Georges COURTELINE. L.A.S., Paris, January 29, 1920, to Louis Barthou; 2pages small in-4 at his address43, avenue de St Mandé, XIIe.
He no longer has the manuscripts of Boubouroche or La conversion d'Alceste. In any case, La conversion d'Alceste is only a "licence assignment; nothing more; even then, it's only half successful, the characters speaking Boileau's language and not Molière's". He returns to the discovery, made by the Isère departmental archivist, of a signature by Molière on the baptismal certificate of a son of Mlle de Brie, in Grenoble in August 1852...
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Georges COURTELINE. L.A.S., Paris, January 29, 1920, to Louis Barthou; 2pages small in-4 at his address43, avenue de St Mandé, XIIe. He no longer has the manuscripts of Boubouroche or La conversion d'Alceste. In any case, La conversion d'Alceste is only a "licence assignment; nothing more; even then, it's only half successful, the characters speaking Boileau's language and not Molière's". He returns to the discovery, made by the Isère departmental archivist, of a signature by Molière on the baptismal certificate of a son of Mlle de Brie, in Grenoble in August 1852...

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€200 - €250
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Not sold
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30%
Georges COURTELINE. L.A.S., Paris, January 29, 1920, to Louis Barthou; 2pages small in-4 at his address43, avenue de St Mandé, XIIe. He no longer has the manuscripts of Boubouroche or La conversion d'Alceste. In any case, La conversion d'Alceste is only a "licence assignment; nothing more; even then, it's only half successful, the characters speaking Boileau's language and not Molière's". He returns to the discovery, made by the Isère departmental archivist, of a signature by Molière on the baptismal certificate of a son of Mlle de Brie, in Grenoble in August 1852...
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