MIRBEAU, Octave (1848-1917). Set of 2 documents: - Lot 188

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MIRBEAU, Octave (1848-1917). Set of 2 documents: - Lot 188
MIRBEAU, Octave (1848-1917). Set of 2 documents: - M.A.S. entitled " Le grand courant historique - De la comtesse de Présalé à la marquise de Vautondu ". S.l., March 20, 1902. 2 pp. 1/2 in-4. Long and very amusing satirical letter in which Mirbeau, faithful to his habits, castigates the ridiculousness of the bourgeois. He erodes, insisting, the writer Jules Lemaître. He signs "Gertrude. For a true copy, Octave Mirbeau. - L.A.S. to Henri Mayer. [Paris], November 11, 1902. 1/2 p. in-8. Preserved envelope. The playwright invites the actor to attend the reading of his play Les Affaires sont les affaires, in which Mayer will play the role of the Viscount de la Fontenelle. "I will ask you the most absolute secrecy, for this reading, very intimate, because I would not want my friend [Maurice] Donnay to take offense [...] ". Enclosed -A long autograph manuscript signed by Gustave Geffroy entitled Octave Mirbeau. S.l., August 26 [1898]. 3 pp. 1/2 in-8. Scratchings, corrections, additions and printing remarks. Beautiful study praising the Mauvais Bergers and evoking the Goncourt brothers and Alphonse Daudet. -A letter from Mirbeau to Paul Adam on the title page of his novel LA 628-E8 " To Paul Adam his friend Octave Mirbeau ". -A L.A.S. from Edouard Pailleron addressed to Mirbeau. S.l.n.d. 3 pp. in-8. Pailleron gives a glowing review of Mirbeau's first book: Les Lettres de ma chaumière. "[...] You have a lot of talent. Journalism devours you. You cut your wheat in grass [...]".
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