Null Marcel PROUST (1871-1922) Writer.

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Marcel PROUST (1871-1922) Writer. Autograph letter signed addressed at the end of June 1919 to Madame Catusse, wife of the prefect Anatole Catusse who was a great friend of his mother before becoming the confidant and adviser of the writer for the problems of everyday life, as in this letter where he talks about the moving of his apartment on the boulevard Haussmann and the sale of a certain number of family furniture that surrounded it, in order to move to the rue Laurent-Pichat, which he will also leave a few months later. 8 pages in-8 on two double sheets of watermarked paper "Conqueror London".

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Marcel PROUST (1871-1922) Writer. Autograph letter signed addressed at the end of June 1919 to Madame Catusse, wife of the prefect Anatole Catusse who was a great friend of his mother before becoming the confidant and adviser of the writer for the problems of everyday life, as in this letter where he talks about the moving of his apartment on the boulevard Haussmann and the sale of a certain number of family furniture that surrounded it, in order to move to the rue Laurent-Pichat, which he will also leave a few months later. 8 pages in-8 on two double sheets of watermarked paper "Conqueror London".

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LOUYS Pierre (Pierre Louis, dit) [Gand, 1870 - Paris, 1925], French writer. Set of 16 autograph letters signed by Pierre LOUYS, addressed to Paul Robert between 1901 and 1904.

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PROUST Marcel [Paris, 1871 - id., 1922], French writer. Autograph letter signed. Undated; 2 1/2 pages in-8°. "Thank you a thousand times over for your note in Gil Blas. It gave me great pleasure and I'm sure Grasset will be delighted. I'm sending you Les Plaisirs et les Jours. Following your advice [...] I spent an hour and a half explaining a thousand things to him. If you're interested, I'll send you his article, but I don't know if it will faithfully reproduce what I said. Besides, it won't appear before the end of the week, as I was only able to rewrite it yesterday.

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SACHS Maurice (Jean-Maurice Ettinghausen, dit) [Paris, 1906 - in Germany, 1945], French writer. Set of 3 signed autograph letters, one with a drawing, and 2 signed postcards, all addressed to M. André Fraigneau.

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