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500 AUTOGRAPHS, starting bid of 10 euros
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Tuesday, November 10 | 01:30 PM
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Vermot et Associés
+33 1 71 19 42 16
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5, rue Drouot
75009, Paris
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Until November 10 | 03:10 PM
201 - Abel de PUJOL (1785–1861, painter) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page in-8 plus an address page, November 30, 1842, to pianist Pierre Zimmerman
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:11 PM
202 - Richard GRAUL (1862–1944, German art historian) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, large 8vo, Leipzig, June 7, 1901
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:11 PM
203 - Eugène GUILLAUME (Montbard, 1822–1905, sculptor and art critic, member of the Académie Française) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, on "Académie de France à Rome" (Villa Medici) letterhead, to Baron Enrico Guj (1841–1905, architect, President of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome) / "As Their Majesties the King and Queen of Italy are doing us the great honor of coming on Monday morning at 10 o’clock to inaugurate the exhibition of works submitted by the residents of the French Aca
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:12 PM
204 - Charles MORICE (1860–1919, poet and writer, friend of Gauguin and Verlaine) / Signed autograph letter, 3 pages, in-8, Watermael (Belgium), July 19, 1901, to the poet Ernest Jaubert
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:12 PM
205 - Jean BACH-SISLEY (known as Jeanne Sisley, Lyon, 1864–1949, writer, poet, and critic; founder of the Salon des Poètes de Lyon) / Signed autograph manuscript, 2 pages in-4, of a poem titled “Sonate au clair de lune” (Moonlight Sonata), April 1916, dedicated “To Mr. Loyonnet in memory of Beethoven” [Paul Loyonnet, 1889–1988, a pianist with a passion for Beethoven, began performing at the age of 17]
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:13 PM
206 - Marius CASADESUS (1892–1981, composer and violinist) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, in-4, Paris, April 10, 1927, to the writer Jane Catulle-Mendès
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:13 PM
207 - Benjamin VALLOTTON (1877–1962, Swiss journalist and writer, cousin of the painter Félix Vallotton) / Postcard written and signed in his own hand, from Lausanne, April 15, 1916, to the Swiss writer Julie de Mestral-Combremont; the postcard, illustrated by Charles Gogler, was sold to benefit the “Swiss Romandy Fund for Blind French Soldiers”: “I am happy that Potterat [a character—a jovial, good-natured Vaud police commissioner created by Benjamin Vallotton in one of his novels, with wh
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:14 PM
208 - Jean-François CARBONNEL (1744–1812, Colonel during the Revolution and the Empire) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, small in-4 format, Le Havre, 2 Frimaire, Year 10
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:14 PM
209 - Emmanuel BENNER (Mulhouse, 1836–1896, painter) / Autograph card, signed, 1 p., in-12, Mulhouse, November 19, 1889
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:15 PM
210 - RETHEL (08) - Chéri PAUFFIN (1801–1863, magistrate, poet, and historian) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, small quarto (tears and rough edges), Rethel, October 14, 1849, regarding his poem “Le Choléra à Rhetel”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:15 PM
211 - Antoine VECHTE (1800–1868, silversmith and jeweler) / Autograph letter, signed, 2 pages, in-8, December 16, 1849
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:16 PM
212 - Henri ROCHEFORT (1831–1913, pamphleteer and journalist) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-12, to a colleague: He forwards to him “this letter from Cluseret, who would like to correspond with you”— “Take a look and decide what you can do about it. And above all, don’t feel obligated to accept it just because.” [General Gustave Paul Cluseret (1823–1900) distinguished himself during the Paris Commune]
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:16 PM
213 - Jean RAMEAU (La Celle-Bruère, Cher, 1852–1931, poet and songwriter from the Berry region; he was a clog maker by trade) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, in-8
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:17 PM
214 - Alphonse de NEUVILLE (1835–1885, painter and illustrator) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, regarding the illustrations for “Hugues le Loup” (by Erckmann-Chatrian, serialized in 1863)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:17 PM
215 - Nina PACK (also known as Annette Ballay, 1869–?, soprano; curiously, her name is linked to that of the painter Paul Gauguin—she had adopted a mixed-race girl, Anna la Javanaise, who became Gauguin’s model and mistress) / Signed autograph letter, 4 pages, in-8 format, regarding missed rehearsals due to the poor distribution of notices / Enclosed: 2 photos on a postcard depicting her
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:18 PM
216 - Françoise d'ORLEANS (1844–1925, Duchess of Chartres) / Autograph card, signed, 2 pages in-12, bearing her initials with a crown
