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Lot n° 1308

CADOU, René Guy.

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La Vie rêvée. Marseille, Robert Laffont, [1944]. In-16 [158 x 109] of 235 pp, (1) f. : dark blue jansenist chagrin, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept, case (Montecot). First edition of this collection of poems. Copy on vellum paper. Copy offered by Claude Oterelo to Pierre Bergé, in memory of François Mitterrand who had the same interest for the work of the poet René Guy Cadou (1920-1951). An original photograph in colors representing François Mitterrand and Pierre Bergé sitting on a bench at the castle of Cormatin in 1988, an autograph letter from Hélène Cadou - wife of the author, to whom the collection is dedicated - on the death of the president, and the leaflet distributed to the relatives of François Mitterrand during his funeral in Jarnac on January 11, 1996. Freckles to the cover. Browned leaves.