"Ainsi c'était donc vous les garçons en blouson dans les bois (que je savais par coeur sans jamais avoir eu trop souci de savoir quel était l'auteur) Merci de cette surprise"
Beautiful autograph letter dated and signed addressed to Pierre Seghers congratulating him on the high quality of his collection Le domaine public
S. n.|Paris 27 Mai 1945|14 x 21.50 cm|une page recto verso
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Laudatory autograph letter signed by Jean Paulhan (22 lines in black ink on Nrf letterhead) addressed to Pierre Seghers congratulating him on the beauty of his latest collection entitled "Le domaine public" which the poet had recently sent him. Fold mark inherent to envelope insertion. Jean Paulhan does not hide his admiration for certain poems contained in this collection and the style that emerges from it: "Ah j'aime bien aussi ma vérité, et dans tous vos poèmes cette solennité (tant pis, c'est le mot) cette solennité simple dont personne ne saurait dire d'où elle sort... il faut bien qu'elle ait toujours été là, avec cette allure de grande personne, de trop grande (presque) personne." ("Ah I also love my truth, and in all your poems this solemnity (too bad, that's the word) this simple solemnity of which no one could say where it comes from... it must have always been there, with this bearing of a great person, too great (almost) a person.") He concludes this laudatory missive with: "Merci de ce beau livre, Pierre, et affectueusement à vous." ("Thank you for this beautiful book, Pierre, and affectionately yours.")