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:18 PM
217 - Marie MICLOS [1860–1951, pianist and composer] / Postcard written and signed in her own hand
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:19 PM
218 - JUDAICA - Bishop Joseph-Marie GRAVERAN (1793–1855, Bishop of Quimper from 1840 to 1855) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8 mounted on a tab on an album page, with the letterhead “Diocese of Quimper,” November 18, 1846, to his “dear Parish Priest”: “I authorize Mr. Balcon, your vicar, and in his absence, another priest of your choosing, to receive the abjuration of the young Jew mentioned in your letter. I thank you for the details you have provided regarding Mother J. and her condu
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:19 PM
219 - Louise SWANTON BELLOC (La Rochelle 1796–1881, a woman of letters of Irish origin, known for her translations, including Harriet Beecher Stowe’s *Uncle Tom’s Cabin* and Walter Scott’s *The Vicar of Wakefield*; she was a friend of Charles Dickens, whose works she also translated) / Autograph letter signed “Louise Sw. Belloc,” 1 p., in-8, Paris, May 23, 1834—annotations by the recipient: "I authorize the person in charge of this letter to sign on my behalf a receipt for the works that
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:20 PM
220 - Pierre LAFFITTE (1823–1903, Positivist philosopher, disciple of Auguste Comte, whose will he executed) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, Paris, May 31, 1891
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:20 PM
221 - Abbé Jean-Louis VERGER (1826–1857; he murdered Monsignor Sibour, Archbishop of Paris, on January 3, 1857; sentenced to death, he was guillotined on January 30, 1857) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8, Paris, January 3, 1856 (exactly one year before committing his crime), to a vicar: “You were so kind to me in 1855! Why would you change your attitude in ’56? I am very anxious” [This rather peculiar priest spent his life deep in debt, not even hesitating to steal; his incessant request
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:21 PM
222 - Anna de BELOCCA (1852–1919, Russian singer, contralto) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, on letterhead bearing her crowned monogram, Passy, addressed to a “dear Marquis”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:21 PM
223 - MONT SAINT-MICHEL - Louis François COTTIN (A native of Lyon and a participant in the 1830 uprising, he took part in the sacking of the Tuileries and was caught with Crown diamonds; he was convicted and imprisoned at Mont Saint-Michel; a man of letters, he wrote a collection of songs in prison that was published in 1845, *Chants de Mort d’un Prisonnier du Mont Saint-Michel* [Death Songs of a Prisoner of Mont Saint-Michel], and came to be known as the “Chantre du Mont Saint-Michel”) / Signe
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:22 PM
224 - Château de SOUPIRE (02) - Abbé Denis-Joseph MANESSE (1743–1820, canon of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons and writer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, large 8vo plus address page, Soupire (Aisne), January 15, 1820, to his nephew, an auctioneer in Valenciennes
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:22 PM
225 - Chartreuse of BOURGFONTAINE - Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne) / A certificate written and signed in the Prior’s own hand, 1 page, large 8vo, drawn up at the Chartreuse de Bourgfontaine on December 29, 1764—traces of a red wax seal
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:23 PM
226 - Jan van BEERS (1852–1927, Belgian painter and illustrator) / Autographed card, 2 pages, small oblong in-12 format on cardboard with gilt edges, featuring a metal medallion stamped with the word "ILLUSION": Thank-you note for invitations
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:23 PM
227 - Ernest CLER de LANDRESSE (1800–1862, Orientalist) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, small quarto, on letterhead from the Library of the Royal Institute of France, May 29, 1846
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:24 PM
228 - ARGENTINA - General Eugenio NECOCHEA ZARAZA (1797–1862, Argentine military officer and politician; a town in Greater Buenos Aires is named after him, Villa General Eugenio Necochea) / Hand-signed letter in Spanish, 1 folio page, with the letterhead “Inspeccion Jeneral del Ejercito,” Santiago, April 10, 1858, addressed to Mr. Juillet Saint Lager
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:24 PM
229 - Justinien Nicolas CLARY (1816–1896, military officer and politician, nephew of Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden, and cousin of Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Napoleon III) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, April 25, 1848 (Certification in an apostille at the top of the letter)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:25 PM
230 - Marie de ROTHSCHILD (née Pérouse, 1862–1937, wife of British banker Leopold de ROTHSCHILD) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8, on "Gunnersburg Park Arton" letterhead, to Marie BLOSSIER, founder of the renowned Parisian fashion house Morin-Blossier: "Are my dresses ready? I hope so, because I’m in a hurry and was actually counting on having them this week. Please send them as soon as possible."
