"Car plus que jamais les gens me dégoûtent, sauf vous, naturellement. Je voudrais appuyer sur un bouton et détruire l'Humanité."

Signed autograph letter from Georges Auric addressed to Bolette Natanson. Two pages written in black ink on a folded sheet. Deletions and underlinings.
Fold marks inherent to mailing.
Very fine letter in which the composer dissertates on friendship: "I simply wanted to tell you this important thing. I recommend that you not invite [Florent] Schmitt nor any 'artist'. Otherwise, I declare myself incapable of resisting the vision of these evil geniuses. For more than ever people disgust me, except you, naturally. I would like to press a button and destroy Humanity. Then we will be at peace and I will tell you the truth about Art and the truth about all the things in which you have faith."
Auric also evokes music in this letter: "Only Ravel's waltzes are noble and sentimental."
Having evolved from her earliest childhood in artistic circles - she is the daughter of Alexandre and the niece of Thadée Natanson, the creators of the famous Revue Blanche - Bolette Natanson (1892-1936) befriended Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Georges Auric, Jean Hugo and Colette.
Passionate about couture, she left Paris for the United States with Misia Sert, great friend of Coco Chanel and was hired at Goodman. With her husband Jean-Charles Moreux, they created in 1929 the gallery Les Cadres on boulevard Saint-Honoré and frequented numerous artists and intellectuals. Their success was immediate and they multiplied projects: the creation of Winnaretta de Polignac's fireplace, the decoration of the château de Maulny, the layout of baron de Rothschild's private mansion, the creation of frames for industrialist Bernard Reichenbach and finally the realization of Colette's beauty institute storefront in 1932. Bolette Natanson also framed the works of her prestigious painter friends: Bonnard, Braque, Picasso, Vuillard, Man Ray, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, etc. Despite this meteoric rise, she took her own life in December 1936 a few months after her father's death.