MISTRAL, Frédéric (1830-1914). Beautiful set of 8 documents: - Lot 191

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MISTRAL, Frédéric (1830-1914). Beautiful set of 8 documents: - Lot 191
MISTRAL, Frédéric (1830-1914). Beautiful set of 8 documents: -L.A.S. Maillane, July 6, 1883. 4 pp. in-8. Letter addressed to a poet of the Fébrilige, the famous work founded by Mistral in 1854 for the safeguard of the language and culture of the Pays d'Oc. It is about Mireille, Mistral's masterpiece, and works of Provençal grammar and vocabulary. -L.A.S. to a colleague [Théodore Cabeau?] Maillane, June 11, 1904. 2 pp. in-12 square. "I am sending you my Provençal-French dictionary [...] I would have brought my stone to the palace of the joyful goddess of which you are one of the happy favorites [...]". -P.A.S. to a poet. Maillane, July 6, 1910. 1 p. in-16 narrow. Mistral gives 10 francs for the monument raised to the memory of Henri Cazalis, known as Jean Lahor, symbolist poet and doctor of the Parnassian poets, of Mallarmé and Verlaine. -L.A.S to Raymond Poincaré. Maillane, October 14, 1913. 2 pp. in-4. Very beautiful plea in favor of folklorism, folklorism of which Claude Seignolle carried the standard high. "Mister President [...]. By coming to greet in his humble village the Provençal poet who has never left it, you testify very high your sympathies of patriot for this Regionalism in which our France will have, I have the faith, its rejuvenation. [...] the maintenance of what makes the charm of our old provinces: the customs, the costumes, the traditions, the dialect, and all these varieties which express the life of a truly free people and which root the race in the soil of the ancestors [...] ". -L.A.S. in Provençal. Maillane, November 25, 1907. 3 pp. in-8. Small tears. -2 C.A.S to Fernand Hauser. Maillane, June 14, 1909 and March 19, 1913. 3 pp. in-12 oblong. -Black and white photograph of Frédéric Mistral and Raymond Poincaré. 17 x 22,5 cm. A C.A. from Madame Frédéric Mistral, addressed to Amédée de Montrichard, is enclosed. Maillane, June 8, 1914.
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