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PERGAUD Louis (1882-1915) écrivain

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PERGAUD Louis (1882-1915) écrivain

TWO autograph MANUSCRIPTS signed "Louis Pergaud", [1909-1914]| 22 and 5 infol pages. (heavy wetness on the left margins with missing in the first ms).
La Tragique histoire de Goupil. This long animal short story was published in the Mercure de France of October 16, 1909, before opening the collection De Goupil à Margot (Mercure de France, 1910), which won the Prix Goncourt| it is dedicated "To the painter Jean-Paul Lafitte". It recounts the misadventures of a fox taken prisoner by a poacher who ties a bell collar around its neck, which will lead the poor animal, panic-stricken, hungry, refrigerated and emaciated, to certain death on the evening of Christmas, terrorising in turn his executioner: "the haggard eyes, the legs stiffened by death and frozen by the cold, the skin half peeled [...], the eyes of the fox, the paws stiffened by death and frozen by the cold, the skin half peeled [...], the eyes of the fox, the legs stiffened by death and frozen by the cold, the skin half peeled [...]....] A gaunt, skeletal man stood there before him dead with the fatal bell around his neck".
He will go, "eyes vague and full of terror", to bury him in his forest, under the snow...
A small dwelling. This news was published in the Mercure de France of July 16, 1914, and collected in 1921 in Les Rustiques. Arsène Barit, known as Cacaine, is evicted from his house. The whole village, which hates him, the mayor in particular, denies him asylum, hoping he will leave.
He goes mad and threatens to take revenge.
His body will be found in the village cistern, poisoning the spring, with a farewell note: "You bastards [...] I found it anyway, my little lodging !
The manuscripts, carefully put in the net by Pergaud, were used for printing in the Mercure de France.
A curious P.A.S. of General
Charles BOURBAKI (1816-1897), Blaye September 21, 1894 (1 page oblong in-8) is attached: "Mademoiselle Antoinette, you are beautiful, you are good, God w