Ancient and Modern Manuscripts
Monday 16 November 2026 at 20:00
7 rue Drouot, 75009 Paris
134 lots
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93-1 - Albert MARQUET (1875–1947) Letter from the author (L.A.S.), Paris, December 1, 1905, to G. JEAN-AUBRY in Le Havre; 1 page, in-8 format, with envelope. “I am very pleased that you were able to find me some new collectors in Le Havre”; he accepts his offer and thanks him.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
94 - André MASSON (1896-1987) 16 autograph letters signed, including 3 with envelopes, 1949-1970 to Jean Leymarie; 17 pages in various formats. We enclose 3 envelopes. Aix-en-Provence September 15, 1949: "Dear friend, In summer I received your card from Belle-Isle (...) I know the nooks and crannies, caves and reefs (...) which I love very much! the wild coast. I've been working on my drawings and pastels there ... "Aix-en-Provence September 26, 1949: "Dear friend, Three times thank you: for the Der
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
94-1 - Georges MATHIEU (1921–2012) Autograph letter, signed and dated May 20, 1980, to Jean Leymarie. 3 pages, with “Moult de Parte” letterhead and a beautiful signature. “Dear Jean Leymarie, If Charles Le Brun’s initiative to found the Académie de France in Rome in 1666 continues to be justified today, it is certainly for the sake of people who have cultivated within themselves a genuine passion for an artistic craft, but who also possess a high level of general culture,” etc. Minor creas
Estimate €180 - €230 -
94-2 - Ernest MEISSONIER (1815–1891) 2 letters, 1869 and undated; 1 page in-8 and 1 page in-12. April 27, 1869, to TEDESCO: “I’m working hard and am quite pleased with my work. Mr. Petit, whom I’m expecting on the 6th of next month, will, I hope, agree with me that it’s not too bad. My son is also working on a painting that I think is absolutely fine”… - To a friend: “Please come by Bingham’s to shake my hand, and then I’d like to show you a painting I just brought from Antibes to P
Estimate €150 - €200 -
95 - Jacques-François, known as Abdallah MENOU (1750–1810), general P.S. as Major General, Paris, “on the first day of the second decade of Brumaire, Year II of the Republic” (November 1, 1793); 1 folio-sized page, red wax seal (under glass). Certificate for Citizen Michel Leclerc, “Brigadier Gendarme of the 35th Division, known as the Conquerors of the Bastille, formerly the Mailfert Company,” who “behaved as a zealous Republican and a brave soldier throughout the time he fought against
Estimate €200 - €300 -
96 - MUSIC 5 L.A.S. Léo DELIBES, Benjamin GODARD (3, 1887–1888, discussing his Second Trio and changes made by Capoul), Jules MASSENET (1896, discussing *Hérodiade*).
Estimate €150 - €200 -
97 - MUSIC 34 letters, most of them addressed to cellist Charles LEBOUC (1822–1893). Adolphe ADAM (to Duverger), Pierre BAILLOT (1824, to Mrs. Harmand), Charles de BÉRIOT, Édouard COLONNE (1875), Jules DANBÉ (1884), E.M. DELABORDE, Just GÉRALDY (Brussels 1858), Magdeleine GODARD, Alphonse HASSELMANS (1874), Frédéric KALKBRENNER (1845), Antoine de KONTSKI, Charles LENEPVEU, Hubert LÉONARD (Brussels 1854), Prosper LEVASSEUR (1865), Antoine MARMONTEL, Martin MARSICK (1881), Aglaé MASSART, Caro
Estimate €600 - €800 -
98 - NAPOLEON III (1808–1873) and the Second Empire Lot consisting of: - Autograph letter, Tuileries Palace, June 1867, to Joseph-Marie PIETRI (prefect of police); 1½ pages, in-4 format (slight crease damage). He congratulates him on the measures taken to maintain order during “the presence in Paris over the past few days of several sovereigns and the gathering of a large crowd, drawn by the spectacle of the World’s Fair ”… - 10 letters from figures associated with the Emperor’s househol
Estimate €150 - €250 -
98-1 - Mathieu ORFILA (1787–1853), physician and chemist. Letter from the author (L.A.S.), Paris, June 14, 1836, to Gaultier de Claubry, a teaching assistant at the École Polytechnique; 1 page, in-8 format, on University of France letterhead, with return address. “The City Council committee in charge of the revenue budget is meeting on Thursday morning at seven o’clock, and the session will last until 11:30 a.m. As the rapporteur for this committee, I must attend the session and will therefore n
Estimate €100 - €150 -
99 - [Pierre-François PALLOY (1754–1835), contractor, demolisher of the Bastille] Letter from Jacques BOILLEAU (1751–1793), president of the “Friends of the Constitution of the City of Avallon,” co-signed by two others, Avallon, April 8, “Year 4 of Liberty ” (1792), to “Patriot Palloy”; 1 page, in-4 format, addressed with a red wax seal bearing his crowned monogram. He complains that the town of Avallon has not received any of the “emblems of our revolution, fashioned by your indus
Estimate €200 - €250 -
100 - PARIS WAR OF 1870 A mounted balloon letter postmarked by the Ministry of Finance and dated October 4, 1870. Addressed to Madame Pineau Boutreaux in Angers. Torn and missing.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
101 - PAINTERS. 5 LETTERS. Albert BESNARD (1912, on his election to the Institut), Jules BRETON (Montgeron, 1882, discussing his wife Virginie, who was working on a painting), François FLAMENG (1915, regarding a failed portrait of Queen Alexandra as a nurse), Gustave MOREAU (1880), Félicien ROPS (to J. Uzanne, 1894).
