VERLAINE Paul (1844-1896) Autograph poem... - Lot 42 - Pichon & Noudel-Deniau (Azur Enchères)

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VERLAINE Paul (1844-1896) Autograph poem... - Lot 42 - Pichon & Noudel-Deniau (Azur Enchères)
VERLAINE Paul (1844-1896) Autograph poem signed with his initials (s.l.n.d. [September 1894]). 1 p. folio. Mark of the collector Victor Sanson at the bottom left of the page. Sonnet strongly worked in view of the very numerous corrections, erasures. This poem was first titled "To Madame M. C, souvenir de la Matinée du X septembre 1894", published in Le Procope in October 1894. Then by Albert Messein in the Œuvres Posthumes (1911), without title, the addressee having changed. Then the poem appears in the manuscript of Varia, again without title. A version of this sonnet close to our manuscript, entitled " To Fernand Crance " [September 7, 1894]), is in the Cazals collection. Fernand Crance is the son of Marie Crance, known as "Marie-aux-fleurs", the companion of his friend the draftsman Frédéric-Auguste Cazals. Our manuscript is an intermediate version, it bears the initial "F" of the second dedicatee Ferdinand Crance and we note this variation, stanza 3, verse 1 "Et j' i fait ce sonnet qui n' st pas régulier ( )". In the manuscript of the Cazals collection the "not regular" is replaced by "regular point". Moving sonnet in which Verlaine sketches the silhouette of a little boy, of whom he wishes to be loved " The child had received two good eyes in the head: - Something hard and soft at the same time - Then he had still inherited a voice - Where the commandment was mixed with the party ( ) May he grow up, have for me, the old irregular, - Such feelings of frank and strong mercy, even! - And may the child live, so as not to forget him ( ) ". Poem published in Verlaine Œuvres poétiques complètes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, p 1019. Expert | Céline BERTIN
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