" Voici un quatrain lapidaire..." [joint] Calque original du quatrain destiné à orner le linteau de sa cheminéeSigned autograph letter and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant
Also included is a signed autograph quatrain by Mallarmé on a card, the one later inscribed on the mantelpiece:
« Ici le feu pour renaître
Tantôt durable ou charmant
Comme l'amitié du maître
Mêle du chêne au sarment. »
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector, and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourt brothers, he devoted a work to them and served as Edmond’s secretary and executor.
A fine letter in which Mallarmé evokes the composition of a quatrain to adorn Delzant’s mantelpiece: « Je suis
