RICTUS, Gabriel Randon de Saint-Amand dit Jehan (1867-1933). - Lot 200

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RICTUS, Gabriel Randon de Saint-Amand dit Jehan (1867-1933). - Lot 200
RICTUS, Gabriel Randon de Saint-Amand dit Jehan (1867-1933). Important set of 11 documents. -M.A.S. entitled " Impressions de promenade ", extracted from his famous Soliloque du pauvre. Paris, 1895. 3 pp. large in-4. Formed of fifteen quatrains. -M.A. entitled " Projet de Note préliminaire à publier dans la bibliographie (à modifier, augmenter, diminuer selon... ". S.l.n.d. 1 p. in-4 (collages of two leaves). About Coeur populaire " (collection of poems in popular language) volume of more than 400 pages currently in press, decorated with an original portrait of A. Steinlen [...]". -M.A.S. entitled "Chanson de Taote (diminutive of Charlotte) in Ataotic patois". Château du Colombet, Sanary, July 1927 - April 1929. 4 pp. in-4. -6 L.A.S. notably to Gaston Picard, Pierre Wolff and Marc Chesneau. Paris and s.l., 1916, 1926, 1931, 1933 and s.d. 13 pp. in-8. Three envelopes preserved. Perforations of folder to a mail. Very interesting and dense mails related to poetry as food for the poor and reflection of the common language: "Poetry should be the bread and butter of the multitudes and not the privilege of a class (the rich class in this case). To recite its Poems to the crowd (and not in the salons) is the good tradition from Homer to Villon [...]", he develops and adds "I have always believed in this, and I have always acted in this sense". "In truth, poetry, which should ennoble and embellish everything, should use all kinds of language, the vulgar, "domestic" language, as well as the erotic and even obscene language. [Did you not notice that Baudelaire, in his most beautiful poems, uses a vocabulary that would be used by the most humble of housekeepers? [...] ". He evokes the Soliloque du Pauvre, etc. -L.A.S. [to Maurice Toussaint, with on the back, a beautiful drawing in Rictus' hand, captioned "Cousot always seems to pull the devil by the tail! Paris, December 31, 1922. 2 pp. in-8 oblong. Rictus evokes his "Skeletal Album", his copyright, etc. On the back one can see Frédéric Cousot (1856-1932) represented pulling a devil by the tail. -C.V.A.S. to "Mon cher Charles". S.l.n.d. 2 pp. in-16 oblong. "[...] Amazing your William II, truly amazing. [...] Since Napoleon I never England had such an enemy [...]".
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