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:25 PM
231 - Jean Adolphe ALHAIZA (Tarbes, 1839–1922, journalist and follower of FOURIER) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, on "La Rénovation" letterhead—"Ecole sociétaire phalanstérienne," Montreuil, February 21, 1903: Upon his return from Spain, he made himself available to his correspondent
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:26 PM
232 - LES LILAS (93) - SEGAUX Institution - Alexis SEGAUX (1831–1884; in 1868, he founded a boarding school for boys on Rue de l’Avenir in Les Lilas; upon his death in 1884, his son Hector took over as director) - Hector SEGAUX (1860–1938) / Signed autograph letter, 3 pages, in-8 format, with a beautiful illustrated letterhead from the Institution, Les Lilas, March 30, 1887, to Henri MARMOTTAN (1832–1914, President of the Paris Orphans’ Fund): "As the director and owner of one of the best-lo
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:26 PM
233 - Théophile GIDE (1822–1890, painter and student of Delaroche and Cogniet) / Autograph signed letter, 1 page in-12, to Madame Cottinet, wife of the poet: “Here is Ab el Kader, who is asking me for some addresses. I’m sending him to you in the hope that it will please you; have a chat with him—he’s an interesting fellow. He’s a relative of the Emir, and I believe he’s a prisoner in France, trying to get himself out of this predicament by engaging in a little trade."
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:27 PM
234 - PHONETICIAN - Adolphe ZÜND-BURGER (1870–1937, specialist in speech disorders) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, in-8 format, on letterhead "Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics," Collège de France, Paris, September 10, 1898
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:27 PM
235 - Michel CHASLES (1793–1880, mathematician, whose name has been remembered by posterity for his passion for autographs; he was the one who fell victim to the famous forger Vrain-Lucas, paying a fortune for implausible autographs ranging from Mary Magdalene to Jesus, Galileo, and even Newton) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, July 15, 1863
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:28 PM
236 - LORRAINE - Emile MICHEL (1828–1909, painter) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, November 4, 1906, [to the painter Emile Friant]
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:28 PM
237 - LILLE - Alfred AGACHE (Lille, 1843–1915, painter) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8: He is leaving for Lille and is disappointed that he will not see his correspondent: “Always my bad luck.”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:29 PM
238 - Adrien MOREAU [Troyes, 1843–1906, painter] / Autograph signed card, 1 p., oblong in-12 format, Brolles (Bois-le-Roi, Seine-et-Marne), August 12, 1892: "My friend Mr. Audran [Edmond Audran, 1842–1901, composer] is currently composing an opera. The story is set in Holland, and he is coming to see you to ask for some information about your country."
