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Germaine INGHELBECHT née PERRIN (1892- ?) third wife of the conductor D.-E Inghelbrecht. About 120 L.A.S. "P." or "Pilon", [1922-1932], to Colette Steinlen; about 250 pages various sizes, some envelopes (some letters incomplete). Abundant correspondence with Inghelbrecht's first wife. [Germaine Perrin, nicknamed Pilon, was very close to Marguerite Steinlen, nicknamed "Biche", and to Colette Steinlen, daughter of the painter, and cousin of Marguerite. She was also the third wife of Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (they married in 1941, a year before the remarriage of Colette Steinlen, Inghel's first wife, to Roger Désormière)]. Long correspondence between two great friends, mainly about their daily life, their friendships, their loves, Inghelbrecht, Désormière, the painter Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Marguerite Steinlen, etc. "Dear Madam, I am taking advantage of my passage in front of a post office to write you a love letter... you are the most adorable friend in the world, all that I possess of more precious, of inestimable. Good night, see you tomorrow." (May 18, 1924). "Inghel is at the beach. We have had two very bad days. He reproached me for having 'changed', and for considering a future without him. He wanted, demanded, that I tell him the bottom of my thoughts. To which I answered that I indeed wished to have a free man in my life - and that I had never thought that we could remain linked eternally - hence the inner cataclysm in him - and all that follows - I am really starting, finally - to be fed up with his narrow-minded nature. It's unfortunate but true. I have a strange feeling inside me, as if I were going towards something else, towards more space - it's curious - In any case, my torture with Inghel is over" (8 August 1932). His tender relationship with Marguerite Steinlen: "In Lonay: transparent, cold, slightly agitated water [...] found the poor little heart of my lamentable doe. Alas, alas... how I pity her. I feel deep down, as strong as ever, this imperious need to have me to her. The solitude, the rest nothing is good for her, all is despair for her. What to do? If I see her too much, and with too much kindness, I hurt her. If I don't see her I hurt her too. [...]. Your father doesn't seem bad to me. (Friday, July 20). Attached is the crossed correspondence between Germaine Perrin and her father R. Perrin in Lausanne, 1927-1928.
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Germaine INGHELBECHT née PERRIN (1892- ?) third wife of the conductor D.-E Inghelbrecht. About 120 L.A.S. "P." or "Pilon", [1922-1932], to Colette Steinlen; about 250 pages various sizes, some envelopes (some letters incomplete). Abundant correspondence with Inghelbrecht's first wife. [Germaine Perrin, nicknamed Pilon, was very close to Marguerite Steinlen, nicknamed "Biche", and to Colette Steinlen, daughter of the painter, and cousin of Marguerite. She was also the third wife of Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (they married in 1941, a year before the remarriage of Colette Steinlen, Inghel's first wife, to Roger Désormière)]. Long correspondence between two great friends, mainly about their daily life, their friendships, their loves, Inghelbrecht, Désormière, the painter Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Marguerite Steinlen, etc. "Dear Madam, I am taking advantage of my passage in front of a post office to write you a love letter... you are the most adorable friend in the world, all that I possess of more precious, of inestimable. Good night, see you tomorrow." (May 18, 1924). "Inghel is at the beach. We have had two very bad days. He reproached me for having 'changed', and for considering a future without him. He wanted, demanded, that I tell him the bottom of my thoughts. To which I answered that I indeed wished to have a free man in my life - and that I had never thought that we could remain linked eternally - hence the inner cataclysm in him - and all that follows - I am really starting, finally - to be fed up with his narrow-minded nature. It's unfortunate but true. I have a strange feeling inside me, as if I were going towards something else, towards more space - it's curious - In any case, my torture with Inghel is over" (8 August 1932). His tender relationship with Marguerite Steinlen: "In Lonay: transparent, cold, slightly agitated water [...] found the poor little heart of my lamentable doe. Alas, alas... how I pity her. I feel deep down, as strong as ever, this imperious need to have me to her. The solitude, the rest nothing is good for her, all is despair for her. What to do? If I see her too much, and with too much kindness, I hurt her. If I don't see her I hurt her too. [...]. Your father doesn't seem bad to me. (Friday, July 20). Attached is the crossed correspondence between Germaine Perrin and her father R. Perrin in Lausanne, 1927-1928.
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