Florent SCHMITT (1870-1958). Autograph musical manuscript signed, La tortue et le lièvre, Fable, 1940; 6 fol. pages (35.5 x 26.5 cm). Melody for song and piano. The last piece in the Trois Chants avec piano ou orchestre op. 98 (Durand 1943), it is based on a poem by Charles Sanglier (published in the Revue de France on March 15, 1935): Entre le lièvre et la tortue Le pari que l'on sait fut fait à la nuit close... In F, at 2/4, it is marked Animé sans excès, and counts 147 bars. The manuscript, for voice (soprano) and piano, carefully notated in black ink on 24-line Durand paper, was used for the engraving of the edition; it bears section numbers in blue and red pencil. It is dated at the head Noël xliii and at the end Pyrénées viii-ix xl .