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Vermot et Associés

261 - Léonce FABRE des ESSARTS (1848–1917, occultist and Symbolist poet) / Signed autograph letter, 3 pages, in-8 format, October 4, 1913, to the poet Auguste Dorchain: “Dear great Poet and wonderful friend. But you truly overwhelm me! If only you knew how much good you do for me! You help me believe in myself—why didn’t we meet sooner! Many times I’ve thought of writing to you. I didn’t dare. It took the occasion of the Pardon [Breton festival] to make up my mind. Long live Pentyern [Celtic chieftain] and Brittany! But how admirable Dumas’s story is! This letter, which moves me thirty years after it was sent—and you, the one who delivered it! Let them say after this that there are no mysterious interventions in the affairs of this world! […]"

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€10 - 20

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Léonce FABRE des ESSARTS (1848–1917, occultist and Symbolist poet) / Signed autograph letter, 3 pages, in-8 format, October 4, 1913, to the poet Auguste Dorchain: “Dear great Poet and wonderful friend. But you truly overwhelm me! If only you knew how much good you do for me! You help me believe in myself—why didn’t we meet sooner! Many times I’ve thought of writing to you. I didn’t dare. It took the occasion of the Pardon [Breton festival] to make up my mind. Long live Pentyern [Celtic chieftain] and Brittany! But how admirable Dumas’s story is! This letter, which moves me thirty years after it was sent—and you, the one who delivered it! Let them say after this that there are no mysterious interventions in the affairs of this world! […]"

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Auction details

500 AUTOGRAPHS, starting bid of 10 euros
Tuesday, November 10
01:30 PM
5, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Vermot et Associés +33 1 71 19 42 16 info@vermotetassocies.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 220,000 lots published

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