Paul MARIÉTON (1862-1911), Provençal writer and member of the Félibrige. Set of 6 autograph letters and 4 autograph visiting cards, all signed and addressed to his friend M. Vierge, in the 1900s. The letters form 16 in-8 sheets, all written in black ink. "I cannot tell you, my dear friend, how much your last two articles have touched me. More than once I have suffered for having taken this mask for my basic nature... Yet the two adjectives you mention are both part and parcel of my Lugdunian being. - Rhône temperament, Saône soul (dare I say it!) - a complex individual, like all Lyonnais-"..."

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