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49 - MERMOZ, Jean
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MERMOZ, Jean Autograph manuscript, *L’Écho du Lycée*, [Aurillac], February 3, 1917; 3 pages of a small in-4 double-leaf sheet in violet ink (small tear at the fold). An amusing draft of a high school newspaper. Handwritten in violet ink in two columns, it includes a poem titled “Vengeance!”, signed “Jehan de Valbery”; an anecdote about a former high school teacher, “Father Badinet,” signed “K. Pouth”; and “Impressions of a Freshman on His Arrival at the Aurillac High School,” signed “K. Kaowelt.” The third page remains blank. On the fourth page are five humorous pencil drawings (one traced in ink) with titles and captions in ink: “The Benefits of Anastasia,” “Court-Martial,” “A Guy Who Doesn’t Worry,” “The Paper Crisis,” “Spelling Mistakes”; plus a whimsical advertisement for “Galloping Ointment […] for the Retirement of the Prussian Guard,” signed “K. Pouth.” Enclosed is the registration form for student Mermoz on the Honor Roll of the Lycée d’Aurillac for the months of November–December 1914. Provenance: - Jean Mermoz (1901–1936); - Gabrielle Gillet-Mermoz (1880–1955); - Then passed down within the family
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