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MISTRAL Frédéric (1830-1914).

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MISTRAL Frédéric (1830-1914).
9 autograph MANUSCRITS, 8 signed (with his name or pseudonyms)| 155 L.A.S. "F. Mistral" (or cards), plus 3 dictated letters to Madame, 1859-1913, of which 17 in Provençal.
Important set of manuscripts and letters of the félibre.
Manuscripts.
* Autograph sonnet signed "F. Mistral", À la Roumanìo (in Provençal), with French translation opposite, À la Roumanie, on the back of a L.A.S.
[to Francis Maratuech], Maillane 22 May 1880 (3 p. in-8): "Voici pour le Feu follet", with a recommendation from the Provençal poet Joseph Roux.
It is a tribute to the rebirth of Romania: "Quand lou chaple a pres fin..." (When the carnage has ended...).
* Autograph manuscript, En avant Pierre lou trin (in Provençal, with 2 lines in French) (1 p. in-4 on the back of an announcement of 29 May 1891): story of a beggar at the Marseilles station.
* Autograph manuscript signed "Mistral" (in the 3rd person, in Provençal) (5 p. in-4, one of which is on the back of an announcement of November 5, 1892): crossed-out and corrected text on the statue of Estienne, "lou Tambour d'Arcolo" (the drum of Arcole), in Cadenet.
* Autograph manuscript signed "Mèste Franc", À Na Severino (in Provençal) (2 p. pasted together on the back of a fragment of announcement of December 18, 1893). Response to an article by Séverine, "Les Vêpres languedociennes" about the Aigues-Mortes affair (the massacre of Italian workers by Frenchmen, all of whom were acquitted on December 30, 1893 at the Assizes of Angoulême)... [Published in L'Aïoli, January 7, 1894] * Autograph manuscript signed "Gui de Mount-Pavoun" (signature crossed out), La Gramatico prouvençalo (in Provençal) (3 p. in-4): an account of Koschwitz's Grammaire historique de la langue des félibres, which puts the literary language of the félibres within the reach of all... [Published in L'Aïoli, June 27, 1894] * Autograph manuscript signed "F. Mistral", La Chanson des aïeux, Maillane 27 March 1906 (4 p. in-8): translation of a Provençal song: "Honneur à nos aïeux - si sages, si sages!"...
* Autograph sonnet signed "F.M.", Au banquié Morgan (in Provençal), on the back of a L.A.S. to Honoré Dauphin, Maillane 3 April 1908 (1 p. in-4 and 1 p. in-8). It is a request to the banker Morgan: "Dias nosta mar d'azur i' a 'no fado Mourgans..." * Autograph manuscript signed "F. Mistral", "Prouvençau, veici la Coupo..." (in Provençal) (1 p. in-8): first stanza and refrain of La
Cansoum de la coupo [composed in 1867].
* Autograph manuscript signed "Mistral" (in the 3rd person, 1 p. in-12): fragment of a speech on the foundation of the Félibrige: "On May 21, 1854, seven young Provençal poets, Aubanel, Brunet, Giéra, Mathieu, Mistral, Roumanille, and Tavan, went to the castle of Fontségugne, near
Châteauneuf de Gardagne (Vaucluse), and in the enthusiasm of a joyful banquet, amidst trees and flowers, founded the institution of the Félibrige, destined to uplift the race of the Midi by the cult of its language and its national letters...
Correspondence.
Letters addressed to Juliette Adam (to greet the author of Un rêve sur le divin: "the seer has become a believer"), Jean Ajalbert (2), Paul Arène, Joseph Aurouze, Anatole Belval-Delahaye (2, greeting the journal Les Loups and its "young militants of living poetry"), Jules Bois (2, including one about the Couple futur, "the Art of loving the coming woman"), Batisto
Bonnet, Adolphe Chavanier, Noël Clément-Janin (2, including a reply to his homage to the Museon Arlaten), Amédée Collet (about the distribution of the Trésor du félibrige), Charles Coran (2, including a very fine reply to his judgement on Nerto, plus one to his daughter), Ernest Daudet (4, about La Succession Chavet, Le Missionnaire, etc.), Albert Delpit (2), Mme Dislère (for the Société des Femmes de France), A. Dragon (2), Bertha Fauchon, Arnaud Ferrand (3, very cordial, "you are the first satirist of our southern literature"), J. Galand (2), A.
Gary, Philadelphe de Gerde (5, most of them to her addressed under her real name of Requier), Charles Gounod (recommendation of the drummer
Philippe Buisson), Alexandre Gueidon (to inquire about his biography of Peiresc), Emilia Julia (2, including one praising the poetry of this protégé of Lamartine), Julien Larroche (6, including one addressed to him as "secretary of the Hugophiles"), Georges Leygues (request to the Minister of Public Instruction), Hippolyte Maquan (2, including one about Sous les oliviers), Francis Maratuech (2), Henri Maréchal (presentation of the daughter of the late Roumanille), Édouard Marel (concerning L'Aïoli), Charles
Maurras (authorization to produce his portrait in La Plume), Eugène
Montfort, Paul Moulin (thanks on behalf of the ethnographic museum of Arles), Alexandre Mouttet, Lucien Paté (thanks for a sonnet), Eugène Plauchud (2, including one in verse, to the major of the Félibrige in Forcalquier), Henri de Pontmartin (condolences on the death of his father, Arman