Manuscrit autographe complet (hormis le premier et court couplet de 4 lignes) de la chanson de Boris Vian intitulée "Ave Maria des pêcheurs"

Autograph manuscript nearly complete, the first couplet of 4 lines being absent, on a perforated sheet, of 36 lines, written in pencil, of the song entitled "Ave Maria des pêcheurs".
On the entire verso of this manuscript, Boris Vian copied out, still in pencil, 9 quotations from Paul Valéry extracted from his "Mauvaises pensées & autres" ["Bad Thoughts & Others"] for which he indicated pagination: "Un chef est un homme qui a besoin des autres, 208" ["A leader is a man who needs others, 208"] - "Ce qui est simple est toujours faux. Ce qui ne l'est pas est inutilisable. (ib. p 143)" ["What is simple is always false. What is not is unusable. (ib. p 143)"] - "Le grand triomphe de l'adversaire est de vous faire croire ce qu'il dit de vous" ["The great triumph of the adversary is to make you believe what he says about you"] ib. p 82. - "Un homme sérieux a peu d'idées. Un homme d'idées n'est jamais sérieux. (ib. p 108)..." ["A serious man has few ideas. A man of ideas is never serious. (ib. p 108)"]...
Our set is completed, on a perforated sheet of the same dimension, by an autograph manuscript of about fifty lines of this song that Boris Vian abundantly corrected and which presents variants with the final text.
Finally, we include, on two perforated sheets, one of which pasted onto flexible cardboard, two complete typescripts of the "Ave Maria des pêcheurs" as well as a photocopy of the manuscript score.
Fine set whose music was composed by Henri Salvador between 1958 and which he performed in 1979.
Provenance: Fondation Boris Vian.