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JAMMES Francis (1868-1938).

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JAMMES Francis (1868-1938).
Autograph manuscript signed, entitled "Deuxième série de Prières ", Orthez, [1898-1899]. 10 pages and a half in-4, clipping, sewn with red thread in a notebook (some marginal lacks without affecting the text, erasures, corrections, brown spots).



Collection of six poems, conceived as a continuation of the Quatorze Prières (Orthez, impr. Faget, 1898). The first piece, Prière pour qu'un animal qui souffre, meure, dated December 23, 1898, bears at the head the mention: "(Quinzième prière) " (it was published in 1947 by R. Mallet in Prends nos vieux souvenirs). Jammes then inserted the Prayer to obtain the Earthly Paradise (cut from the magazine La Terre nouvelle). Follows : Prayer before a beautiful landscape (insert, pasted into the notebook with gummed paper), dated September 1898 (it appeared in the journal Durendal in October 1898)| the manuscript of the Prayer to obtain the Terrestrial Paradise (see clipping above)| Prière pour demander l'apaisement (last part of the poem published in its long version in 1995 in the complete poetic work)| Prière de fin d'année| and Prière pour remercier Dieu de ce que je n'ai plus de maîtresse, dated January 1899 (both collected in Prends nos vieux souvenirs).Jammes then inserted the Prière pour obtenir le Paradis terrestre (cut from the magazine La Terre nouvelle). Follows : Prayer before a beautiful landscape (insert, pasted into the notebook with gummed paper), dated September 1898 (it appeared in the journal Durendal in October 1898)| the manuscript of the Prayer to obtain the Terrestrial Paradise (see clipping above)| Prière pour demander l'apaisement (last part of the poem published in its long version in 1995 in the complete poetic work)| Prière de fin d'année (Prayer for the end of the year)| and Prière pour remercier Dieu de ce que je n'ai plus de maîtresse (Prayer to thank God for the fact that I no longer have a mistress), dated January 1899 (both collected in Prends nos vieux souvenirs). We will quote the beginning of the introductory poem: "The poor horse is in the stable all day, Because he lost his master. One hears him chewing straw, sadly, in the darkness. Oh, make him die, my God. Why always this horrible suffering in this humble animal?"...