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LOUŸS Pierre (1870-1925).

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LOUŸS Pierre (1870-1925).

5 L.A.S. "P.L.", [1903-1917], to Maurice Sailland dit CURNONSKY| 8 pages in various formats, one address.
1903, with a press clipping on the nomination of Henry Marcel to the Beaux-Arts], offering him to "collaborate with a large Parisian newspaper, paying well, but serious as hell, [...] what kind of articles would you like to do"| it is a question of the "new Éclair where I believe I have a little credit"...-[Biarritz 20.IX.1906], on a telegram formula annotated: "Invaluable letter. Looking forward to what I will call "feverish" ... [1907] "SALOMÉ.- Your mouth! Let me fuck! Richard STRAUSS. Salome. 1907, in-4°, p. 64. Nothing could depict, dear friend, the dismay, the modesty, the scandal, the blush, the righteous indignation [...], in short, the amazement of all kinds that I plunged into when I read page 64 of Richard Strauss' score, piano and voice, French words and even slang. Check that there was in the text: "Let me kiss your mouth". My vast knowledge of the ultrahenan languages makes me assume that this was translated by: Lass' mich deinen Mund küssen or something like that. Hence it follows that Strauss would have wanted to keep the order of the words on which he had written his musical phrase. - Still, it's frightening. If now, in the modern theatre, young virgins answer the holy prophets: "Your mouth! let me fuck!", I will never console myself for having contributed to the abolition of censorship with one of those harmful articles where... Ah! misère!"...-Beauvais (header of the Grand Café du Châlet). After an amusing dialogue at a newsstand: "Fantasio is really the most gourde of all our periodicals, to go and photograph the named Prudhomme aux Mathurins, and so little resembling when it grows here like little patties in a flowerbed according to the beautiful metaphor of Mme de NOAILLES"... [28.I.1917], with annotated press clipping. "How is Your Lordship, Curnonsky, how is Your Lordship? Mine moved into the Hotel Vouillemont for two month