"Il me semble que vous me deviez bien cela, pour ma peine..."

Autograph letter dated April 8, 1911 and signed by the dandy count, of two pages on one recto-verso sheet (19 lines), written in black ink inviting his friend Henri Lapauze and his wife for an Easter luncheon, on the 18th of the current month, at his property in the Landes near Vic-Bigorre.
Robert de Montesquiou, in order to secure his invited friend's decision and to facilitate his travel, offers to put a vehicle at his disposal. But before this proposed Easter meal, the poet plans to visit his friend very soon.
Henry Lapauze (1867-1925) was a journalist, art critic, then, in 1905, curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum and whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet, Henner, Falguière collections with, at the twilight of his life, a clear predilection for the Decorative Arts of which he was one of the ardent promoters.