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:29 PM
239 - Elise VOÏART (1786–1866, woman of letters) / Signed autograph letter, 3 pages, in-8 format, plus an address page with a postal cut, Choisy-le-Roi, August 16, 1826
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:30 PM
240 - Emile LITTRE (1801–1881, lexicographer known for his dictionary, philosopher, and politician) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, Paris, June 18, 1876
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:30 PM
241 - HENNEBONT (56) - Gildas CHRESTIEN de POMMORIO (Auray, 1753–1794; lawyer, mayor, and seneschal of Hennebont; deputy to the Estates of Brittany; he was guillotined in 1794) / Handwritten, signed certification, 1 p. in-8 oblong, drawn up at his residence on September 20, 1786, bearing the red wax seal of his coat of arms: He certifies the authenticity of the signature on the reverse side by Father Le Borgnes, who provided an extract from the register of the parish of Ploërdut, Diocese of Vannes
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:31 PM
242 - Michel Louis de MALEZIEU (1640–1717, Advisor to the King, Intendant of the Camps and Armies on the borders of Champagne and Lorraine; he is buried in the Church of Saint-Eustache in Paris; brother of Nicolas de Malézieu, mathematician and man of letters of the Académie française) / A receipt on parchment signed in his own hand, issued on November 10, 1677, for his salary in the service of the King’s Army in Germany, 1 p., oblong in-8
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:31 PM
243 - Abel de PUJOL (1785–1861, painter) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8 plus address page with postage, Paris, August 18, 1842, to the painter Claude-Marie Dubufé
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:32 PM
244 - Harold BAUER (1873–1951, British pianist) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:32 PM
245 - FOLIES BERGERE - Juanita de FREZIA (Spanish dancer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, October 26, 1899: She is very busy and cannot arrange a meeting with her correspondent, but he can come “see me in my dressing room at the Folies Bergère”; “if you give your card to the usher, they will let you go up.”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:33 PM
246 - Count Xavier de SADE (1777–1846, elected politician from the Aisne department) / Autograph signed letter, 2 pages, large 8vo, from Condé (near Château-Thierry)—now Condé-en-Brie
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:33 PM
247 - Iwan GIKLIN (1858–1924, Belgian poet) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, in-8 format, February 20, 1920, to Belgian art critic Paul Colin
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:34 PM
248 - Paul Duc de NOAILLES (1802–1885, politician, financier, and historian of the Académie Française) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, in-8 format, February 3, 1862 / Enclosed: portrait taken from a period magazine
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:34 PM
249 - SOUBISE VOLUNTEER REGIMENT - Albert Louis Aymar Le Fournier, Count of WARGEMONT, Knight of Saint-Louis at age 24, Lieutenant Colonel in the Soubise Regiment (commanding Upper Normandy) / Autograph certificate, signed, 1 p., small in-4, issued in Paris on May 1, 1787, bearing his red wax seal, in favor of Robert Palastre, formerly attached to Turpin’s Infantry, who transferred to the Soubise Volunteers Regiment as a lieutenant
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:35 PM
250 - Pierre Charles LESAGE (Livry 1740–1810, civil engineer) / Title page (detached) from his work “Notice sur M. Perronet,” 1 p., in-4, with an autograph dedication signed in 1805 on the back
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:35 PM
251 - LOZERE (Pays de Gévaudan) / Set of 2 parchments (each 25 x 17.5 cm) bearing the tax stamp of the Generality of Auvergne, 1777 and 1782: Two judgments rendered in favor of Joseph de Michel Duroc, Lord of Estremiac, residing in Saint-Chély, against the miller Jean Chauvet, residing in Roumaniac [From this family came General Duroc, a prominent figure of the Empire, Duke of Friuli and Grand Marshal of the Palace)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:36 PM
252 - Charles DAMBRAY (1760–1829, Chancellor of France and President of the Chamber of Peers) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., small in-4, October 7, 1814
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:36 PM
253 - Hugues BOUFFE (1800–1888, actor and playwright) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8 plus address page / Enclosed: a business card bearing his name with a few handwritten, signed words
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:37 PM
254 - BRAZIL - Albert BRASSEUR (1862–1932, actor and operetta singer) / Signed autograph postcard, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), September 19, 1910 (postmark), to his talent agent: “In very good health and delighted with the success”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:37 PM
255 - MONROSE, Père (Claude-Louis-Séraphin Monrose, known as, 1783–1843, actor at the Comédie-Française) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, August 10, 1832, to the actor LAFON: A note of thanks for condolences upon the death of his wife
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:38 PM
