APOLLINAIRE Guillaume (1880-1918)

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APOLLINAIRE Guillaume (1880-1918)
Autograph quatrain signed "G.A.", dated "March 15, 1915"; 4 alexandrine verses, in brown ink on one in-4 page of squared paper, fold marks, paper uniformly yellowed, edges damaged. 1 correction. "As Didier Lombard, O Paul Lombard You watch standing on the tower this war Beware lest a council of the once civil Make in the twinkling of an eye a terrible brigand." This "epistolary poem" was addressed to the journalist Paul Lombard on March 15, 1915. Paul Lombard had collaborated with the Soirées de Paris, Apollinaire's magazine. Apollinaire dedicated a chapter of Le Poète assassiné to him. This quatrain appears in the "Poèmes épistolaires" of Apollinaire's OEuvres poétiques, Pléiade edition, p.827.
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