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BRETON André (1896-1966)

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BRETON André (1896 - 1966)
Autograph poem signed "André Breton", Hommage, March 1914| 1 page in-4 on a lined sheet extracted from a notebook
Youthful sonnet in homage to Francis Viélé-Griffin.
It appeared in La Phalange of March 20, 1914, with two other poems: it is the first publication of texts by André Breton. This manuscript, offered to Paul VALÉRY, is, until today, the only known copy of this poem. It will be collected in the first book of André Breton, Mont de Piété, in 1919.
"Rais de soleil ou paille blanche ?
The hand does not glean - one would know it -
In her hair with regret
The gold with the sudden liking of the branch"... (Small cracks in the fold repaired)