Marc BERTHOMIEU (1906-1991). Autograph musical manuscript signed, Rovère et Angisèle, conte lyrique [1954]; one folio volume (36 x 26.5 cm) of [2 ff.]-223 pages; half-fauve morocco binding. Complete manuscript of this opera or conte lyrique. A lyrical tale by Michel Juncar based on a prose tale by Albert Samain, it is set in three acts and nine tableaux. It does not appear to have been performed, but may have been broadcast (a note from the Service de la Radiodiffusion is pasted on the title page). The manuscript bears SACEM stamps dated February 17, 1954. The introductory pages list the characters and paintings. The action takes place in 16th-century Italy and Courland. The characters are : Angisèle, princess of Courlande (soprano), Viola countess Madori and her husband Madori, Fleur de la Mer, Angisèle's sister, Rovère duc de Spolète (high baritone), Teremente, navigator and friend of Rovère, Domitio and Porphyre, young lords and friends of Rovère, the pages Bentivoglio and Schifanoïa, a troubadour, Fra Giacomello, fishermen's wives, sailors, and a ballet. Act I. 1st scene: an upper room in the Rovère palace. 2nd: a terrace overlooking the port of Spoleto. 3rd: a garden in the Rovère palace. Antique-style banquet, served around a statue of Dionysus. Act II. 4e: the interior of a caravel's stern castle. 5th: a wild coastline in the Curonian Spit. 6th: Angisèle's room, in the Curonian Spit castle. 7th: Crucifixa's bedroom. Act III. 8th: the interior of a fisherman's hut in the Curonian Spit. 9th: the deck of a caravel; the Italian sky. Note: these nine visions are set elements in a cyclorama. Manuscript of the vocal and piano score, in midnight-blue ink on 14-line paper; some timings are indicated, as are numerous didascalies. A few passages are crossed out with a light pencil stroke for cuts. Act I (p. 1-85); Act II (p. 86-178); Act III (p. 179-223). Enclosed are 3 autograph manuscripts (11 pages in-4): an instrumental Prelude, an aria by Rovère, and the transposition of the 1st aria from Fleur de la Mer. Plus a cut-out for a radio selection (2 p. in-4). La Tendre Alyne ou l'Amour en dentelles, opéra-comique in 3 acts based on the comédie galante by Michel Carré and Paul Gaulot, musical manuscript partly autograph of the vocal and piano score (102 ff. in-fol., half-fauve morocco binding), partly by a copyist with insertions of autograph modifications and additions and printed songs (SACEM stamp of Nov. 6, 1953).