BANVILLE Théodore de (1823-1891). Autograph poem signed "Théodore de Banville", Petites odes. L'Immortelle, [1888]; 2 1/2 pages small in-4. Witty response to Daudet's novel, L'Immortel (1888), which violently attacked the Academy. This poem of 9 quatrains was collected in Sonnailles et clochettes (Charpentier, 1890). "Muse, Daudet is not right; His justice is only apparent, For your divine flowering Lives very well with the Forty. The Academy is a phoenix Laughing like Cypris in the island; And certainly it has Monsieur X, But it has Leconte de Lisle "
Timed Tuesday 19 April 2022・19:00 (Europe/Paris)
Lot no. 12

BANVILLE Théodore de (1823-1891). Autograph poem signed "Théodore de Banville", Petites odes. L'Immortelle, [1888]; 2 1/2 pages small in-4. Witty response to Daudet's novel, L'Immortel (1888), which violently attacked the Academy. This poem of 9 quatrains was collected in Sonnailles et clochettes (Charpentier, 1890). "Muse, Daudet is not right; His justice is only apparent, For your divine flowering Lives very well with the Forty. The Academy is a phoenix Laughing like Cypris in the island; And certainly it has Monsieur X, But it has Leconte de Lisle "

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€300 - €400
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€210
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30%
BANVILLE Théodore de (1823-1891). Autograph poem signed "Théodore de Banville", Petites odes. L'Immortelle, [1888]; 2 1/2 pages small in-4. Witty response to Daudet's novel, L'Immortel (1888), which violently attacked the Academy. This poem of 9 quatrains was collected in Sonnailles et clochettes (Charpentier, 1890). "Muse, Daudet is not right; His justice is only apparent, For your divine flowering Lives very well with the Forty. The Academy is a phoenix Laughing like Cypris in the island; And certainly it has Monsieur X, But it has Leconte de Lisle "
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ARISTOPHIL : French Academy
Tuesday 19 April 2022・19:00 (Europe/Paris)
Sale location coming soon 7 rue Drouot 75009 Paris