SAND George (1804-1876). - Lot 211

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SAND George (1804-1876). - Lot 211
SAND George (1804-1876). MANUSCRIT in part autograph, signed "George Sand", Gabriel, Drama in 5 acts with Prologue and Epilogue, [1851]; 243 pages in-4 (27,3 x21,7 cm) in 7 sewn quires, brown paper covers. Manuscript of an unpublished play. From her "dialogue novel" Gabriel (1839), Sand is going to draw a drama on which she is working during the summer of 1851; she sends the manuscript to Hetzel on 6 October 1851. She then intended her play, sometimes called Gabriel, sometimes Julia, for the Porte Saint-Martin, and then thought of Rachel for the title role. In 1853, she proposed it to the Odéon, then again to the Porte Saint-Martin in 1855, without success. The play will never be played, and has remained unpublished. The action takes place in Florence and then in Rome. Prince Julius of Bramante does not want his grandson Astolphe, who leads a debauched life and comes from the younger branch, to inherit the title; he decides to have his granddaughter Julia, from the elder branch, raised as a boy, under the name of Gabriel, by inspiring in him hatred of the female sex. Love will however bring Astolphe and Gabriel closer together. But Gabriel, a torn androgyne, will let himself be killed by an envoy of the prince, furious that Gabriel has revealed his secret.The manuscript, entirely in blue ink on the front of the leaves, with a wide margin, includes seven quires: Prologue (36 ff.), act I (36 ff.), act II (44 ff.), act III (39 ff.), act IV (40 ff, the last 4 blanks), acet V (38 ff, the last blank), Epilogue (19 ff, the last 3 blanks). The Prologue and the first three acts are copied in blue ink by Alexandre Manceau, George Sand's companion. The last two acts and the epilogue are in Sand's hand. Sand carefully revised the notebooks copied by Manceau, with numerous erasures and autograph corrections, in the line spaces, the margins, or by collages bearing a new text, or even autograph pages integrated into the notebook to replace a discarded passage. She proceeded in the same way in the autograph acts, where the planting of the scenery is written by Manceau. At the beginning of Acts IV and V, Manceau pasted a model of the set on the page opposite the beginning of the act. Act IV (gouache watercolor): "In Rome. An arcade of the Coliseum, lit by the moon and dark in places. One sees by the arcade a part of the amphitheatre which is lost in flight, on the right "...; Act V (pen and watercolor): " The Palace of Prince Julius in Rome. A rich bedroom. A door on the left. A large door at the back; closed with a tapestry armorial and giving on the room of the guards ".
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