Jean LORRAIN (1855-1906). 5 autograph letters signed. 7 pp. - Lot 583

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Jean LORRAIN (1855-1906). 5 autograph letters signed. 7 pp. - Lot 583
Jean LORRAIN (1855-1906). 5 autograph letters signed. 7 pp. in-12 and in-8. Nice and Paris, May 1905 - June 1906. Beautiful correspondence, two of the letters being written a few days before his death. In "the headache of the enormous work I am doing at the moment", he had forgotten his address, but his secretary, back in Paris, was able to find it. "Yes, I have read all the clippings relating to Jean Lorrain that you have been kind enough to devote to me, it is a unanimous eulogy, I am very proud of it and for you and for me". He will return to Paris but will not have time to see him. "If I told you the work I have done, you would feel sorry for me, it is frightening, and to say that one must buy one's freedom to live by this terrible slavery". He will do what he can to insert a passage from his pamphlet in various newspapers, but he has broken with those of the Rue de Richelieu [Le Journal] He must see Xavier Leroux. "He is more and more excited about the poem, I will keep you informed of everything we say. Here is one who also loves the people of Nîmes, I will tell you why. My theater! One never knows with Ollendorff. I sent him the good to print the preface before yesterday [] ". The last two letters, dated June 15 and 16, 1906 (he will die on the 30th), refer to two important events of his end of life: his trials and the medical appointment that will be fatal to him with professors Pozzi and Robin for a peritonitis. "Would you like to postpone our lunch on Sunday the 17th to Monday the 18th, powerful friends in high places have organized a lunch for this date, where I have to meet people who could not be more influential for my trial []". He gives her an appointment at the Lapérouse restaurant, and the next day writes her this final letter: "It's me again, I've come to put you off until Tuesday, don't blame me, it's this trial that has me in a panic, but Robin and Pozzi, other medical, social and political influences, want me to have lunch with them on Monday at noon and a half, at the Café de la Paix, to talk about my case. You understand the haste I have to see them and the importance of this lunch for me [] ".
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