Claude FARRèRE (1876-1957). 6 L.A.S. and 14 L.S. (including - Lot 243

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Claude FARRèRE (1876-1957). 6 L.A.S. and 14 L.S. (including - Lot 243
Claude FARRèRE (1876-1957). 6 L.A.S. and 14 L.S. (including 2 partly autographs with diagrams), and 1 P.S., Paris or Saint-Jean-de-Luz 1926-1949, most of them to Jean Pasqua, at the Comptoir mondial d'assurances; 32 pages in-4 or in-8. A signed photo, in academician's habit, is attached. Curious correspondence with his insurer, to note a collision with a cyclist, then the next day, with a plane tree, or again, with a truck, "stopped too abruptly in front of my bonnet" (September 17, 1926)... His policy seemed to him "three times too strong" (May 21, 1928)... Insignificant" damages after hitting a taxi (April 11, 1929), whose driver was in bad faith... Two accidents: he ran over a cyclist, and the day after, "my car capsized with great violence following a skidding accident. The bodywork was completely shattered and a door torn off. I had with me my friend Mr. Pierre Benoit, the eminent novelist. Mr. Pierre Benoit was thrown several meters away, and got up with a rather deep wound in his right hand, and various contusions in his leg, shoulder and chest" (October 9, 1929) . He was grazed by a taxi in front of the Ambassadors' restaurant: "My left rear wing was slightly offended ... the taxi's occupants were rude. . the damage the taxi complained of was non-existent" (February 2, 1931).... Yesterday evening at the Bois de Boulogne he hit a motorcyclist, who fell; Farrère did not notice the accident at all. "I had felt a shock, and thought [...] that my right rear road had hit a sidewalk" (June 1, 1934?)... Another collision with a taxi... Disappointed to find herself soon without insurance... A bus got into his car last week, and yesterday, at the Bois de Boulogne, it hit a "very old jalopy" which took a curve too short and which he wanted to overtake: "I am in my fault" (March 22, 1937)... He was "victim" at a crossroads in the Bois, and by chance, the "honest man" he had hit in March "came up to me, shook my hand, and jokingly told me that this alley was cer
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