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LOUYS Pierre (1870-1925)
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LOUYS Pierre (1870-1925)
Set of 8 autograph letters signed "P" including one unsigned, dated and undated [Arcachon] 14 August - Villa
Velléda 4 September [1911]| 20 pages small in-8 (180 x 135 mm) and 5 pages in-12 (156 x 112 mm), the 8 letters in violet ink on wove paper fi ligrané Ducal Crown of which one letter does not seem to be complete (cut out in the middle)| letters numbered "4" to "7", then "10", "11" and "14", 4 press clippings are attached, 2 of which are pasted on letter n°10 underlined in red pencil| an envelope addressed to Georges Louis as French ambassador in St. Petersburg (stamps, postmarks, Russian postmarks) on the extremely tense international situation, which does not seem to displease Pierre
Louÿs.
In these letters, there is also talk of his family, of Marie de
Régnier, of the code used by the two brothers, and of tourist guides: "The first bookseller in Arcachon is an old man assisted by his old wife. I asked him for the Joanne Guide "De la
Loire aux Pyrénées". It's the Joanne volume where Arcachon is.
He told me - that he didn't have it - that he had never had it - that his customers didn't ask for it...etç, etç. [...] there was a leather case containing the Joanne Guide to Egypt in three volumes. I laughed out loud when I remembered the look-alikes of the Arcachon booksellers: the old French booksellers in Cairo, between the Esbekien and the Rue du Cercle. They never had the
Guide to Egypt, but they certainly had "From the Loire to the Pyrenees".
Louÿs deploys a ferocious irony towards the Germans: "They do what one does in the slums. They half pull the dagger from the sheath and say. "How much are you paying?" That's low. - Here is a sentence made to receive Cambronne's two responses, the word and the rifle shot. You can't argue with these terms. [...]».
Monday August 21 [1911] : "[...] The German press (among all these duplicities) writes sincerely and wholeheartedly, with deep regret, a real disappointment: "We must resign ourselves to it: the French will never love us.
[...]" Tuesday August 22 [1911]. Louÿs fears too much indulgence towards Germany and would prefer an exchange of territories rather than a rectification of borders. He emphasized that France was now in possession of a large naval offensive force, and wondered about the future of Anglo-French relations and the attitude of the French ambassador in Berlin.
Set of 8 autograph letters signed "P" including one unsigned, dated and undated [Arcachon] 14 August - Villa
Velléda 4 September [1911]| 20 pages small in-8 (180 x 135 mm) and 5 pages in-12 (156 x 112 mm), the 8 letters in violet ink on wove paper fi ligrané Ducal Crown of which one letter does not seem to be complete (cut out in the middle)| letters numbered "4" to "7", then "10", "11" and "14", 4 press clippings are attached, 2 of which are pasted on letter n°10 underlined in red pencil| an envelope addressed to Georges Louis as French ambassador in St. Petersburg (stamps, postmarks, Russian postmarks) on the extremely tense international situation, which does not seem to displease Pierre
Louÿs.
In these letters, there is also talk of his family, of Marie de
Régnier, of the code used by the two brothers, and of tourist guides: "The first bookseller in Arcachon is an old man assisted by his old wife. I asked him for the Joanne Guide "De la
Loire aux Pyrénées". It's the Joanne volume where Arcachon is.
He told me - that he didn't have it - that he had never had it - that his customers didn't ask for it...etç, etç. [...] there was a leather case containing the Joanne Guide to Egypt in three volumes. I laughed out loud when I remembered the look-alikes of the Arcachon booksellers: the old French booksellers in Cairo, between the Esbekien and the Rue du Cercle. They never had the
Guide to Egypt, but they certainly had "From the Loire to the Pyrenees".
Louÿs deploys a ferocious irony towards the Germans: "They do what one does in the slums. They half pull the dagger from the sheath and say. "How much are you paying?" That's low. - Here is a sentence made to receive Cambronne's two responses, the word and the rifle shot. You can't argue with these terms. [...]».
Monday August 21 [1911] : "[...] The German press (among all these duplicities) writes sincerely and wholeheartedly, with deep regret, a real disappointment: "We must resign ourselves to it: the French will never love us.
[...]" Tuesday August 22 [1911]. Louÿs fears too much indulgence towards Germany and would prefer an exchange of territories rather than a rectification of borders. He emphasized that France was now in possession of a large naval offensive force, and wondered about the future of Anglo-French relations and the attitude of the French ambassador in Berlin.