[Guy DE MAUPASSANT] G. de M. À la feuille... - Lot 404 - Marie-Saint Germain

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[Guy DE MAUPASSANT] G. de M. À la feuille... - Lot 404 - Marie-Saint Germain
[Guy DE MAUPASSANT] G. de M. À la feuille de rose. Maison turque, Comédie de mœurs (mauvaises), in one act in prose, first performed in Paris in 1875 [René Bonnel and André Bottin] Paris, 1945. First edition. In-8 of 69 pages, 2 ff. n. ch., filled cover in pink paper printed in red. Illustrated with 3 original lithographs in colour, one of which is a double with a window, placed in the frontispiece. Limited edition of 225 copies, one of 160 on Ingres. The copies are numbered at the compositor. Pascal Pia specifies that the lithographs are the work of an artist from Nice. André Bottin was a bookseller in Nice when René Bonnel moved there to retire. We met his son who was still working in 1999 and told us about the creation of this book by his father and Bonnel. In 1978, when writing his bibliography devoted to L'Enfer, Pia was careful not to specify the name of the publisher, which he knew. Dutel specifies: "First edition of this free play that Edmond de Goncourt qualified as "bastardy", published in Nice in 1945 by André Bottin. It includes an unsigned preface by Pierre Borel. [...] The play written by Maupassant and some of his young friends, including Robert Pinchon, was performed twice in Paris with a restricted committee. The first time on April 13, 1875 in Maurice Leloir's small studio, quai Voltaire. Maupassant and Pinchon played several roles. Octave Mirbeau and Maurice Leloir were also part of this troupe. At the second and last performance, on 31 May 1877, in the studio of the painter Becker, 26, rue de Fleurus, the audience was packed: in addition to Flaubert and Tourgueniev, who had already seen the play, there were Maupassant's father, Émile Zola, Goncourt, etc., and eight elegant women, including Valtesse de la Bigne (Nana), and Suzanne Lagier, the singer at the Alcazar, who left at the end of the first scene... " Pia 1, Inferno 1464, Dutel 938.
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