Estimate €150 - €200 -
101-1 - François PORCHÉ (1877–1944) 2 signed autograph manuscripts, [1939]; 4 pages each, small in-4 format, with cross-outs and corrections. Meeting with Jacques Bonhomme. The author meets a farmer, full of common sense, who was drafted and then sent home, and recalls the war he had already experienced at Verdun. German atrocities. A message intended for broadcast on Paris-Mondial on December 9, 1939. Porché discusses the massacres in Poland and Finland, in the face of which one cannot remain neut
Estimate €150 - €200 -
101-2 - James PRADIER (1792–1852) Autograph letter [to Jules JANIN]; 1 page, in-8. He intercedes on behalf of Mr. SERRET, “who has created a small relief model of Mont Blanc,” to whom Janin has promised an article: “It is certain that a few words from your pen can divert a trickle from the river Pactolus to whomever you wish and fill him with happiness”; he asks him to direct his interest toward “a fine old artist […] I haven’t forgotten that a marble bust was gathering a bit of dust in
Estimate €200 - €250 -
102 - Jean-François RAFFAËLLI (1850–1924) Autograph letter with drawing, [Asnières], October 19, 1888, to Stéphane MALLARMÉ; 1 page, in-8 format, with envelope. Regarding the quatrain “La Marchande d’habits,” which appears in the 7th installment of *Types de Paris* (Plon-Nourrit, 1889), illustrated with drawings by Raffaelli. The painter asks Mallarmé for a poem: “The vagaries of the layout have forced me to add a character to our series: could you write 2, 4, or 6 lines for me—no m
Estimate €600 - €800 -
102-1 - REIMS. Louis-Joseph LUÇON (1842–1930), cardinal, archbishop of Reims Autograph letter, Reims, December 30, 1916, to Mr. Michel; 2¼ pages, in-8 format, bearing his coat of arms. “This Christmas, which our forefathers joyfully celebrated in our cathedral in 496, we are celebrating for the third time in the cellars. It is there that the successors of Saint Remi and the descendants of Clovis’s Franks are reduced to celebrating the anniversary of their national baptism and the birth of Jesus
Estimate €150 - €200 -
103 - French Republic Certificate of appointment to the rank of lieutenant in the 76½th Sarazin Brigade, signed by the secretary of the Ministry of War, Year 11. Seal. Vellum. Folds, wear, and stains. Missing sections. Framed.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
103-1 - Manon Philipon, Madame ROLAND (1754–1793) Letter to her husband (Amiens), December 24, 1781. 4 pages. Creases and stains.
Estimate €200 - €300 -
104 - Romain ROLLAND (1866–1944) Letter, June 24 [1895, to Édouard DUJARDIN]; 3 pages, in-8. He offers him his book “on 17th-century music. [History of Opera Before Lully and Scarlatti], in memory of all the pleasure you once gave me when, as a student at the École Normale, I read your articles in the *Revue Wagnérienne* with such ardent enthusiasm […] I hope you have retained the best of your enthusiasms and your hatreds; for they must have made you very happy, and I was happy for you.” He
Estimate €200 - €250 -
105 - Philippe-Paul, Count of SÉGUR (1780–1873), general and historian. Autograph manuscript; 4 folio pages. A working manuscript, heavily crossed out and corrected, for the first chapter of Book III of his *Campaign in Russia*, on Napoleon in Dresden. As is.
