Henri BOSCO

Lettre autographe signée adressée à son ami Georges Raillard : "N'allez jamais à Béziers ! On y sent et pense vin. et quel vin ! Du 6 degré au plus.Sauf des rarissimes, les indigènes y sont xénophiles et brutaux. Figurez-vous qu'ils ont chassé de la scène manibus pedibusque militarisbusque la pauvre Giulietta Greco, elle-même, après le 1er couplet du fameux : Sombre dimanche ! Il est vrai que..."

Name: Henri BOSCO • Lettre autographe signée adressée à son ami Georges Raillard : "N'allez jamais à Béziers ! On y sent et pense vin. et quel vin ! Du 6 degré au plus.Sauf des rarissimes, les indigènes y sont xénophiles et brutaux. Figurez-vous qu'ils ont chassé de la scène manibus pedibusque militarisbusque la pauvre Giulietta Greco, elle-même, après le 1er couplet du fameux : Sombre dimanche ! Il est vrai que..." • Autograph • 1956
Brand: s. n.
SKU: 84487
Price: 400 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Henri BOSCO

S. n.|Lourmarin 23 Avril 1956|21 x 27 cm|un feuillet recto-verso + une enveloppe

€400

⬨ 84487

Autograph letter signed by Henri Bosco addressed to his friend and summer neighbor Georges Raillard (31 lines in green ink on a sheet recto-verso) from Lourmarin.
Fold mark inherent to mailing, envelope included.
The author of L'Âne culotte thanks Georges Raillard for his latest letter: "It arrived safely. But the article from that vile Canard, no. Didn't see it. Neither 6, nor 3 columns. Nothing. No doubt some hidden jealous people (or the illustrious Giono, my neighbor) intercepted it and threw it in the fire. Sad."
Henri Bosco recounts his automobile wanderings through the south of France: "We reached Millau - and the Rouergats - They have cordiality, gloves ... I gave up pursuing into Guéret, through 450km of hairpin turns. Retreated to Lourmarin, amid the clouds, the rains, torrentially."
He will also have to travel across France for the signing of his latest work and allows himself this warning for his friend: "Never go to Béziers! One smells and thinks wine there. and what wine! 6 degrees at most. Except for the very rare ones, the natives there are xenophobic and brutal. Would you believe they chased poor Giulietta Greco herself from the stage manibus pedibusque militarisbusque, after the 1st verse of the famous: Gloomy Sunday! It's true that..."