"J'ai lu le très bel "églogue" La Mort de Narcisse dont j'ai fort admiré la hautaine poésie et le large souffle dramatique."

Handwritten signed letter addressed to the poet Jean-Marc Bernard: “I read the very beautiful “eclogue” La Mort de Narcisse whose haughty poetry and dramatic breath I admired very much.“ Handwritten signed letter from Renée Vivien addressed to Jean-Marc Bernard, written in violet ink on a double leaf of paper decorated at the head with a border of violets. Transverse folds from having been sent.
“Monsieur, J'ai lu le très bel "églogue" La Mort de Narcisse dont j'ai fort admiré la hautaine poésie et le large souffle dramatique. Mes très sincères félicitations. Renée Vivien.” “Monsieur, I read the very beautiful “eclogue” La Mort de Narcisse whose haughty poetry and dramatic breath I admired very much. My very sincere congratulations. Renée Vivien.”
Jean-Marc Bernard was one of the founders of the poetic, satirical and monarchist magazine Les Guêpes which welcomed contributions from Paul-Jean Toulet and Francis Carco, among others. Together with the latter two, he was part of the École fantaisiste, a collective of young poets eager to break with the Parnassians and symbolists and whose ambitions were soon to be swept away by the arrival of the Great War. Jean-Marc Bernard lost his life on the front line, destroyed by a shell at the age of thirty-three.