Lot n° 19
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Roger FAURE (1899-1940) architect. 45 L.A.S.... - Lot 19 - Ader
Roger FAURE (1899-1940) architect. 45 L.A.S. (mostly "Roger"), 1930-1939, to Colette Steinlen (Mme D.-E. Inghelbrecht, then Mme Roger Désormière) and Roger Désormière; plus 11 L.A.S. (and 3 fragments) from Colette Steinlen and 2 L.A.S. from Roger Désormière to Roger Faure; about 133 pages, various sizes, most of them in-4.
Beautiful and long friendly and musical correspondence.
The architect Roger Faure, who died for France in 1940, was a great friend of Colette Steinlen and of musicians, as shown by this rich correspondence, often addressed to Colette and Déso. In it, he talks about their group of friends: Igor Markevitch (who adds a few lines on a letter), Henri Sauguet, Darius Milhaud, the dancer and choreographer Léonide Massine, etc ; Colette's house in Jouy-la-Fontaine, the vacations at La Roche aux Moines near Savennières, Désormière's music and his activity as a conductor (especially for film scores), their passion for nature and literature, or his service in a heavy artillery regiment of the French army, especially at the end of 1939. We will quote only a few of these beautiful letters
"My dear Colette, a small word of affection simply because I think too much of you. I turn over in my head sad things. Your double sorrow: that you are not happier, and that you feel fiercely unhappy with Déso whom you love [...] I think of your solitude and how your thoughts always collide with the mystery of Déso's isolation [...] in the grip of strange contradictions [...] I doubt that anyone would dare to attack his isolation. (Faure to Colette, March 13, 1931).
"I have been thinking a lot about Déso lately. The prosecution of the Communists - or rather everything that preceded it - must have been a painful experience for him. [The destruction of what one has loved and sought to serve must be a terrible ordeal - for a heart like his"... (Faure to Colette, October 2, 1939).
"The description of your country life is charming, which does not prevent me from wishing it would end (not the description, the life - what a misery for me this blur with syntax), I need your presence too much, first of all out of affection and then also for the movement you bring into life, here is a statement that is not lacking in cynicism. I am of the parasitic race, the one who lives on what others bring, left to my own initiative I become a marmot. This is the case at the moment. Perhaps you didn't know that yet. Helleu, the bookseller on Boulevard St. Germain, has organized a small Steinlen exhibition for which he has collected works about Paris [...] meanwhile, poor Déso, already completely exhausted, was spending ten hours in the studio. What a week for him - days and half nights sitting at a table orchestrating other people's music, it's a dirty job after all [...]. Fortunately, this week will be less busy: the Wiener orchestration is finished, recorded yesterday, and there are still Madame Bovary and two sessions for Lac aux Dames". (Colette to R. Faure. December 6, 1933).
"I have nothing specific for this winter, Wiéner has given me hope, Vandal, from the firm of Vandal and Delac, for whom I made two films this winter: Poil de carotte and L'Homme à l'Hispano, having spoken of me in what seems to be enthusiastic terms at Fox [...] Bunuel has not been able to free himself from his work and I think that we are going to give up on the tour of the Auvergne and the South of France that we had planned together"... (Désormière to R. Faure, Vichy [1932]).
Enclosed is a typed copy of a letter from Faure to his mother (May 19, 1940, eight days before his death at the front.
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