Léon DAUDET (1867-1942)
Autograph manuscript signed, L'Entre-deux-guerres, 1915; 246 pages in-fol.
Third volume of Léon Daudet's fascinating souvenirs.
Published by the Nouvelle Librairie Nationale in 1915, this third series of Léon Daudet's "souvenirs of literary, political, artistic and medical circles from 1880 to 1905" goes from 1890 to 1904. Daudet evokes, among other things, the time of the anarchists, the influence of the Jews, F. Rops and Forain, the Catalan painter Santiago Rusiñol, the world of newspapers and magazines, Tolstoyism, Ibsenism and Nietzscheism, the Panama scandal, his stays in England and Venice, Wagner at the Opera, etc.
The manuscript, signed and dated at the end of September 17, 1915, is complete and includes the eight chapters of the book; it presents erasures and corrections, and some press clippings pasted into the text.
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Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript signed, L'Entre-deux-guerres, 1915; 246 pages in-fol. Third volume of Léon Daudet's fascinating souvenirs. Published by the Nouvelle Librairie Nationale in 1915, this third series of Léon Daudet's "souvenirs of literary, political, artistic and medical circles from 1880 to 1905" goes from 1890 to 1904. Daudet evokes, among other things, the time of the anarchists, the influence of the Jews, F. Rops and Forain, the Catalan painter Santiago Rusiñol, the world of newspapers and magazines, Tolstoyism, Ibsenism and Nietzscheism, the Panama scandal, his stays in England and Venice, Wagner at the Opera, etc. The manuscript, signed and dated at the end of September 17, 1915, is complete and includes the eight chapters of the book; it presents erasures and corrections, and some press clippings pasted into the text.

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€1,000 - €1,500
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€900
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25%
Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript signed, L'Entre-deux-guerres, 1915; 246 pages in-fol. Third volume of Léon Daudet's fascinating souvenirs. Published by the Nouvelle Librairie Nationale in 1915, this third series of Léon Daudet's "souvenirs of literary, political, artistic and medical circles from 1880 to 1905" goes from 1890 to 1904. Daudet evokes, among other things, the time of the anarchists, the influence of the Jews, F. Rops and Forain, the Catalan painter Santiago Rusiñol, the world of newspapers and magazines, Tolstoyism, Ibsenism and Nietzscheism, the Panama scandal, his stays in England and Venice, Wagner at the Opera, etc. The manuscript, signed and dated at the end of September 17, 1915, is complete and includes the eight chapters of the book; it presents erasures and corrections, and some press clippings pasted into the text.
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