256 - Gaspard de CHABROL (1773–1843, Prefect of the Seine appointed by Napoleon I; he remained in office for 18 years) / Letter signed in his own hand, 2 pages, small quarto, March 19, 1827, to Marquis François de BEAUHARNAIS (brother of Josephine’s first husband)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:38 PM
257 - Robert CAUDRILLIERS (La Fère, Aisne, 1888–1959, photojournalist; he covered the early days of aviation and flew with Blériot and Farman, becoming a pioneer of aerial photography; he later became the journalist specializing in the “Tour de France”) / Autograph letter signed from his youth (he was not yet 20 years old), 1 page, small in-8 format, July 29, 1908
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:39 PM
258 - [Saint Thérèse] - Abbé Jean-Auguste VALADIER (1851–1915, chaplain at La Roquette Prison; he was called as a witness in the ordinary process for the canonization of Thérèse of Lisieux, witness no. 11) / Signed autograph letter, 3 pages, in-8 format, Paris, October 14, 1900, to Victor Deléglise (collector and bibliophile): He invites the couple to come and share his frugal meal—since he has to preach, he will need the entire morning to prepare his sermon
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:39 PM
259 - Fernand CALMETTES (1846–1914, painter and novelist) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8 (with mourning border), Paris, July 19, 1908: he details the circumstances of their upcoming meeting
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:40 PM
260 - MAYA THE BEE - Waldemar BONSELS (1880–1952, German children’s book author, creator of the character Maya the Bee) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, December 10, 1941, to the publisher Stock
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:40 PM
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 [Cel
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:41 PM
262 - Paul MARMOTTAN (1856–1932, historian, collector, and patron of the arts; founder, through a bequest, of the museum that bears his name) / Business card in his name, handwritten by him, with an envelope included
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:41 PM
263 - Louis BERTHOMME SAINT ANDRE (1905–1977, painter, illustrator, and lithographer) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, in-4 (a few tears), Paris, June 9, 1955: He agrees to produce the 15 drawings requested by his correspondent but notes that he never does pen-and-ink drawings, “a medium that, moreover, lends itself very poorly to the depiction of romantic scenes, which require contrasts in the softness of tones and models.”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:42 PM
264 - USA - Alben William BARKLEY (1877–1956, American statesman of the Democratic Party, Vice President of the United States from 1949 to 1953) / Hand-signed typewritten letter, 1 page in-4, on his letterhead, January 4, 1949, to Mrs. Thome Patenotre, a member of the Franco-American Friendship Society
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:42 PM
265 - General Georges CATROUX (1877–1969, General of the Army and Minister) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, on letterhead reading “Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:43 PM
266 - Marcel ARLAND (1899–1986, writer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, November 22, 1943, envelope included (taped to the back)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:43 PM
267 - Georges LIMBOUR (Courbevoie, 1900–1970, writer and poet; he was involved in the Surrealist movement and was a member of the College of Pataphysics) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, addressed to “Monsieur Le Censeur” (Limbour was a philosophy teacher, notably at the Lycée Jean-Baptiste Say in Paris), in which he requests a leave of absence for health reasons
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:44 PM
268 - Hélène MURAT (née Bianchi, 1870–1940, writer, wife of Count Joachim Murat) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, in-4, December 22, 1916
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:44 PM
269 - Franco VERCELOTTI (Italian photographer and friend of the poet Pierre-Jean Jouve, whose works he illustrated) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, October 11, 1971, to Pierre-Jean Jouve
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:45 PM
270 - René VALLERY RADOT [1853–1933, physician, son-in-law of Louis PASTEUR and his first biographer, writer] / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages in-8 on paper edged with mourning ribbon, on letterhead bearing his Paris address, January 13, 1913, regarding Dr. Jean Binot (1867–1909, physician, biologist, and hygienist, laboratory director at the Pasteur Institute) and “the need to perpetuate the memory of the place rightly accorded in the annals of hygiene to the man who did so much for this sci
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:45 PM
271 - Eugénie BUFFET (1866–1934, music hall singer nicknamed “La Cigale nationale”) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages in 12, from Monte Carlo, Villa Florent Andréi (Boulevard de France)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:46 PM
272 - DANCE - Blanche MANTE (A dancer with the Paris Opera during the Belle Époque, she and her two sisters, Suzanne and Louise—who were also dancers—were among the painter Degas’s favorite models) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, oblong in-8 format on superb stationery typical of the Belle Époque Modern Style (2 separate sheets): she is happy to be able to resume rehearsals soon, but Boyer, the Opera’s general secretary, told her that he could not schedule them for the matinee
