COLETTE. 2 L.A.S. "Colette", Paris [1928-1936], to "Kid" [Re - Lot 228

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COLETTE. 2 L.A.S. "Colette", Paris [1928-1936], to "Kid" [Re - Lot 228
COLETTE. 2 L.A.S. "Colette", Paris [1928-1936], to "Kid" [Renaud de Jouvenel]; 4 pages in-4 each (slits in the fold of the first one). Beautiful correspondence to his son-in-law: Renaud de Jouvenel (1907-1982) is the natural son of Henry de Jouvenel and his mistress Isabelle de Comminges known as "the Panther". 9 rue de Beaujolais [answered 18 March 1928]. Kid's letter suggests that he is not in an excellent moral state: "Being a "failure" at twenty years old... allow me to smile. You're twenty years old, you're on the verge of an effective majority, you don't have a serious illness, you're facing a rather tonic proportion of antagonism, - do you want to change with me? ...] This is a letter from a pawn, but a disinterested pawn. You know, or you can guess, that I have resurrected myself so many times, that (what a sentence!) I listen with astonishment and scandal, from a mouth of twenty years old, to disillusioned words. Perhaps it's natural, at your age you leave life so easily. But... poop for disillusioned people. Don't be one of those people ... She doesn't want to talk about The Birth of the Day, a book "full of neglect" despite its three sets of tests. "The ending isn't too bad because there are more letters from my mother"... And to end with the praise of his daughter... 33, Champs-Élysées [1936]. She thanks "Vieux Kid" for her bouquet and appreciates her book [Village X...]: "The last part, of course, is not the one I prefer. But before that, you stay, thank God, singularly a poet. If I wrote "Renaud's monologue", it would start with: "I'm a wild horse, without bit or bridle" and then he'd go on, gentle to the rhythm, and without much notice. You have a rare gift: your sensuality, even precise, is poetry "... He was told that the connivance of the knight and the horse was inherited: "Devil be of the c... who baptized your mother with the name of "panther", for what she was golden and irritable! The horse comes from her"... She is charmed that Re
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