Jehan RICTUS. Autograph manuscript signed, Le Bel-Enfant. Fragment encore inédit de poème", September 1929, with L.A.S. d'envoi, January 26, 1931; 6 pages in-4 (small cutout on title page), and 1 1/2 pages in-8. 
Attached is a L.A.S. with drawing (2 p. in-8).

This important "fragment", which Rictus painstakingly copied down for the Attorney General Pressard, is accompanied by a letter, thanking the Attorney for his intervention on Rictus's behalf with the Minister... who doubled his pension... 
"Comme c'est doux, comme c'est beau / à voir, / le soir, / dans quelque modest famille, / le Bel-Enfant qu'on déshabille"...
Attached is a L.A.S. with drawing (2 p. in-8), in which Rictus complains about the upholsterer who gave him back a crude imitation of the armchair he had entrusted to him (with "Portrait du fauteuil", ink and blue pencil).
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Jehan RICTUS. Autograph manuscript signed, Le Bel-Enfant. Fragment encore inédit de poème", September 1929, with L.A.S. d'envoi, January 26, 1931; 6 pages in-4 (small cutout on title page), and 1 1/2 pages in-8. Attached is a L.A.S. with drawing (2 p. in-8). This important "fragment", which Rictus painstakingly copied down for the Attorney General Pressard, is accompanied by a letter, thanking the Attorney for his intervention on Rictus's behalf with the Minister... who doubled his pension... "Comme c'est doux, comme c'est beau / à voir, / le soir, / dans quelque modest famille, / le Bel-Enfant qu'on déshabille"... Attached is a L.A.S. with drawing (2 p. in-8), in which Rictus complains about the upholsterer who gave him back a crude imitation of the armchair he had entrusted to him (with "Portrait du fauteuil", ink and blue pencil).

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Jehan RICTUS. Autograph manuscript signed, Le Bel-Enfant. Fragment encore inédit de poème", September 1929, with L.A.S. d'envoi, January 26, 1931; 6 pages in-4 (small cutout on title page), and 1 1/2 pages in-8. Attached is a L.A.S. with drawing (2 p. in-8). This important "fragment", which Rictus painstakingly copied down for the Attorney General Pressard, is accompanied by a letter, thanking the Attorney for his intervention on Rictus's behalf with the Minister... who doubled his pension... "Comme c'est doux, comme c'est beau / à voir, / le soir, / dans quelque modest famille, / le Bel-Enfant qu'on déshabille"... Attached is a L.A.S. with drawing (2 p. in-8), in which Rictus complains about the upholsterer who gave him back a crude imitation of the armchair he had entrusted to him (with "Portrait du fauteuil", ink and blue pencil).
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