Estimate €60 - €80 -
105-1 - 1870 dispatch for delivery by carrier pigeon "Mr. Stéénackers, Director General of Telegraphs and Post Offices." 7 x 4 cm. Minor creases, tears. In an envelope marked: "Message sent by carrier pigeon in 1870. Donated by Mr. Jeannot on June 24, 1939"
Estimate €80 - €100 -
106 - Jules SUPERVIELLE (1884–1960) Autograph letter, June 7, 1922, to Édouard DUJARDIN; 2¼ pages, in-8 format. Regarding the *Cahiers Idéalistes*. He is back in Paris and cannot come to see him. “I would have liked to tell you in person how much I regret not being able to take charge of the *Cahiers Idéalistes* one day; financial considerations […] alone are currently preventing me from taking on your journal. There is currently a most serious crisis in Uruguay and the Argentine Republic, f
Estimate €150 - €200 -
107 - Charles-Maurice de TALLEYRAND (1754–1838) Letter, Paris, 8 Ventôse, Year VI (February 27, 1798), to Citizen Rivals, envoy of the French Republic to Hesse-Kassel; 2 pages, quarto size, printed text, vignette. Circular from the Minister of Foreign Affairs concerning “the loan authorized for the expedition to England.” Enclosed is a handwritten letter from Baron Alexandre de TALLEYRAND, Nevers, December 13, 1829, to Baron Hyde de Neuville. Also included is a printed copy of the will of Louis
Estimate €150 - €250 -
108 - Elsa TRIOLET (1896–1970) "With my thanks." Autograph manuscript addressed to Mrs. Monique Barreaud, who was her corset maker. 13 x 18 Yellowed paper and faded ink.
Estimate €60 - €80 -
109 - Gilbert VEILLARD (1899–1940) Patrick O'Reilly My Friend Gilbert, the African... A 127-page manuscript in a black cloth-bound folder.
Estimate €150 - €250 -
110 - Giuseppe VERDI (1813–1901) - DISDERI Photograph with autographed music and dedication; 28 x 20 cm mounted on a card measuring 51 x 42 cm. A very beautiful and rare photograph of Verdi by Adolphe-Eugène DISDERI (1810–1890), signed by the photographer “Disderi phot.” Below the photograph, Verdi wrote out a line of music (music and lyrics), the opening of Manrico’s aria from *Il Trovatore*: “Sconto col sangue mio,” along with the dedication: “To Mr. Gaiffe, Paris, Dec. 14, 1853, G.
Estimate €1,800 - €2,000 -
111 - Émile ZOLA (1840–1902) Letter from the author, Médan, June 18, 1893; 1 page, in-8. He asks his correspondent to pay him the fifteen thousand francs owed to him and “to send them to my home in Paris, 21bis rue de Bruxelles, on Tuesday the 20th of this month, at half past one in the afternoon. Please make sure they are punctual, as I will be fully occupied”…
Estimate €300 - €400 -
112 - Postcard album featuring themes from North Africa, types, fairs, and miscellaneous items... Approximately 362 postcards. 35 x 39 cm Some minor wear.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
113 - Set of two postcard albums. Various themes, including Christmas cards and greeting cards (approximately 230 cards). 28 x 21 cm and 30 x 21 cm.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
114 - NADAR Studio Set of three photographs: Princess of Chimay Marquise of Avaray Countess of Pourtales Signed at the bottom. 29 x 18 cm - mount: 33 x 20.5 cm.
Estimate €200 - €300 -
115 - NADAR / PIROU / REUTLINGER... Photographic album consisting of a total of twenty-seven visiting cards, albumen prints mounted on cardboard. Circa 1860–1890s. Examples of attributed subjects: 1878 Paris World’s Fair, Barricade on Rue de la Paix (Paris), His Majesty Napoleon III Bonaparte, Sarah Bernhardt, Jacques Offenbach, Paul Verlaine, the Paris Commune, Adelina Patti, Victor Duruy, views of the 1878 Paris World’s Fair, Aurélien Scholl, Henry Becque, André Gill, Sully Prudhomme, Paul D
Estimate €300 - €600 -
116 - STUDIO TALBOT Lot of nine photographs of models for the Paquin, Béchoff-David and other houses. Glued to card stock. Signed in the margin. Size: 21 x 13 cm to 27 x 14 cm. Spotting, folds especially at corners and worn edges.
Estimate €50 - €80 -
117 - Set of two albums containing approximately 65 vintage photographs and color prints on the themes of Japan and India. Signs of wear and sun damage.
Estimate €450 - €500 -
118 - On the theme of Africa and Senegal, circa 1895–1900. Photographic album titled on the front cover “Senegal: Views and Types,” consisting of 37 photographic prints of the citrate type. Handwritten captions on the front of the montages Examples of subjects: Inauguration of the Faidherbe Bridge (Saint-Louis, July 14, 1897), a departure for Sudan, the quays of Saint-Louis, the Marine Infantry Barracks, the old and new Faidherbe Bridges, Government Palace and Gardens (Saint-Louis), a group of m
Estimate €300 - €500
About the sale
Sales Contact:
Christine BENOIST-LACAS - 01 48 01 91 12 - cbenoistlacas@drouot.com
The lots are available for viewingby appointment at the office located at 7 rue Drouot, 75009 Paris.
Appraiser:
Thierry BODIN: lesautographes@wanadoo.fr for lots 67 through 71, 74, 74 bis, 75, 76, 77, 79, 81 through 88, 90, 91, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 101 through 107, 109, 110.
Danyela PETITOT: dpetitot@wanadoo.fr for lots 3, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 25, 26, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37, 42, 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57.
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