Médan

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Local nameMédan
CountryFrance
DepartmentYvelines
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Médan (Yvelines)
  1. "Je désire simplement toucher au sujet dans mon livre, pour le besoin du petit drame commercial qui me sert de fable."
    Émile ZOLA

    "Je désire simplement toucher au sujet dans mon livre, pour le besoin du petit drame commercial qui me sert de fable."Autograph letter, signed, unpublished, addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, head of department at Le Bon Marché and advice for the writing of Au bonheur des Dames

    Médan 23 juin 1882|13.40 x 21.60 cm|1 page 1/2 sur un double feuillet - enveloppe jointe
    Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, written in black ink on a double sheet. Folds inherent to mailing. Envelope included.
    Important testimony to the colossal documentation work and the capital role of Emile Zola's informants in depicting his immense natural and social fresco.
    This letter was sent to Léon Carbonnaux, department head at Bon Marché who transmitted precious information to Emile Zola for the creation of the eleventh volume of the Rougon-Macquart series: Au Bonheur des Dames.
    Only two letters from Léon Carbonnaux to Emile Zola are known: they can be...
    €2,800
  2. "Vous avez eu l'obligeance de me donner certains détails sur l'inventaire. Vous m'avez dit qu'on choisissait le premier dimanche d'août, qu'on fermait les portes et que tous les employés s'y mettaient."
    Émile ZOLA

    "Vous avez eu l'obligeance de me donner certains détails sur l'inventaire. Vous m'avez dit qu'on choisissait le premier dimanche d'août, qu'on fermait les portes et que tous les employés s'y mettaient."Autograph letter, signed, unpublished, addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, head of department at Le Bon Marché and advice for the writing of Au bonheur des Dames

    Médan 16 novembre 1882|13.60 x 21.40 cm|2 pages sur un double feuillet - enveloppe jointe
    Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, written in black ink on a double sheet. Folds inherent to mailing. Envelope included.
    Important testimony to the colossal documentation work and the capital role of Emile Zola's informants in depicting his immense natural and social fresco.
    This letter was sent to Léon Carbonnaux, department head at Bon Marché who transmitted precious information to Emile Zola for the creation of the eleventh volume of the Rougon-Macquart series: Au Bonheur des Dames.
    Only two letters from Léon Carbonnaux to Emile...
    €3,000
  3. "Comment avez-vous pu vous laisser prendre à la plaisanterie imbécile du Panurge ?"
    Émile ZOLA

    "Comment avez-vous pu vous laisser prendre à la plaisanterie imbécile du Panurge ?"Very important autograph letter, signed unpublished, addressed to Léon Carbonnaux about the false publication of a pre-original of Au bonheur des Dames

    Médan 1er décembre 1882|13.60 x 21.40 cm|2 pages sur un double feuillet - enveloppe jointe
    Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - written in black ink on a double sheet and addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, department head at Bon Marché. Folds inherent to mailing. Envelope included.
    Only two letters from Léon Carbonnaux to Emile Zola are known: they can be consulted in the digitized preparatory file for Au bonheur des dames made available online by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. However, we know from this same file, which contains a long section entitled "Notes Carbonnaux," that this department head at Bon Marché provided Zola with a significant amount of information, particularly about employee customs, their remuneration, and...
    €4,500
  4. "mon seul but est le peu de vérité que nous réussirons sans doute à faire encore"
    Émile ZOLA

    "mon seul but est le peu de vérité que nous réussirons sans doute à faire encore"Autograph letter dated and signed about the Dreyfus Affair

    Médan, 10 avril 1898|13.50 x 20.50 cm|une page et demie sur un bifeuillet
    Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola, dated in his hand April 10, 1898. One and a half pages in black ink on a bifolium, addressed to Octave Mirbeau.
    Fold marks inherent to mailing, some foxing to outer margins.
    Published in his Correspondance, ed. B. Bakker, Presses de l'Université de Montréal et Editions du CNRS, 1978-1995, vol. IX, p. 186; bibliographers are divided on the identity of the recipient, and also propose his publisher Charpentier, who had remained at his side and played the role of bodyguard in February 1898, during the first trial.
    Immense missive from the writer as defender of justice, resilient and even cheerful after being...
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