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:46 PM
273 - Lucien ROLMER (Marseille, 1880–1916, novelist, poet, and journalist; died at the Champ d’Honneur in Douaumont) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages in-4, on illustrated letterhead "La Flora - Revue des Lettres de l'Art gracieux" [of which Romer was the editor-in-chief], Paris, April 7, 1913, [to the poet Emile Cottinet]: he had his latest book, “Les Amours Ennemies,” sent to him but fears it may have gone astray
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:47 PM
274 - General MASSU—Suzanne ROSAMBERT (1907–1977; before the war, she ran an avant-garde art gallery; she married the lawyer and Socialist politician Henry Torrès; as a member of the Resistance in the Rochambeau Group, she joined the 2nd Armored Division of the Free French Forces and took part in the D-Day landings and the Liberation of Paris; remaining at General Leclerc’s side, she became Commander of the Women’s Forces of the Expeditionary Corps in Indochina, where she met General Massu an
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:47 PM
275 - Count Emilien de NIEUWERKERKE (1811–1892, sculptor, director of museums, deeply involved in the cultural life of the Second Empire, companion of Princess Mathilde) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8, on letterhead of the “Direction Générale des Musées Nationaux,” December 10, 1851, one week after the coup d’état, to Auguste GALIMARD (1813–1880, painter and art critic): He warmly thanks him for “sending the second installment of your book.”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:48 PM
276 - Alexander JOHNSTON (1816–1891, Scottish painter) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, in-8, December 5, 1855
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:48 PM
277 - Paul RENOUARD (1845–1924, painter, illustrator, and engraver) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, in-8, Paris, May 4, 1900: He is detained at the World’s Fair, where he will be working throughout the season: “I will not be able to be at the studio until tomorrow, Saturday ” [Paul Renouard worked as an illustrator for newspapers such as *L’Illustration*; he “covered” the major events of his time, such as the World’s Fairs, the Dreyfus trial, the Zola trial, etc.]
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:49 PM
278 - François de MARNEFFE (1793–1877, Belgian landscape painter) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, large 8vo, plus an address page: his painting is finished, and he asks his correspondent to come see it
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:49 PM
279 - Prince Alexei Fyodorovich ORLOFF (1787–1862, Russian military officer and diplomat, a trusted confidant of Tsar Nicholas I; he served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1856 to 1861, it was in his honor that his French chef, Urbain Dubois, named his famous veal recipe “Selle de Veau Orloff”) / Autograph letter written in the third person, 1 p. in-8 plus address page, Paris, January 23, 1857, to the bookseller Dumaine in Paris: He asks him to recommend “the best and most recent
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€10
Until November 10 | 03:50 PM
280 - Gabriel de LA LANDELLE (1812–1886), a naval officer, writer, and aviation pioneer, was an inspiration to Jules Verne; he developed a prototype steam-powered helicopter, founded the “Society for the Promotion of Aerial Locomotion by Means of Heavier-than-Air Vehicles” with his friend Nadar, and was passionate about the early days of aeronautics; he was the first to use the term “aviation” in 1863 to refer to “air navigation,” a term that would later be adopted and expanded upon by h
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€10
Until November 10 | 03:50 PM
281 - Alexandra of SAXONY-COBURG-GOTHA, Princess of HOHENLOHE-LANGENBOURG (1878–1942, granddaughter of Queen Victoria on her father’s side and of Tsar Alexander III on her mother’s side; she married the Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg) / Autograph signed letter, 2 pages, in-8, to her dressmaker: she is very upset that she has not yet received her black bodice and gives various other instructions
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€10
Until November 10 | 03:51 PM
282 - Rosine LABORDE (1824–1907, opera singer; in 1865, after a distinguished career at the Paris Opera and the Opéra International, she devoted herself to teaching) / Signed autograph letter, 4 pages in-12 on mourning paper, with a letterhead bearing her monogram and address, to her “dear Marie”: she would be delighted by her visit and would take the opportunity to have her “listen to two young girls who, I believe, will have successful careers”; “We will sing the duet from *Norma* that
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€10
Until November 10 | 03:51 PM
283 - Restaurant and Bouillon des 4 TOURNELLES (50 rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs in Paris) / Illustrated advertising flyer announcing the opening of this establishment, with a price list, 1889
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:52 PM
284 - Louis de BELGIOJOSO (1728–1801, Italian diplomat) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., small in-4, Brussels, December 6, 1786
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:52 PM
