ROSTAND Maurice (1891-1968) poète. - Lot 194

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ROSTAND Maurice (1891-1968) poète. - Lot 194
ROSTAND Maurice (1891-1968) poète. 3 L.A.S. "Maurice Rostand", 1920, to Joseph BÉDIER; 11 pages in 8 with his figure (mourning). Beautiful letters about Bédier's election to the Académie Française to replace Edmond Rostand. He learned this news with a profound sweetness: "The chair where I had seen my father sit, in one of the most beautiful days of my childhood, was thus going to pass to another. What a definitive break with the past this could be? [...] His soul and his poetry are still alive, since it is you who continue them. You who succeeded our dear Gaston PARIS at the Collège de France, it seems to me providential and sacred that you succeed the writer who is dear to me among all at the Académie Française! [...] On the threshold of this serious hemicycle where Death protects the meetings, the poet of the Distant Princess makes a gesture of welcome to the poet of the Novel of Tristan and it is Mélissinde herself who, from her distant island, comes to welcome your imperishable Yseult "... October 16, 1920, he is in Cambo-les-Bains where he has been working on a novel and a play that Sarah BERNHARDT will create this winter. He evokes "the one whose place you will soon mark in this mysterious posterity where true geniuses are tested", and proposes to him to come to Cambo, "this fierce and sad country [...] where my father led Gaston Paris [...] this Arnaga which is also one of my father's poems"... He sent her a copy of La Princesse Lointaine and La Dernière Nuit de Don Juan... "I expressed to Mrs. Sarah BERNHARDT the desire I had for a meeting between her and you. It seems to me that you would like to hear her speak about my father [...] she has known, better than many, the quivering greatness of this being, and [...] she has as if brushed, on the stage, the wings of his dramatic genius"... 2 L.A.S. from Jean ROSTAND, thanking Robert de Flers for his article on La Dernière Nuit de Don Juan, and asking for the Théorie mathématique du Bridge by Émile Borel (1940).
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