Fernand CROMMELYNCK (1885-1970). Autograph... - Lot 173 - Ader

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Fernand CROMMELYNCK (1885-1970). Autograph... - Lot 173 - Ader
Fernand CROMMELYNCK (1885-1970). Autograph manuscript signed "F.C." and L.A.S. of sending, Herblay May 26, 1951, [to Maurice Rostand]; 3 pages and a half in-8. "May these few lines be pleasant to you. I would have liked more and better; time has run out. This stammering badly translates my admiration for the play, my deep affection for you ". - Draft of a text on Maurice Rostand's play, The Man I Killed [from which Ernst Lubitsch made a film]: "to speak of it here, I feel the same emotion that I felt at its reading, nearly twenty-five years ago. Every great reader, every assiduous spectator, knows that among the hundreds of works proposed to his memory, very few are those that are fixed there and render, at each evocation, their whole virtue and, plenary, their essence. Their virtue is to touch, together and in the moment, the heart, the mind, the soul. Their essence is the genius of the author, his total gift of self. The memory that we keep of them has become organic to us. It makes us what we are"...
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