COLETTE SIDONIE-GABRIELLE (1873-1954)

Colette speaks to Americans, letters, manuscripts and typescripts signed circa 1944; 30 pages in-4. - Autograph letter signed in blue ink on blue paper, 4 pages in-4, envelope preserved to the famous actress and great friend of Colette Marguerite MORENO relating to the last day of the Occupation. - Autograph letter signed to Mr. Jean FOREST "In remembrance of the lady of two fifteen in the morning who is trying to teach French to America in fifteen minutes." - Two-page manuscript in blue ink under a notebook with a cover illustrated by Von Dongen, filled with autograph signatures. - Tapuscript of 6 pages in-4, Colette speaks to Americans with autograph correction. - Tapuscript of 6 pages signed relating to her trip to America. - Tapuscript of 6 pages in-4 in ink signed "Friends of America." - Tapuscript of 5 pages in-4 signed Colette speaks to the Americans. [...] "For the past month, I have been soliciting your attention, dear Americans, I am borrowing the young and pretty voice of Drue Leyton. She advises me to say a few words in your language but given my accent in English, perhaps because of my accent, you are unaware that I have spoken English... I would like to bring your interest back to our France, a France that seems so small on the world map, but of which you know well that it is great, powerful and resolved to a heroic wisdom. The best and the worst have been said about us French people all over the world. It is true, or at least it was true in times of peace. But we are no longer in peacetime, and we all have the pride to show our courage, our will to win [...]"