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RENOIR Auguste (1841-1919) peintre impressionniste.

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RENOIR Auguste (1841-1919) peintre impressionniste.
L.A.S. to Téodor de Wyzewa. Cagnes, May 8, 1915. 2 pp. two-sheet in-12 oblong.
Renoir thanks Wyzewa for sending his book, The New Germany.
(...) In France one is not very familiar with the mentality of this strange people, and I think it will have a great effect. He regrets not having seen him since| I would have had so many things to tell you. When will this cruel illness that gnaws at you and prevents you from producing at your ease end? Then Renoir gave him news of his son
Jean (the future filmmaker) who was wounded in battle. I only have to thank Providence that this bullet did not hit him a centimeter higher.
It entered through the thigh and exited through the buttock, breaking the femur.
God be praised for having been kind enough to preserve it for me. I am very stunned by this horrible war but I am bearing it as well as I can (...)