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live November 27 | 02:00 PM
Brissonneau

2 - Georges COURTELINE.

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Estimation

€200 - 300

Sale fees

28.8%

Georges COURTELINE. Three manuscripts, in a hardcover folio folder and slipcase. [Roland Dorgelès succeeded Courteline at the Académie Goncourt.] Autograph manuscript (5 folio pages, frayed edges). Amusing recollections of his life as a civil servant at the Directorate of Religious Affairs (the end is missing). Autograph manuscript [Le Drame de l’Avenue d’Antin] (5 oblong pages, in-8), the beginning (Scenes 1 and 2) of this one-act play; along with a copyist’s manuscript of the complete play (quarto notebook, title page and 14 folios), the first folios of which have been torn out and replaced by the new autograph version. Copyist’s manuscript (H. Compère Copy Agency) with autograph corrections and additions (in-4 notebook of 39 pages), of a talk on his literary beginnings, mentioning in particular Th. de Banville and Paul Arène, the Chat-Noir with Mac-Nab and Caran d’Ache, etc.; on the covers, autograph calculations.

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Auction details

Antique and modern books, antique and modern paintings, archaeology, weapons, the Far East, jewelry, silverware, furniture, and objets d’art
Friday, November 27
02:00 PM
Hôtel Drouot
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Brissonneau +33 1 42 46 00 07 brissonneau@wanadoo.fr
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 30,000 lots published

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