"Ispahan où nous étions ensemble est toujours aussi émouvant."

Autograph postcard signed by Maurice Béjart addressed to André-Philippe Hersin, on the verso of a photographic reproduction showing the trembling minarets of Isfahan.
The choreographer sent this postcard from Iran, where he created in 1971 under the patronage of Empress Farah Pahlavi his ballet Golestan (The Rose Garden), and in 1974 at the Shiraz festival his ballet Mallarmé III, to music by Pierre Boulez. It would also be during this period that Béjart is said to have converted to Islam after meeting Dariouche Safvate, eminent Kurdish Sufi musician.