285 - Alfred ROLL (1846–1919, naturalist painter and sculptor) / Signed autograph card, 1 p., oblong in-12 format: he thanks an art critic (the painter Fernand Pinal) for “the kind words you have written about my nude study”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:53 PM
286 - Boson de TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD, Prince of SAGAN (1832–1910, cavalry officer and dandy) / Document signed in his own hand, 1 p., small in-4, dated March 26, 1896: He grants power of attorney to be represented at the general meeting of the “Les Acacias” Society (this sports club, located in the Bois de Boulogne, was a very exclusive club)
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€10
Until November 10 | 03:53 PM
287 - Charles Hugues de LIONNE, Marquis de Berny (died in 1731, a soldier in the armies of King Louis XIV, grandson of Louis XIV’s great minister) / Certificate with autograph-signed record of service, 1 p., small in-4, issued in Paris on November 20, 1719, in favor of Sieur de La Combe, second captain of grenadiers in the Lionne Regiment (The Count de Lionne had taken command of this regiment in 1710; it was formerly known as the Beaujolais Regiment)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:54 PM
288 - DELIA-COL (Délia Col, 1896–1987, actress) / Original photograph by ARNAL, with a signed autograph dedication dated 1936 (17.5 x 23 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:54 PM
289 - Betty HOOP (Lucienne Amblard, known as, 1914–1981, vaudeville performer) / Original photograph by Harcourt with an autographed dedication dated June 24, 1939 (17 x 23.5 cm, mounted on laid paper)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:55 PM
290 - Cora LAPARCERIE-RICHEPIN (1875–1951, actress, wife of Jacques Richepin) / Photo on a postcard that she signed by hand in March 1905; the postcard was mailed that same year, 1905
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:55 PM
291 - Louis Joseph SOULAS (1905–1954, painter and printmaker) / Original etching signed in pencil by the artist; this is a greeting card for 1952, accompanied by a signed autograph letter (16 x 11.5 cm for the etching, including the mat)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:56 PM
292 - Louis Joseph SOULAS (1905–1954, painter and printmaker) / Original etching signed in pencil by the artist; this is a greeting card for 1952, accompanied by a signed autograph letter (16 x 11.5 cm for the etching, including the mat)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:56 PM
293 - Marcel MARTINET (Dijon 1887–1944, revolutionary socialist and pacifist activist, proletarian writer) / Signed autograph letter, 4 pages, in-8 format, Grenoble, June 20, 1925, to Marcelle SIBON, translator (notably of Graham Greene), original envelope preserved and attached (truncated): An affectionate letter filled with nostalgia
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:57 PM
294 - Sosthène de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Duke of BISACCIA (1825–1908, diplomat and politician) / Power of attorney signed in his own hand, 1 page, small quarto, dated June 14, 189?: He grants power of attorney to be represented at the general meeting of the “Les Acacias” Society (this sports club, located in the Bois de Boulogne, was a very exclusive club)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:57 PM
295 - Félix LE COUPPEY (1814–1887, pianist and composer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-12
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:58 PM
296 - Léon LHERMITTE (Mont-Saint-Père, Aisne, 1844–1925, painter and engraver) / A business card bearing his name, with a few handwritten, signed words of thanks to an art critic [the painter Fernand Pinal] regarding his “pastels currently on display”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:58 PM
297 - Charles BAUDIN (1784–1854, Admiral of France in 1854) / Letter signed in his own hand (with his left hand—his right arm had been severed by a cannonball in 1808 during a battle against the British in the Indian Ocean), in his capacity as Maritime Prefect, 1 p., in-4, Toulon, March 15, 1842: He informs his correspondent that his son will be able to learn “the art of shipbuilding” in the shipyards, “provided that, under no circumstances, does this result in the slightest expense to the S
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:59 PM
298 - Anna THIBAUD (1861–1948, Belle Époque singer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8 plus address page, April 17, 1915, to Mr. Dandelot
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 03:59 PM
299 - Claude Philibert Barthelot, Count of RAMBUTEAU [Mâcon, 1781–1869], Councilor of State, Peer of France, Prefect of the Seine from 1833 to 1848; he laid the groundwork for the transformation of Paris and was responsible for the creation of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées) / Letter signed “Cte de Rambuteau” in his own hand, 2 pages in-4, on letterhead “Préfecture de la Seine – Cabinet du Préfet,” Paris, July 24, 1840, to Mr. Grûn, editor-in-chief of the *Moniteur Universel*: regardi
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:00 PM
300 - Eugène LE POITEVIN (1806–1870, painter, engraver, and illustrator) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-12 plus address page with postage, Paris, June 9, 1843, to the painter Ferdinand WACHSMUTH (1802–1869): in it, he informs him of his appointment as a Knight of the Legion of Honor
Starting price
€10
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