Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Henri Lapauze évoquant leurs amitiés et inimitiés dans le monde des lettres et des arts : "... Si je n'ai pas lu votre critique de mon livre, en revanche, j'ai pris, connaissance de celle que vous avez consacrée à l'aimable jeune homme qu'il s'agissait de punir pour avoir dit trois fois ; au cours d'un dîner : Marie Murat. (peut-être aurait-il suffi de lui donner à copier septante fois sept fois...) "
S. n.|Artagnan 1908|20.50 x 26.50 cm|7 feuillets recto
Autograph letter signed by the dandy count, 68 lines written in black ink on seven folios recto, probably addressed to his friend and bibliographer, the critic Henri Lapauze:
"Artagnan,
My dear friend,
the interesting review (which I would very much like to know...) has escaped me. Can you send it to me; or, at least, a date indication that would allow me to find it? As for what you write to me about my "social successes," you don't think the first word of it (fortunately for us!) - otherwise, you would start by "not speaking to me" as Favre used to say; and you would be quite right. Well! in all things, one must consider not only the end, but the true and the false,
"Artagnan,
My dear friend,
the interesting review (which I would very much like to know...) has escaped me. Can you send it to me; or, at least, a date indication that would allow me to find it? As for what you write to me about my "social successes," you don't think the first word of it (fortunately for us!) - otherwise, you would start by "not speaking to me" as Favre used to say; and you would be quite right. Well! in all things, one must consider not only the end, but the true and the false,
€900