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HUGO (Victor). Autograph poetic notes. 39 verses with a few variants juxtaposed, on 2 pp. on the rectos of 2 large folios mounted on tabs in a large folio volume with smooth muted garnet morocco spine and garnet morocco title-piece on the first cover (antique binding). Set of 12 poetic essays of one to 11 lines each, probably preparatory to his collection L'Âne, published in 1878. The speaker unfurls an impressive erudition, which he disparages: " ... I care little for Suidas, Strabo, Or Acasilaüs commented by Eusebius, That Jacob disappears at the hour when Thebes rises, And Alexander is born when Ephesus dies, I care not. I hear little of the clamor That, haggard, burning-eyed, staggering-legged, In Crete, deep in the woods, grow the Corybantes; I pay little heed When Moses, who kills a little too much, and lies, Emerges from the brazen clutches of the tenacious Pharaoh, Or when Deucalion descends from Mount Parnassus." With a charge against Figaro editor Francis Magnard: "... That Noah's Ark was plagued by vermin / And that we were stung by Francis-Magnards... / That's not what I'm passionate about...". Back in 1869, he wrote to his friend Auguste Vacquerie: "Do you know a bug called Francis Magnard? This bug stinks and stings I don't know where. Provenance: Simone de Caillavet (bookplate). ONE OF MARCEL PROUST'S MODELS FOR THE CHARACTER MADEMOISELLE DE SAINT-LOUP DANS LA RECHERCHE, LA FEMME DE LETTRES SIMONE DE CAILLAVET (1894-1968) was the daughter of writer Gaston Arman de Caillavet (who collaborated with Robert de Flers, among others) and the granddaughter of Léontine Arman de Caillavet, muse and mistress of Anatole France. After a first marriage in 1920 to the wealthy Romanian diplomat Georges Stoïcescu, Simone de Caillavet married the writer André Maurois in 1926.
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HUGO (Victor). Autograph poetic notes. 39 verses with a few variants juxtaposed, on 2 pp. on the rectos of 2 large folios mounted on tabs in a large folio volume with smooth muted garnet morocco spine and garnet morocco title-piece on the first cover (antique binding). Set of 12 poetic essays of one to 11 lines each, probably preparatory to his collection L'Âne, published in 1878. The speaker unfurls an impressive erudition, which he disparages: " ... I care little for Suidas, Strabo, Or Acasilaüs commented by Eusebius, That Jacob disappears at the hour when Thebes rises, And Alexander is born when Ephesus dies, I care not. I hear little of the clamor That, haggard, burning-eyed, staggering-legged, In Crete, deep in the woods, grow the Corybantes; I pay little heed When Moses, who kills a little too much, and lies, Emerges from the brazen clutches of the tenacious Pharaoh, Or when Deucalion descends from Mount Parnassus." With a charge against Figaro editor Francis Magnard: "... That Noah's Ark was plagued by vermin / And that we were stung by Francis-Magnards... / That's not what I'm passionate about...". Back in 1869, he wrote to his friend Auguste Vacquerie: "Do you know a bug called Francis Magnard? This bug stinks and stings I don't know where. Provenance: Simone de Caillavet (bookplate). ONE OF MARCEL PROUST'S MODELS FOR THE CHARACTER MADEMOISELLE DE SAINT-LOUP DANS LA RECHERCHE, LA FEMME DE LETTRES SIMONE DE CAILLAVET (1894-1968) was the daughter of writer Gaston Arman de Caillavet (who collaborated with Robert de Flers, among others) and the granddaughter of Léontine Arman de Caillavet, muse and mistress of Anatole France. After a first marriage in 1920 to the wealthy Romanian diplomat Georges Stoïcescu, Simone de Caillavet married the writer André Maurois in 1926.
