Null VIVIEN Renée (Pauline Tarn, known as) [London, 1877 - Paris, 1909], English…

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VIVIEN Renée (Pauline Tarn, known as) [London, 1877 - Paris, 1909], English woman of letters of French expression. Autograph poem. "For the little faun". "I will hide my flute. I listen to myself with burning shivers, I the small faun with the fierce glance. The soul of the forests lives between my teeth And the God of rhythm lives in my mouth. In this wood, far from the prowling aegipans my heart is sweeter than an open rose, the rays, full of happy smells, dance to the fresh sound of my green flute. [] For I have the modesty of my sacred art, And to honor the haughty muse I will seek the shade and hide My vibrating brushes in the hollow of an oak tree." [] "I will keep silent my pious and loyal song to the lovers of the evening, to the seekers of P, only the evening wind will learn my evil, and the others alone will learn my joy."

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VIVIEN Renée (Pauline Tarn, known as) [London, 1877 - Paris, 1909], English woman of letters of French expression. Autograph poem. "For the little faun". "I will hide my flute. I listen to myself with burning shivers, I the small faun with the fierce glance. The soul of the forests lives between my teeth And the God of rhythm lives in my mouth. In this wood, far from the prowling aegipans my heart is sweeter than an open rose, the rays, full of happy smells, dance to the fresh sound of my green flute. [] For I have the modesty of my sacred art, And to honor the haughty muse I will seek the shade and hide My vibrating brushes in the hollow of an oak tree." [] "I will keep silent my pious and loyal song to the lovers of the evening, to the seekers of P, only the evening wind will learn my evil, and the others alone will learn my joy."

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VIVIEN Renée (Pauline Tarn, dite) [London, 1877 - Paris, 1909], French-speaking English writer. Set of 3 autograph letters signed, addressed to Kérimé: - January 23, 1906]; 1 page in-8°. "I am leaving on the 27th. Nothing has changed. I've suffered too much away from you. Through time - obstacles - humans - the world - I love you." - 1905; 4 pages in-8°. "My love, my Love, how beautiful your inscriptions are! And how adorably beautiful, this Persian writing box, which contains such charming nibs from over there! You have poetized this exquisite thing even more by the words you have so gracefully attached to the wonderful shipment. And, with all my soul, I thank you. Tomorrow evening, my Douche, I leave for Nice with my sister. I'm only staying a few days. I can't tell you with what loving intensity I evoke you, with what almost terrible fervor I adore you." - 1906]; 6 pages in-8°. "Dear naughty girl, I'm going to scold you. Yes, for the first time since I've loved you, I'm going to scold you. You torture yourself as if for the pleasure of torturing yourself; you inflict useless suffering on yourself and it is this, above all, that distresses me - for I love you with a narrow tenderness - at the same time as with an imperious passion. I've been frank, perhaps too frank, with you. Ever since our first letters, you knew that I wasn't free, that a woman was ruling my life like a despot. You know how careful I must be with her. As long as I haven't broken up with her, I'm forced to be infinitely gentle and careful with her. And if, to calm her down, to keep the necessary peace, I'm obliged to resort to the formulas of the old passion, the phrases of yesteryear, almost forgotten - would you dare blame me, you who are not free? We're both slaves, you, the slave of heredity, of entourage, I, the slave of habit - and both equally subject to a higher fatality."

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

VIVIEN Renée (Pauline Tarn, dite) [London, 1877 - Paris, 1909], French-speaking English writer. Letter signed Renée Vivien, revealing her real name to Kérimé. - 1905]; 12 pages in-8°. "At last I can tell you how much your gentle solicitude has touched me. You are exquisite beyond imagination. But I must scold you with infinite tenderness. How could you not have guessed that only illness could prevent me from writing to you, from replying to you? Eva has been a devoted nurse, so devoted that not once have I been able to deceive her vigilance in order to reassure you [...] Ah, what an ugly, sad thing illness is! [...] I was out of the world, and then I had three relapses. [...] I still feel weak, but my strength will return. My dearest, I can no longer live without clasping you in my fervent arms, without knowing your gaze and your sweet kiss. An irresistible force pulls me towards you. I'll come and see you this summer, in the first days of August. This is not a real promise: I'm sure I'll come. [...] To see you... to embrace you in a loving hug, to love you closely and give you the deep kiss I've been dreaming of for so long... it seems to me I'm going to die of this happiness...".

Estim. 700 - 900 EUR

VIVIEN Renée (Pauline Tarn, dite) [London, 1877 - Paris, 1909], French-speaking English writer. Set of 14 autograph letters signed, addressed to Kérimé. [From 1906 to 1908]; in-8° format. The 1906 and 1907 letters are all similar in content: Renée Vivien poetically declares her love for Kérimé. She evokes distant memories of happy times spent together. In her dreams, all is sweetness and voluptuousness. The pretty Oriental princess is too far away. She can't visit her as she'd like. But she reproaches him for his long silences, with a touch of jealousy. The love she dreamed of for two years came to an end at the end of 1907. She took on a new friend. In 1908 (the last two letters), she attempted to end her life at her Paris home. After this failed attempt, she died on November 18, 1909, in a state of physical and moral decline, at the age of 32.

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