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DESBORDES-VALMORE, Marceline (1786-1859)
Autograph poem : " Romance " [Seule au Rendez-vous]N.p.n.d [after 1833], 1 p. 1/2 in-8° with her initials on top left cornerSlight missing bit on second folio (without affecting the text)
From the Rodocanachi library
One of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's most beautiful poems, from her collection Les Pleurs

Several unpublished variants are to be observed with the published version, including an inversion of stanzas 2 and 3
Entitled "Romance" here, the title of the poem as published is Seule au rendez-vous
" Ô menteur ! qui disait sa vie,Nouée au fuseau de mon sort,Criant au ciel que son envieÉtait de mourir de ma mort :Éclos sous le feu de mon ame,Tremblant de s'y brûler un jour,Il jeta des pleurs sur la flamme :Ô menteur ! ô menteur d'amour !
Ivres d'un bonheur solitaire,Nos ailes ont touché les cieux ;Mais il est enfant de la terre ;Il y retombe curieux.à mes yeux plein de ses traits d'AngeLe monde est voilé sans Retour ;mais il a changé, le ciel… Leer más

VERLAINE, Paul (1844-1896)
Autograph letter signed " P Verlaine " to Jules Rais
[Paris] 39 rue Descartes, 2 January [18]96, 1 p. in-12° on laid paper
Some tiny spots
One of Verlaine's last letters, with a hesitant handwriting, a week before his death


" Cher ami,
Oui, j'adhère à votre journal. Imprimez-moi parmi collaborateurs et m'écrivez détails/
Très, très souffrant. Au lit et au lait. C'est pourquoi je vous écris si peu et si mal.
A vous de cœur.
P Verlaine
39 rue Descartes "


This letter is a response to a request from Jules Rais who announces to Verlaine, in a letter of late December 1895, the imminent creation of the magazine L'Image and invites the poet to become one of its collaborators:
" J'en suis secrétaire de rédaction. Des graveurs sur bois l'illustreront afin de lutter contre les procédés industriels et de rendre au livre sa beauté de jadis. Goncourt, Zola […] ont promis leur collaboration. Roger Marx en est. On annonce Huysmans, Geffroy, Descaves, Mendès, Barrès,… Leer más

PROUST, Jeanne WEIL (1849-1905)
[5th December 1904], original period film print.
Round photography (15,9 cm diameter), mounted on thick paper frame in the photographer's name.
Tiny spot on lower margin of the mounting, small stain
Stamp on verso from collection [Suzy] Mante-Proust collection
One of Jeanne Weil Proust's last portraits, less than a year before her death


This portrait was taken on December 5th 1904. At this time, aged 56 years old, Proust's mother has been a widow for a year. The translation of his son's The Bible of Amiens was published that same year. She died of nephritis a year later, on September 26, 1905. Nadar did process her portrait, and removed the shadows and various flaws on her face.
Michel Schneider notes that the narrator's mother in the Search is obviously inspired by the mother of the author himself. Jeanne Proust was born Jeanne Weil in 1849 from a Jewish family of the enlightened bourgeoisie. Much has been said about the intellectual complicity that united her with… Leer más