Lettre autographe signée adressée à Adrien Peytel

Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend, the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel, one page written in black ink on a double sheet with letterhead from the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole in Marseille.
A central fold inherent to the mailing of the letter.
Handsome letter addressed from Marseille while Colette was conducting a lecture tour: "I'm finishing my tour. I'll be in Paris on Sunday, and we'll take care of this matter, - which I still haven't understood anything about."
"In November 1923, she dealt with (...) a subject she knew by heart, Le Théâtre vu des deux côtés de la rampe. Her very young lover Bertrand de Jouvenel joined her in Marseille, at the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole. Scandal: Bertrand de Jouvenel was none other than the son of her second husband, the diplomat Henry de Jouvenel; guaranteed uproar around the fifty-year-old writer, while her husband's son had just celebrated his twentieth birthday. Colette had, two years earlier, initiated the future economist and political scientist into love, in this scandalous liaison which provided the theme and situations for Blé en herbe (published in that same year 1923)." (Rémi Duchêne, L'Embarcadère des lettres)