Autograph letters from painters, sculptors, musicians, choreographers, dancers, manuscripts, signed notes and postcards

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Cela fait bien longtemps que je te connaissais, mon coeur
Cela fait bien longtemps que je te connaissais
Et tu ne savais pas ce que c'est que d'aimer, mon coeur
Et tu ne savais pas ce que c'est que d'aimer

Si tu m'aimais
Si c'était vrai
Quelle surprise
Si tu voulais
Si tu venais
Quelle surprise
Si j'entendais
Dans l'escalier
Tes pas timides
Tes pas rapides
Qui se décident

Dans un quartier fréquenté par des gens argentés
Où le client ne boit que du whisky cent pour cent
Y'a un p'tit bar genre acajou...

Autograph postcard signed by Georges Polti addressed to poet Jean Ott, written in black ink (8 lines) on the verso of the photographic reproduction of a painting by Nicolas Lancret entitled "L'été".
Georges Polti wishes his fellow poet a prompt recovery as well as an excellent year 1913: "... je vous envoie toujours un peu de soleil : ce la ne peut nuire. Belle et saine et triomphale année !" ["... I always send you a little sunshine: this can do no harm. A beautiful, healthy and triumphant year!"]

Ink and watercolour portrait of the poet Paul Verlaine by his friend Marie Crance, bearing the artist's signature and the handwritten caption “Paul Verlaine à l'hôpital”.

A single sheet, presented in a frame with a mount. An inscription on the back of the frame—“written in the margin (by the framer): ‘For Messrs. Thénot and Lercey, 25 April 1894’”—provides a likely terminus post quem for the drawing.
 
Marie Crance (1860–1945), nicknamed Marie-aux-fleurs, was at the time the companion of the illustrator Frédéric-Auguste Cazals, whom she married in 1912. A laundress, maid, and occasional singer in the poet’s favourite...

Unique collection of documents (photographs, posters, etc.) and manuscripts relating to the confidential theatrical adaptation of Au beau rivage by an admirer from Le Mans of René Fallet.
In 1972, Claude-Denis Renard from Le Mans, a great admirer of René Fallet, contacted the latter so that he would accept a theatrical adaptation of his novel Au beau rivage published in 1970 and for which he received the Humor Prize. Animated by his usual kindness, the writer joyfully accepted, forgetting to inquire about the contingencies linked to the exploitation rights of the novel held by the production company Prothea, whose reaction was not long in coming...

Unpublished autograph letter signed by Max Jacob addressed to Fernand Pouey. One page written in black ink on a sheet.
Two transverse folds inherent to mailing.
Remarkable letter in which Max Jacob asks a strange favor of his friend: "Un de nos amis explose [sic] des tableaux 76 Fg St Honoré galerie Charpentier le 4 avril. J'ai des obligations à son endroit et je voudrais lui montrer des sentiments d'ailleurs plus ou moins sincères. Tu peux certainement signaler au critique d'art de la maison cette peinture sûrement honorable." ["One of our friends is exploding [sic] paintings 76 Fg St Honoré galerie Charpentier on April 4th. I have obligations...

"Léger comme une antilope / Il dansait, fumant son clope / Une java pleine de syncopes / Elle en eut le coeur cassé"

"Palmiers de Tahiti / Chansons des plages bleues / Soleil de Tahiti / Que j'étais heureux"

Amis que je vous raconte / La vie triste et pleine de honte / D'un horrible mécréant / Qui mourut voici cent ans / Doué d'une...

Original drawing dated and signed by Louis Pons, to his friend art critic Georges Raillard, specialist in the works of Joan Miro and Antoni Tapies, which he dedicated to him on the invitation card for the opening of the exhibition of his works at the Château de Vascoeuil on Saturday, March 29, 2008.
 Louis Pons drew, in black ink, on the recto and verso, a curious bird: a magpie huddled in on itself and apparently convalescent surmounted by this manuscript dedication: "Paris ? ? Mars 2008, j'espère que ta santé est meilleure. Amitiés de Nelly et Louis Pons." ["Paris ? ? March 2008, I hope your health is better. Friendship from Nelly and Louis...