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René DESTOUCHES

René DESTOUCHES

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  1. Portrait de René Destouches, oncle de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    (Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE) René DESTOUCHES

    Portrait de René Destouches, oncle de Louis-Ferdinand Céline

    circa 1930|12.50 x 17.80 cm|Photographie
    Rare photographic portrait of René Destouches, uncle of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
    Photographic enlargement in a probably later printing.
    Inscription "René Destouches" on the back.
    René Destouches remained employed all his life in various menial jobs following a serious fall from the top of the cliff at Sainte-Adresse. Céline devoted passages to him in Mort à crédit under the features of uncle Rodolphe: "Mais le plus cloche de la famille, c'était sûrement l'oncle Rodolphe, il était tout à fait sonné. Il se marrait doucement quand on lui parlait. Il se répondait à lui-même. Ça durait des heures. Il voulait vivre seulement qu'à l'air. Il a jamais voulu tât
    €1,700
  2. Portrait en pied de René Destouches, oncle de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, et sa femme
    (Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE) René DESTOUCHES

    Portrait en pied de René Destouches, oncle de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, et sa femme

    circa 1930|8.40 x 13.30 cm|Photographie
    Rare photographic portrait of René Destouches, uncle of Louis-Ferdinand Céline accompanied by his wife, Pauline Dauteville.
    Vintage gelatin silver print.
    Inscription "M. et Mme Destouches" ["Mr. and Mrs. Destouches"] on verso. One small corner loss and minimal creasing.

    René Destouches, brother of Fernand Destouches, married Pauline Dauteville, with whom he had two children. Céline borrowed his moonstruck character, inherited from a fall from the cliffs of Sainte-Adresse "il était tout à fait sonné. Il se marrait doucement quand on lui parlait. Il se répondait à lui-même" ["he was completely dazed. He would laugh softly when spoken to. He would answer h
    €1,500
  3. Portrait photographique de jeunesse du père de Louis-Ferdinand Céline accompagné de ses trois frères
    (Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE) (René, Georges and Charles DESTOUCHES)

    Portrait photographique de jeunesse du père de Louis-Ferdinand Céline accompagné de ses trois frères

    Paris circa 1875|13.20 x 21.80 cm|une photographie

    Original photograph mounted on rigid cardboard, showing Fernand Destouches, father of writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline (top right) posing alongside his brothers René, Georges and Charles - from top to bottom and left to right.
    Edges of the rigid cardboard slightly bumped.
     
    This portrait of the four Destouches brothers in uniform with laurel collar, dates from their happy schoolboy years at the Le Havre lyceum. The photograph, a true incarnation of a carefree and bygone past, must undoubtedly have held importance in the eyes of the four brothers, who would reproduce as adults the exact pose of this childhood portrait for a second, family portrait, preserved in the collection of Fran

    €3,000
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