Pierre LOTI. Manuscript signed, [Above all, let us never for - Lot 291

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Pierre LOTI. Manuscript signed, [Above all, let us never for - Lot 291
Pierre LOTI. Manuscript signed, [Above all, let us never forget!], and 15 L.A.S., 1915-1918 and n.d., to Élisabeth de Caraman-Chimay, Comtesse Greffulhe, or to her sister Geneviève de Caraman-Chimay, the general of Tinan; 3 pages in-fol., 39 pages small in-4, most of them mourning or to her motto Mon mal m'enchante and 1 page in-12 with address. Beautiful set around the invaded Belgium and its sovereigns. Signed copy of his war report of August 1, 1915, for the first anniversary of "the shameless violation of Belgian territory", the "most abominable crime that has ever sullied human history", with praise from King Albert and Queen Elizabeth [text collected in La Hyène enragée, XV (Calmann-Lévy, 1916 )]. Rochefort Saturday [24 ? July 1915]. Sending of the autograph passage of the report about Queen Elizabeth, to find out if the Queen approves its publication... Thursday morning [July 29?]. Sending of a new copy: "what I say is only an attenuation of what I had already said and in which I have brought into play the idea of fatality, so ingeniously imagined by the Countess Greffulhe"... Paris Friday [July 30?]. "I knew well that the sentence I wrote down was serious, although I would have attenuated it a little by saying that Her Majesty's eyes had become misty with tears.... August 6, 1916: "I had a special edition made for our Queen, of the raging Hyena; but I intended, before offering it, to have it bound, to put a dedication on it, and especially to accompany the sending of a letter requesting permission. But I was on the front, in the armies of the East"; he was "dismayed to learn that my publisher, believing he was doing the right thing, had hastened to send the volume himself, as it was, through the Belgian Legation! "... Aux Armées 9 June [1917], thanking for the charming hour on Sunday: "I found your sovereign even more exquisite than at my first audience. And me, I was quite bad, wasn't I? I was aware of this and it trivialized me e
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