovary knocks me out »
Autograph letter signed « Gve Flaubert » to Jules Sandeau
[Paris, December 1863-early January 1864], 1 p. in-8° on bi-folio
« My little mom claims me »
Autograph letter signed « Gve Flaubert » to Pauline 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 letter to his mistress Louise Colet
[Rouen], Wednesday, 2 pm [2nd December 1846], 3 p. in-8°
« I’m not made for happiness, maybe not even for love »
Autograph letter signed “JKHuysmans” to a colleague
N.d [1885], Paris, 1p 1/2 in-12 on laid paper
“Readers who generally prefer Mr Ohnet’s products to the pages of Flaubert and Goncourt”
Autograph letter signed « GSand » to Gustave Flaubert
Paris, Friday [31st August 1866], 3 pages on double sheet in-8 with embossed initials
“I found Paris very small yesterday, while crossing the bridges”
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 « Emile Zola » to Gustave Flaubert
Médan, 30th November [18]78, 4 pages in-8 on double sheet, black ink on laid paper
“My ambition is to show the whore’s daily life”