Émile BERNARD (1868–1941). 2 autograph poems and a manuscript; 2 pages in-4 and 1 page in-fol. Sonnet to Michelangelo: “God, to invite Man to the spectacle of Heaven”… (1 page in-4 with cross-outs and corrections). – On the reverse, a sonnet to Versailles: “O Palace where, amid Gold, Frescoes, and Mirrors”… (1 p. in-4, crossed out with two lines, with the note “published ’49”). Note dated July 6, 1940, hailing the armistice and the German victory: “By an extraordinary turn of events, bordering on a miracle, France, which seemed lost, is suddenly saved. Suddenly cut off from England, she finds her salvation in Germany, which she believed to be her greatest enemy”… Etc. Enclosed is the catalog for the Émile Bernard exhibition at the Galerie Contemporaine (April 1942).