"Correspondence] Paul CLAUDEL (Villeneuve-sur-Fère 1868-1955 - Lot 184

"Correspondence] Paul CLAUDEL (Villeneuve-sur-Fère 1868-1955), French playwright, poet, essayist and diplomat, member of the Académie française. Correspondence comprising 44 autograph letters signed ""P. Claudel" or "P. Cl."" (except one, unsigned, with a few words in red ink), all addressed to Roger-Daniel Gasparetty, almost all with stamped envelopes addressed successively to boulevard Belfort or avenue Pasteur, Montreuil, boulevard Kellermann and rue Telles de la Poterie, Issy-les-Moulineaux. Paul Claudel's letters, written from his family home at Château de Brangues or rue Hoche, span the period from December 1936 to December 1944, and comprise 53 pages in-8, 8 pages in-12 and one half-page in-4. All the letters, including the two telegrams but excluding the last one, are accompanied by their typed copies. This important correspondence with his friend Gasparetty shows their bond of friendship, in which they discuss religion, literature and moral questions, and is a vast spiritual correspondence. It is accompanied by 10 typed copies of letters from Roger-Daniel Gasparetty, from July 1937 to August 1938, two typescripts and two further copies from January 1945 and 1946 from Victor Gasparetty." Expert: Cabinet Valleriaux contact@valleriaux.com Please ask for condition reports: they are not included in the descriptions. If you succeed in getting a lot(s), please note that your lot(s) will go to Drouot's Packing (magasinage) the morning after the sale. Please ask for condition reports before the sale: they are not included in the descriptions.