COLETTE (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, known as)... Lot 38

COLETTE (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, known as) [Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, 1873 - Paris, 1954], French novelist. Autograph manuscript signed " L'Opinion d'une femme - Cinéma ". 12 pages in-4° abundantly corrected a few effrangées pages. "No car was parked at the door of the Galliera Museum last Thursday, so we could believe that the room reserved for "Art in French Cinema" would be empty. On the contrary, it was pushing back beyond its doors a mute public, mixed with children and teenagers. This beautiful and modest audience, patiently coming under the rain of thunder, by slow and inconvenient means of transport, now squeezed on benches in a heated room temporarily stretched with black curtains, found its just reward "...