MORICE (Charles), unpublished correspondence of 62 letters a - Lot 239

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MORICE (Charles), unpublished correspondence of 62 letters a - Lot 239
MORICE (Charles), unpublished correspondence of 62 letters addressed to Jeanne de TALLENAY. A poem and a handwritten text are attached. One sees in the course of the correspondence the feelings of its author evolving until letters ending with "I love you"... This correspondence covers the years 1898-1908. Charles Morice (1860-1919) is a French writer, poet and essayist. In 1896 he married Élisabeth Fournier de Saint-Maur, widow of Count Joseph Vien and mother of a Gabrielle, known as By, who under the pseudonym Marie Jade published a novel with little-improved keys for her father-in-law. But her financial difficulties lead her to accept all kinds of work, investigations, secretarial work, organizing exhibitions, and take her away from literature. In October 1896 he moves to Brussels with his wife. He gave lectures, published articles in the newspapers and his wife gave piano lessons. His son Albert is born in 1897. From 1899 to 1901 he teaches at the Université nouvelle de Bruxelles. With the lawyer Charles Dejongh, he founded "L'Action humaine" where he campaigned against the death penalty. In 1901, he returned to Paris. He wrote the legal column in "Le Matin" and the modern art column in the "Mercure". He was Rodin's secretary and collaborated on his book "Les Cathédrales". He collaborates in "Paris-Journal", where he introduces Giraudoux, Alain-Fournier. When Gauguin began to write the report of his first stay in Tahiti, not very confident in his qualities as a writer, he asked Morice, then in Brussels, to revise the manuscript of "Noa Noa". Exceptional together.
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