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GUITRY Sacha (1885-1957)
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GUITRY Sacha (1885-1957)
MADAME BERGERET, AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT| 9 pages in-4, in pencil on blue paper.
PRELIMINARY MANUSCRIPT OF THIS SHORT PIECE in one act and two tableaux, published in 1960 with this note: "This act is probably one of the last that Sacha Guitry wrote. It was in fact intended to be included in the film La Vie à deux (directed by Clément
Duhour after Guitry's death), but disappeared from the final version.
The pencil manuscript, with erasures, corrections and additions, shows variations with the published text| the ending is missing. A couple arrive in a large hotel, he in his austere fifties, she of the same age, "looking like a quilt". It is Antoine Bergeret, vice-president of the Academy of Sciences, one of the world's greatest scientists, and his wife. In their bedroom, an argument breaks out when
Madame Bergeret notices that her husband has crossed her name off the invitation card for the next day's gala, attended by the President of the Republic. You know, the President of the Republic," she tells him, "Fuck him. Bergeret reproaches his wife for her vulgarity| he is vice-president of the Academy of Sciences, and is going to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics: "For years now I have begged you a thousand times to improve your education and your training"...
MADAME BERGERET, AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT| 9 pages in-4, in pencil on blue paper.
PRELIMINARY MANUSCRIPT OF THIS SHORT PIECE in one act and two tableaux, published in 1960 with this note: "This act is probably one of the last that Sacha Guitry wrote. It was in fact intended to be included in the film La Vie à deux (directed by Clément
Duhour after Guitry's death), but disappeared from the final version.
The pencil manuscript, with erasures, corrections and additions, shows variations with the published text| the ending is missing. A couple arrive in a large hotel, he in his austere fifties, she of the same age, "looking like a quilt". It is Antoine Bergeret, vice-president of the Academy of Sciences, one of the world's greatest scientists, and his wife. In their bedroom, an argument breaks out when
Madame Bergeret notices that her husband has crossed her name off the invitation card for the next day's gala, attended by the President of the Republic. You know, the President of the Republic," she tells him, "Fuck him. Bergeret reproaches his wife for her vulgarity| he is vice-president of the Academy of Sciences, and is going to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics: "For years now I have begged you a thousand times to improve your education and your training"...