Null HUGO. Victor.
L'ane.
Paris, France. Calmann Lévy. 1880. 1 volume in-8, …

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HUGO. Victor. L'ane. Paris, France. Calmann Lévy. 1880. 1 volume in-8, blue half-chagrin, spine slightly faded, hinges rubbed. First edition, with a signed autograph letter from the author: "Hommage à Madame Camille Sée. Victor Hugo".

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HUGO. Victor. L'ane. Paris, France. Calmann Lévy. 1880. 1 volume in-8, blue half-chagrin, spine slightly faded, hinges rubbed. First edition, with a signed autograph letter from the author: "Hommage à Madame Camille Sée. Victor Hugo".

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SAUMUR (49) CROIX ROUGE - 1er Guerre Mondiale - UNION DES FEMMES DE FRANCE - médaille commémorative 1ère Année de Service de l'Hôpital Auxiliaire numéro 105 - vue de face du collège de jeunes filles de la rue Victor Hugo (220 lits) - à l'exergue blason couronné de Saumur posé sur une palme d'olivier - revers : U.F.F. Hôpital 105 Saumur "Aout 1914 - Aout 1915" - ronde 31,5 mm - 15,15 gr - ? argenté - très rare médaille

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PABLO PICASSO (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973). "Visage larvé". From the collection "Gold Medallion".1967. Gold 23 kts, 6/20. Edition limited to 20 copies. Publisher Pierre Hugo. Signature of the artist and engraved numbers on the back. In its original wooden case. Measurements: 5 cm. diameter (medallion); 13 x 13 x 3 cm. (box). Each of the fifteen pendant medallions of the "Gold Medallion" series bears the signature of the artist and the reference and edition numbers of François Hugo. Conceived in 1956 and produced after 1967, in a numbered edition of 20 copies, plus 2 artist's and 2 author's copies. Picasso's fascination with exploring new media leads us to his representation of a favorite motif: a fish resting inside another fish. The theme appears in his ceramic works, such as "Grand Poisson (Big Fish), 1956," but it is in gold that the delicacy and intricacy of the two fish come to life. The line is beautiful and the whimsy is beautifully expressed in this rare medium. In the 1950s and 1960s, Picasso commissioned Francois Victor-Hugo, one of the most accomplished goldsmiths working in France at the time, to execute a series of gold and silver fountains, plates and medallions from original models he had designed. These fountains and medallions were individually selected, designed, viewed, approved and appreciated by Picasso during his lifetime with such fervor that, at first, he never intended to sell them for profit. Thus, at first, their existence was shrouded in secrecy. Picasso refused to lend any of them to galleries and museums and hid them from visitors to his home, opting instead to keep them as a private treasure. However, Picasso yielded to Hugo's insistence and, in 1967, authorized him to make a small "numbered edition" of each for sale. They were not sold publicly, but sent to their respective buyers, so they attracted hardly any publicity, which made them quite rare. Working together for the next ten years, Picasso and Hugo created nineteen gold medallions and in each series twenty complete series were made plus two reserved for the artist, each series consisting of nineteen gold medallions.

