[Victor HUGO]. Juliette DROUET (1806-1883). L.A.S. "Juliette", October 6, Saturday [1849], to Victor Hugo; 4pages in-8. She begins by complaining that she would have better spent her time going to Saint-Mandé [to see her daughter] than waiting for Victor. When he arrives, she interrupts herself: "The doorbell is ringing, it's you, what happiness! Then she resumes in the evening: "I can never part from you without it feeling like an atrocious mystification. I'll never get used to not being with you all the time, so much I need to see you all the time. I saw you working earlier and respected your work by not breathing a word. I'm so happy to have you with me [...] to have you here and to know that your dear, lovely little carcass isn't the first Olympus to want to take it when it's no longer being looked after. Besides, you should attach me especially to this service, and you'd see more Cornu than naked bodies, I can assure you"...
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€800 - €1,000
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€1,040
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30%
[Victor HUGO]. Juliette DROUET (1806-1883). L.A.S. "Juliette", October 6, Saturday [1849], to Victor Hugo; 4pages in-8.
She begins by complaining that she would have better spent her time going to Saint-Mandé [to see her daughter] than waiting for Victor. When he arrives, she interrupts herself: "The doorbell is ringing, it's you, what happiness! Then she resumes in the evening: "I can never part from you without it feeling like an atrocious mystification. I'll never get used to not being with you all the time, so much I need to see you all the time. I saw you working earlier and respected your work by not breathing a word. I'm so happy to have you with me [...] to have you here and to know that your dear, lovely little carcass isn't the first Olympus to want to take it when it's no longer being looked after. Besides, you should attach me especially to this service, and you'd see more Cornu than naked bodies, I can assure you"...
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