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DEBUSSY Claude (1862-1918)

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DEBUSSY Claude (1862-1918)

L.A.S. "Claude Debussy", [March 1912, to Charles MORICE]| 1 page in-8 with its monogram.
About a ballet project inspired by Verlaine's Fêtes galantes.
He was late in thanking "for sending Verlaine, I am prey to a stupid flu, and therefore: utterly idiotic! Your idea is charming...
I think that in order to find something of the color of the 1st Painting, the carnival could be of the same period, where there were so many pretty picturesque? That's why Chevaux de Bois seems to me too close to us and a bit Belgian? But we'll find something better"...