ANOUILH Jean (1910-1987) Lot n° 11

Autograph manuscript signed on COLETTE [January 1953], 3 pages in-4 with corrections, in blue ink on paper (traces of folds). HOMMAGE A COLETTE for his 80th birthday, for Le Figaro Littéraire of January 24, 1953. "Madame Colette, since we are picking you a big bouquet to celebrate your birthday, I would not want for anything in the world not to put my little flower in it. Others will bring you, in one of those elegant faux-crystal boxes that men have learned to make, the disquieting and expensive orchid [...], the perfect rose, round, fragrant, fleshy, dressed in Dior. I have a taste for girls and wilder flowers, and I sometimes imagine that, despite your voluptuous science, you have a taste for them too [...]....] I only want to tell you that over the years - one life, one second - that have separated us and that should force me to respect you, if I have always been disrespectfully in love with you, it is because you are not a suitable woman at all, Madame Colette - it is because you are the proud shamelessness, the wise pleasure, the hard intelligence, the insolent freedom: the very type of girl who loses the most sacred institutions and families; the one whom the good people who celebrate you forbid their son to marry - a real thug [...]...]». An autograph letter signed and sent to Maurice Noël is enclosed, asking him to forward the manuscript to Colette in case it is not published (1 page in-4, blue ink on paper).