Paul MEURICE (1818-1905, novelist and playwright,... Lot 20

Paul MEURICE (1818-1905, novelist and playwright, he was the faithful friend of Victor Hugo, of whom he will be the executor of his will) / Autograph manuscript signed "Paul M", from his youth, of a poem with erasures and corrections, 2 p small in-8, written on a bill with the letterhead of the goldsmith Mahler, dated August 2, 1839: This poem is dedicated to Palmyre Granger (1819-1879, daughter of the painter Jean-Pierre Granger, herself a painter, but above all a pianist, she will give lessons to Camille Saint-Saëns, and a singer, she will be an intellectual friend of Baudelaire) - Paul Meurice is 21 years old, he has already known Victor Hugo for 3 years, introduced by his friend Auguste Vacquerie, and is fascinated by the poetic and romantic aura of this new friend - It is therefore natural to find in these verses all the romantic "standards" - Paul Meurice and Palmyre Granger will get married in 1843, with Ingres, Dumas Père and Hugo as witnesses! - Concerning the paper used by Meurice, it is an invoice of François-Salomon Mahler, goldsmith, his brother-in-law)