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730 - ADAM, Juliette: 5 autograph letters and 1 autograph postcard, all signed; 3 addressed “Dear Madame” and then “dear friend” [Mrs. Bérardi, née Claire Piérard], and 2 addressed “My dear friend” [Léon Bérardi]. Paris, Villa Bruyère in Golfe-Juan (Alpes-Maritimes), Château de Saint-Estève near Cavaillon, Gardanne (Bouches-du-Rhône) 1881–1894, 1 to 2 pp., in-12 or in-18 format, laid paper, including 2 mourning cards with different monograms, 1 letterhead from “La Nouvelle Revue,” 1 with a “Juliette” dry stamp (slight creases from mailing). Messages of sympathy, including 2 letters of condolence (July 13, 1882, and a postcard dated October 21, 1894), thanks to Claire Bérardi for “sending the wild boar that delighted my friends [including Girardin], for Badin [Adolphe Badin, her biographer] had it butchered and distributed it, like the clever secretary he was [...]” (Golfe-Juan, n.d.), a note to Léon suggesting the publication of Claude Vignon’s “Révoltée!” in “L’Indépendance belge.”

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€200 - 300

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30%

ADAM, Juliette: 5 autograph letters and 1 autograph postcard, all signed; 3 addressed “Dear Madame” and then “dear friend” [Mrs. Bérardi, née Claire Piérard], and 2 addressed “My dear friend” [Léon Bérardi]. Paris, Villa Bruyère in Golfe-Juan (Alpes-Maritimes), Château de Saint-Estève near Cavaillon, Gardanne (Bouches-du-Rhône) 1881–1894, 1 to 2 pp., in-12 or in-18 format, laid paper, including 2 mourning cards with different monograms, 1 letterhead from “La Nouvelle Revue,” 1 with a “Juliette” dry stamp (slight creases from mailing). Messages of sympathy, including 2 letters of condolence (July 13, 1882, and a postcard dated October 21, 1894), thanks to Claire Bérardi for “sending the wild boar that delighted my friends [including Girardin], for Badin [Adolphe Badin, her biographer] had it butchered and distributed it, like the clever secretary he was [...]” (Golfe-Juan, n.d.), a note to Léon suggesting the publication of Claude Vignon’s “Révoltée!” in “L’Indépendance belge.”

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Auction details

Old and rare books, literature, autographs, archives
Thursday, December 3
01:00 PM
19/2 Rue aux Laines
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

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Arenberg Auctions +3225441055 info@arenbergauctions.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 49,000 lots published

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