Billet autographe signé de Gérard de Nerval adressé à Eugène de Stadler
Paris s. d. [après le 8 août 1854]|9.70 x 13.20 cm|une page sur un feuillet, enveloppe jointe
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Autograph note signed "Gérard" addressed to his close friend Eugène de Stadler. Envelope included. Folds inherent to posting. A small hole in the envelope, consequence of its sealing. This note has been transcribed in the correspondence published in the Pléiade edition (volume 3, p. 889). Astonishing and succinct note written just after his arrival at Doctor Blanche's, inviting his friend to dinner "à la meson (sic) Blanche" ["at the Blanche house"]. On the envelope, in an even more disordered handwriting than that of the note, one reads a few words in pencil: "J'ai donné à Antony et à Blanche [..] Mirecourt" ["I gave to Antony and to Blanche [...] Mirecourt"]. Gérard de Nerval had indeed discovered, a few months earlier, a pamphlet by Eugène de Mirecourt dedicated to him: "...j'ai trouvé la biographie sur l'étalage d'un libraire. Mirecourt m'a bien chargé. Il m'a peint en beau...et en buste. Je relèverai les erreurs quelque autre jour, mais il a trop parlé de ma misère" ["...I found the biography on a bookseller's stall. Mirecourt has really gone after me. He has painted me favorably...and in bust. I will point out the errors some other day, but he has talked too much about my poverty"] (Letter to Georges Bell of June 1, 1854).