Humoristique bande dessinée originale au feutre noir mettant en scène son célèbre personnage Monsieur Virgule se rendant chez une prostituée chez laquelle il contracte une maladie vénérienne après la lecture des oeuvres de Jean-Paul Sartre

Humorous original comic strip drawn in black felt-tip pen illustrating Monsieur Virgule visiting a prostitute so that she might read him some works by Jean-Paul Sartre, Monsieur Virgule then rushing to the urologist suffering from a venereal disease despite these chaste readings.
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Monsieur Virgule was Carlo Rim's creation for "Les nouvelles littéraires" in the 1930s and later for "Les Lettres françaises" after 1945.
Manuscript notes by Carlo Rim in pencil and red pencil on the verso of the strip.
Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author of "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, a filmmaker and was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary.