Raoul PONCHON (1848-1937). 6 autograph manuscripts signed, G - Lot 496

Raoul PONCHON (1848-1937). 6 autograph manuscripts signed, Gazette rimée; 4 to 6 pages each in-8 or in-4. Beautiful set of six rhyming Gazettes. À la campagne, on the inconveniences of the countryside (14 sizains): "Ne pouvant admettre/ Que le thermomètre/ Ait perdu l'esprit"... - Impôt sur le revenu, on the proposed income tax; dedicated to Hugues Delorme (19 sizains): "Alors, quoi, mon Delorme?/ This Peytral piriforme/ Que voilà revenu,/ Rêve - s'il faut l'en croire/ D'un impôt vexatoire"... - Cochons de bois, on the Neuilly fair and its merry-go-round of wooden pigs (19 quatrains), suggesting replacing the pig with "the guitar without a neck / On which women do dada"... - Éloquence militaire (23 quatrains); published November 20, 1899. In it, Ponchon has General de Gallifet, Minister of War, justify the measures taken against several officers such as General Négrier and his role during the Commune: "Oui, messieurs, tout ce que j'ai fait/ J'ai cru le devoir faire"... - La Cigale et la Fourmi (13 quatrains), celebrating the talent of Coquelin Cadet, with erasures and corrections: "Certes, Cadet, ton génie". - Après l'Affaire, on the concord of the French after the verdict of the Dreyfus trial (78 verses): "Enfin arriva cette année/ Où l'Affaire fut terminée"... Attached is a fragment a.s. (end of another rhyming Gazette) and a calling card. Plus 2 L.A.S., [1897 and n.d.], to Catulle and Jane Mendès.