Starting price 130 EUR

Victor HUGO (1802-1885) - Curious note received by Victor Hugo, 2 p small in-8, it is anonymous, but must have been appended to an identified letter, since Victor Hugo affixed a large "r" for "replied", it concerns Nicolas GRETCH (1787-1867), editor and owner of "l'Abeille du Nord", a widely read St. Petersburg French-language newspaper, spokesman for the tsarist regime, reactionary, propagandist and opposed to liberal ideas, founded in the 1820s, became a daily in the 1830s, highly influential and of course a manipulator of opinion among the Russian petty nobility and bourgeoisie; Gretch was pinned down by the Marquis de Custine in his report on his trip to Russia (1843), and Gretch retaliated by publishing a pamphlet against him; Gretch spent time in Western Europe (Germany, Belgium, France), but was never appreciated by intellectuals, considered a spy in the pay of Russian power: "N. Gretch - editor of L'Abeille du Nord, an organ of the Russian police, a spy known to the public, in one of the last issues of his newspaper - that he defended censorship even in France, and that 20 years ago, he defended it at a dinner at Salvandi's [n.b.: Narcisse-Achille Salvandy, the man who welcomed Hugo to the Académie française]. He adds that Victor Hugo told him that he agreed with him, and that after this conversation he not only got to know him, but maintained a friendly relationship with him. 12 years ago, Gretch was in Paris, the Russians who were there lithographed visiting cards "N. Gretch Premier Mouchard de S.M. l'Empereur Nicolas" and sent them to all Gretch's friends on New Year's Day. Gretch wanted to sue, accusing the Marquis de Custine - who replied in a newspaper "[N.B. : this note can be dated to around 1860 (Gretch's pamphlet against Custine was published in 1845, so his trip to Paris with the calling-card episode may have been in 1848); Victor Hugo is in exile in Guernsey and has secured his reputation not only in literary circles, but above all in liberal ones; he is beginning to be widely read by Russian intellectuals, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are enthusiastic about his novels, but "Notre Dame de Paris" remains banned by the censors - Gretch's article aims not only to orient Russian opinion towards Hugo, but also to destabilize him in Europe by passing him off as a reactionary friend of his].

Estim. 20 - 40 EUR

Set of 6 biographical works: Michel Folman, Honoré de Balzac, moine et amant. Geneva, 1959. Nathan Rybak, De vergissing van Honoré de Balzac. Amsterdam, PN van Kampen & Zoon, 1964. Publisher's full cloth, dust jacket. Martine Gärtner, Balzac et l'Allemagne. L'Harmattan, 1999. Offprint of André Lorant's article for the Année Balzacienne 1961, "La maison infortunée". Reprint of André Lorant's article for the 1962 Balzacienne year, "Diary of Madame Hanska". Edmond Biré, Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo, H de Balzac. Paris/Lyon, Emmanuel Vitte, 1907. Lot of 6 biographical works: Pierre de La Condamine, Voyageurs pour Guérande à l'heure du romantisme. Le bateau qui vire, 1984. Romain Guignard, A Issoudun avec H de Balzac (conference). Issoudun, Gaignault, 1948. Hugues Bousiges, Du nouveau sur Henry de Balzac (conference). Maison Balzac, 2017. Copy of the text with a handsome cardboard mailing from the author and a copy of a long e-mail of "gratitude and recognition". Gérard Pouchain, Balzac en Normandie. Corlet, 1997 Gonzague Saint Bris, Le bel appétit de Monsieur de Balzac. Éditions du chêne, 1999. In-4. With a mailing from the publisher, Hélène Maurice, to Hervé Yon, for Bernard Pivot's program ["Bouillon de culture"], May 7, 1999. Bulletin de la société historique et archéologique des VIIIe et XVIIe arrondissement de Paris, July-December 1909. Contains the article "Balzac, au VIIIe arrondissement" by Paul Jarry. Lot of 11 books: Mauriac, Mes grands hommes. Monaco, ed. du Rocher, 1949. EO [Collectif], Pour Balzac et pour les livres. Klincksdieck, 2000. Hommage à Roger Pierrot. Dumesnil, L'âme du médecin. Plon, Présences, 1937. William Hobart Royce Balzac Immortal. Booklet printed by the author, on fine paper, Noel 1926. Balzac et Vendôme, n°1 des Cahiers du Porc-épic Blaisois, 1965, 200 copies (n°67). Herbert J Hunt, Balzac and lay Elleborough. Photocopy from French studies, July 1958. Leonid Grossman, Balzac in Russia. Photocopy from the Zeluck edition, 1946. Santiago Gastaldi, Vida e Obra de Balzac. Photocopy of the Sao Paulo, Guaira edition, 1940. Balzac and Tours. Tours, Lycée Balzac, 1982. Tapuscrit de 50p préparé par les élévèdes de 1ere, 2de et 3e sous la direction de Lucette Besson, avec une couverture illustrée. In hardback. Meyer-Petit & Klimoff, Balzac dans l'Empire russe - de la Russie à l'Ukraine. Paris-Musée - des Cendres, 1993. Bouvier & Maynial, De quoi vivait Balzac. Paris, Deux rives, 1949. Sent by the authors to the writer Gilbert Sigaux.

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