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SAND Maurice (1823-1889). - Lot 134
SAND Maurice (1823-1889). MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Maurice Sand," with autograph corrections by GEORGE SAND, Mademoiselle de Cérignan, [ca. 1871]; 524 leaves in-8 (20.5 x 13 cm), in sheets, in a black cardboard box. (Some small cracks without missing, and traces of folds). Complete manuscript of a novel by Maurice Sand, extensively corrected by his mother. Started in September 1868 and completed in May 1871, the historical novel Mademoiselle de Cérignan will be refused by the Revue des Deux Mondes, and published in 1872 in the newspaper Le Temps. It will be published in volume in 1874 by Michel Lévy. Mademoiselle de Cérignan is the continuation of the short story André Beauvray, published in 1870 with Mademoiselle Azote by Michel Lévy, and briefly summarized at the beginning of the novel. We find the hero, Haudouin de Coulange (the provisional title of the novel was Le Colonel Haudouin), now a colonel, who is the narrator. He embarks with his men in Civita-Vecchia to participate in the Egyptian campaign. He falls in love with the blonde and beautiful Olympe de Cérignan, who has embarked with her father and brother Louis. Disembarked in Alexandria. Haudouin took part in the battles under the orders of Bonaparte against the Mamelukes. He saves a young Mameluke, the beautiful Djémilé, who becomes his prisoner, and to whose charms he soon succumbs, torn between his love for the blonde Olympe and the exotic charm of the brunette Djémilé. The loss of Djémilé will bring him back to Olympe. We learn that the one who passed for her brother was none other than Louis XVII, whom Carignan senior had escaped from the Temple to Egypt, from where he went to England to disappear into anonymity. Olympe resigned herself to see Bonaparte reign in her place. The manuscript, in black ink, presents numerous and important erasures and interlinear corrections, and traces of ample reworking with collage of new redactions (up to three or four fragments on the same page). It is divided into three parts, each signed. Except for a few tiny variants, the manuscript conforms to the published version. Only a few corrections by George Sand have not been retained. Her diary shows that George Sand worked assiduously on her son's novel from May 15 to June 16, 1871, alone or with Maurice. 130 pages bear the mark of her interventions: erasures and corrections, and entire sentences crossed out and redone. A touching testimony of the trust and complicity between George Sand and her son. First child of George Sand, Maurice will remain all his life very close to his mother whose passion for literature, theater and sciences he shares. Gifted for drawing, Maurice Sand frequented Delacroix's studio for several years. In 1864, he published his first novel Callirhoé. Ten years later, Mademoiselle de Cérignan was published. Provenance: Aurore Sand (Maurice's daughter); Christiane Smeets-Sand (Christie's Paris sale, April 28, 2008, n° 117).
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