Paul FORT. Signed autograph manuscript, The only useful thin - Lot 253

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Paul FORT. Signed autograph manuscript, The only useful thin - Lot 253
Paul FORT. Signed autograph manuscript, The only useful thing in the world; 2 and a half pages in-8. Enclosed is the L.A.S. of sending this text to André Parinaud (May 11, 1952); and the small poster woodcut by Anna Diriks for the Banquet offered to Paul Fort on Thursday, February 9, 1911 (42 x 31 cm, without margin, small slits). Text published in 1952 in the magazine Arts in the form of a letter to its director, André Parinaud. "You kindly ask me, in the name of your Arts, what was my major impression, when several of my friends from Lettres wanted to celebrate, at a recent dinner, my 160th birthday? - 160, because other friends, those in a hurry, already celebrated my 80th birthday last year. ...] My major impression? Is that at their age, the Methuselah poets must not despair of anything... I was very moved, simply, to hear many literary glories approve of my old life. Some of them filled me, praising in me the trouvère-tout France, among which (which made me particularly happy, and I don't mind my modesty!) the illustrious and most varied aedes from many countries, and those venerable Masters of the lyric speaking of France grouped around Salmon and Klingsor, to the surrealists, friends of my friend this great and loyal André Breton and of J.-L. Bédouin, Benjamin Péret "...Etc.
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