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LITERATURE XXe. - Set of 11 handwritten items. -...

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LITERATURE XXe. - Set of 11 handwritten items. - BLOY (Léon). LAS, dated September 2, 1898, addressed to journalist Georges Rémond, 2 pages in-12 and 3 lines. "It's a time of great and triumphant muflerie (....) We have given up both the Fontenay-aux-Roses house, calculation done, it was ten times too heavy (...). The push is going to be so strong that the famous revision will be completely unavoidable. Then Dreyfus will be recalled and there will be a universal upheaval when he arrives (...)." - BARRÈS (Maurice). LAS, addressed to Pierre Louÿs, dated May 13, 1896, 2 pages in-12, with envelope, he congratulates him on his book and invites him to "naively enjoy this young glory". -JOUHANDEAU (Marcel) LAS, addressed to A. Fraigneau, dated July 8, 1947, 1 page in-8 with envelope. He thanks him for his book. - MARITAIN (Jacques). LAS, dated Meudon, October 27, 1926, 1 page in-8: "Nous serons heureux de publier dans les chroniques du Roseaux d'or vos pages sur l'offense". - ORMESSON (Jean d'). 2 LAS, dated 1969 and 1971, 2 and 4 pages in-4, with envelopes, addressed to Madame G. Guitard-Auviste. He thanks her for her letters and praise. - MAURIAC (François). LAS, addressed to journalist Luc Estang, 2 pages in-12, with envelope, dated November 12, 1949. "I have finished 'Les Stigmates'. I read it with deep interest and a certain discomfort due to the technique to which your generation resorts and which creates confusion...". - MAURIAC (François). LAS, addressed to his "Petit Jacques", dated March 6, 1937, 2 pages in-4. Your life is strange and complicated (...). I love you as you are (...). You always remind me of Barrès's little phrase in his article on Les Mains Jointes, 'n'empêche que ces excès de sensibilité font frémir' (...)." - GUITTON (Jean). LAS, undated, 1 page in-12. Letter of congratulations on reading his interlocutor's text, which he considers "a crown, a diadem, a dream, a legend...". - MAURRAS (Charles) LAS, dated September 1888, addressed to lawyer Guillibert, Aix-en-Provence, 3 pages in-8 with envelope. Youthful letter to a member of the Félibrige to whom he sends five issues of the Observateur français, containing his reports on the Fêtes cigalières. - MISTRAL (Frédéric). Greeting postcard a. s. for 1913, to the Marquis d'Eguilles. - Includes a dummy drawing signed by Cocteau on a torn endpaper. Expert : Ségolène Beauchamp