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QUENEAU Raymond.
MANUSCRIT autograph "Raymond Queneau", "Le baron Jean Mollet"..., [1963]| 3 pages and a quarter in-4
(27 x 21 cm) with erasures and corrections.
Preface for Les Mémoires du Baron Mollet (Gallimard, 1963).
Raymond Queneau pays tribute to "His Magnificence" the "Baron" Jean
MOLLET (1877-1964), then Vice-Curator of the Collège de Pataphysique, of which
Queneau is Satrape. Baron Mollet was a familiar figure to the Parisian elite from the 1900s until his death. His memoirs provide a rich panorama of the literary and artistic life of this period.
"Baron Jean Mollet, who was Apollinaire's secretary, was never a baron, nor was he a secretary [...] He always lived by the belief that the future is nothing and the past only a few shiny spangles that sparkle in the palm of one's hand and that one looks at with the gravity of a smile. As for the present... well, a man who can testify that he has done all his life what he liked and that alone, one can only bow. Such a resolute practice of pleasure is then combined with courage: see Petronius. You have to read the pages of these Memoirs on the 14-18 war and the Salonika expedition: it's Stendhal during the Russian campaign. But I will not let myself be carried away by my enthusiasm and arouse the irony of the baron. [...] I salute and I keep silent".
The typescript is attached| the Bulletin Gallimard of December 1963 announcing the book| and a press clipping (obituary article by Roger Grenier in Dimanche Soir, 1964).
MANUSCRIT autograph "Raymond Queneau", "Le baron Jean Mollet"..., [1963]| 3 pages and a quarter in-4
(27 x 21 cm) with erasures and corrections.
Preface for Les Mémoires du Baron Mollet (Gallimard, 1963).
Raymond Queneau pays tribute to "His Magnificence" the "Baron" Jean
MOLLET (1877-1964), then Vice-Curator of the Collège de Pataphysique, of which
Queneau is Satrape. Baron Mollet was a familiar figure to the Parisian elite from the 1900s until his death. His memoirs provide a rich panorama of the literary and artistic life of this period.
"Baron Jean Mollet, who was Apollinaire's secretary, was never a baron, nor was he a secretary [...] He always lived by the belief that the future is nothing and the past only a few shiny spangles that sparkle in the palm of one's hand and that one looks at with the gravity of a smile. As for the present... well, a man who can testify that he has done all his life what he liked and that alone, one can only bow. Such a resolute practice of pleasure is then combined with courage: see Petronius. You have to read the pages of these Memoirs on the 14-18 war and the Salonika expedition: it's Stendhal during the Russian campaign. But I will not let myself be carried away by my enthusiasm and arouse the irony of the baron. [...] I salute and I keep silent".
The typescript is attached| the Bulletin Gallimard of December 1963 announcing the book| and a press clipping (obituary article by Roger Grenier in Dimanche Soir, 1964).