Carte postale autographe signée et adressée à sa chère soeur Jane

Autograph signed photographic postcard from Paul-Jean Toulet (19 lines in black ink) addressed to his sister Jane to whom he gives family news.
The postcard depicts the entrance to the main street of Monfort-en-Chalosse in the Landes.
An opium-addicted and inveterate alcoholic dandy, a poet unknown to the general public but admired by his peers, notably by José Luis Borges, Paul-Jean Toulet was a novelist (Monsieur du Paur, Mon amie Nane) but above all a master of poetic prose. His masterpiece Contrerimes, a collection of quatrains published after his death combining enclosed rhymes and crossed metrical structure, assured him posthumous success and inspired his poet friends including Francis Carco and Tristan Derème who, taking him as a model, proclaimed themselves "whimsical poets". Confessing that what he had loved most in the world were women, alcohol and landscapes, he died of a laudanum overdose, a substance derived from opium.