1111 - Courteline, Georges (i.e. G.-V. Moineaux).

Courteline, Georges (i.e. G.-V. Moineaux). Boubouroche. (Illustrated original manuscript). Paris, Flammarion n.d. (c. 1930). Gr.8° (27 x 21 cm.). Illustrated cover on transparent film, background pages in orange and yellow, 19 pages with partly full-page illustrations in black ink. Illustrations in black ink and text in pencil. Excellently executed manuscript for the well-known Paris publisher. - In addition to the cover and title design, there are only pages with the illustrations. -Boubouroche" premiered on April 27, 1893 at the Théâtre Libre and was performed again at the Comédie Francaise in 1910. - The text had already appeared in the magazine "Echo de Paris" in June 1882. - The important French writer and playwright Georges Courteline (1858-1929) was the son of the writer Jules Moinaux. In his satires, he caricatured the military and the civil service by depicting the everyday absurdities of these worlds. Courteline was admitted to the French Legion of Honor in 1899 and to the Académie Goncourt in 1926 and was awarded the Académie française prize. R