Remy de GOURMONT (1858-1915). Autograph manuscript... - Lot 197 - Ader

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Remy de GOURMONT (1858-1915). Autograph manuscript... - Lot 197 - Ader
Remy de GOURMONT (1858-1915). Autograph manuscript signed, Epilogues, [1900]; 6 pages and a quarter small in-4, and 10 pages and a half in-8, with some erasures and corrections. Two chronicles for the Mercure de France. * [May 1900], in 3 parts: La Porte Binet (on the architecture that triumphed at the Exposition Universelle and in particular on the Porte Binet with its "scaled marmite style, casserole style, scaphander style"...); La Boite du Ciel (on the prohibitive rates and delays in mail delivery by the Post Office); and Un nouveau Don Quichotte (on the victory "against nothing" won by Colonel Douglas in the Boer War). * September 1900], in 4 parts: On some anarchist, socialist or pietist thinkers (on Jean Jaurès who "always seems to roll a rosary of coconuts between his fingers" and on the nonsense issued by socialist thinkers, notably about a possible natural paradise...), The two regicides (about the assassins of the Shah of Iran and the King of Italy), The Sultan of Sokoto (in Sokoto as in China, they refuse the presence of missionaries...), Literary property (reflections on copyright and on the commercial value of literary works, citing the examples of Stendhal, Balzac and Goethe)...
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