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Lot 68 - Yvette GUILBERT. Set of 9 autograph letters signed "Yvette" or "Yvette Guilbert". Four are addressed to her friend the writer Charles Morice, two on the letterhead of 26 bd Berthier, one from the Hôtel Bristol in Vienne, in which she talks about the joint organization of conferences for which she has ordered "a pulpit". "As for preachers (whom I wish to name: "Les Conseillers du cœur"), they will have a large place in my programs. I want them to be philosophically interesting, pleasantly serious, pleasantly tender, in short, a rosary of all kinds! And then I have an idea of 'public confessions' that I'll tell you about" "Our concerts in Budapest as here were real sumptuosities...and what understanding of the serious things said Rasoir in Paris...ah! what comfort". The last letter is on the letterhead of the Grand Hotel in Marienbad. A signed autograph letter is addressed to Laurent Tailhade in March 1868, with stamped envelope. "Ah! si vous vouliez rimer une belle satire sur la Veulerie moderne...comme je la dirais avec amour! - But there you are, you don't want to! And yet all the literary people tell me to turn to you to inaugurate the new era of song. Ah, if you wanted! what great popular successes we'd both have! Another, on the letterhead of the Velpau Nursing Home, dated February 28, 1915, informs us that she had fallen seriously ill and undergone a serious operation. And three other letters, including two addressed to a friend, one dated October 14, 1898. Together, these letters comprise 16 in-8 pages and one in-4 page, all written in brown ink.

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Lot 73 - Georges LORIN - [Autographs - Correspondence] (Auxerre, April 7, 1850 - Paris, April 9, 1927), versatile artist, painter, sculptor, illustrator, caricaturist, musician and "Montmartre" poet. Important correspondence with his great friend Jules Lévy, famous publisher and writer. In 1878, Georges Lorin and poet Émile Goudeau founded the famous Hydropathes group, a literary club parodying bourgeois salons. It was there that they became friends, and Jules Lévy joined the club six months after its foundation. Through this impressive correspondence, we discover the artist's multiple personalities, his friends such as Maurice Rollinat, to whom he dedicated several poems and whose bust he made. In 1882, he mentions the Rollinat trial: "You know that Rollinat is suing his music publisher Hartmann. To avoid any surprises, we must make sure that Hartmann has not published anything after the bailiff's summons". As well as his enmities, notably with journalist and poet Félicien Champsaur: "I'm sorry to tell you that I don't want to be complicit in any current collaboration with Champsaur. He doesn't shy away from certain points of view. I'm not bad with him (...) but his processes are sometimes too unashamed, and his name next to mine in an artistic work can only compromise me." In his correspondence, he cites some of his works, and his relationships with other publishers: "Ollendorff only gave me 15 Gens [rhymed fantasy, published by Ollendorff in 1882]. I need 15 more. Take them from him in one or two copies, without revealing their destination. It will have a small effect, and it will cost me very little, since I'll get my royalties back... Promise me you won't show this letter to anyone, not even to yourself. Destroy it. "I paint naked women in mountains lit by setting suns. It's amazing (my words). Maybe it'll make me famous. Some of his letters are signed "Cabriol", the pseudonym used for his illustrations in Les Hydropathes. The correspondence comprises 38 letters of all sizes, written in brown ink, sometimes on Lithographie Artistique Vallet, Minot et Cie letterhead, all addressed to Jules Lévy, nicknamed "Mon p'tit Jules", "Mon cher Vieux", "Mon cher ami", "Mon cher Lévy". Also included are 2 autograph letters signed "Bibi-Lolo" and embellished with a small drawing, and 4 autograph pieces in verse signed and one unsigned but illustrated piece of 4 lines, as well as the typed text of his poem "Le Marché aux Fleurs", hand-dedicated to the writer Fernand Icres (3 pages in-4). Finally, a posthumous file is attached to the artist, consisting of a typed text in his honor by writer Myriam Aghion (3 pages in-4, from 1929), a letter from administrator Morael informing of the unsealing of Georges Lorin's home, dated October 4, 1927, two newspaper articles and an anonymous typed text: "April 14, 1927 / I've been missing for three days in l'Infini / Don't invite me to dinner again, I'll be too late... / Don't miss me, I was very tired... / Cheers to my total rest and to your prolonged health / Please accept my wishes for a very late Eternity / Ex - Georges Lorin / rue de Nulle part, Zéro-Ville".

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 80 - SAVARY - [Love correspondence] Very important correspondence between Marie René Napoléon Savary, 2nd Duc de Rovigo (1813-1872), military officer and later literary and political journalist, notably for Le Figaro, and two of his mistresses Stéphanie de Nicolaÿ, Comtesse da Porto (1815-1886), and Marie Pauline de Meneval (1810-1889), daughter of Baron d'Empire Meneval, collaborator of Napoleon I, married to Gaetan Murat (son of King Murat's brother). This correspondence spans the years 1846 to 1850, and includes over 450 letters, some with the letter-writers' crowned numerals, some folded with wax-sealed envelopes, and some, for lack of space, with writing superimposed in a grid pattern. The first correspondence with Stéphanie de Nicolaÿ (who never signed her letters) comprises 117 autograph letters from her and 137 autograph letters, most of them signed, from René de Savary. It shows the latter's attachment to the woman he often referred to as "chère aimée petite femme" ("dear beloved little woman"). These are letters of despair, sometimes bordering on suicide, in which he laments his exile, the lack of response, and his jealousy. Stéphanie de Nicolaÿ is married and very cautious in her writing, using many subterfuges to correspond, involving various people. Together they had an illegitimate son, "Petit René". There are also two autograph letters signed by Savary, one of which is dated April 1847, veritable declarations of marriage. This almost daily correspondence shows the evolving relationship between the lovers, and their interest in their child. The second part consists mainly of 195 autograph letters, rarely signed, from Marie de Meneval to her lover René de Savary, between 1848 and 1850. They reveal her very jealous, impetuous, demanding and direct character. She complains about René's short letters, his numerous unkept appointments, etc. We learn of Savary's duel with Emile de Girardin, a dueling businessman, over an article, and of her quarrels with her brother Napoléon. There are also some twenty autographed documents signed by members of the respective families. This impressive correspondence bears witness to René de Savary's tumultuous life and contemporary political events.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR