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GUITRY Sacha (1885 - 1957)
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GUITRY Sacha (1885 - 1957)
36 L.A.S. "Sacha Guitry" then "Sacha", [Paris and Honfleur 1900-1902], to Olympia VAN REYSEN| 90 pages various sizes, mostly in-8 with address or envelope.
Very beautiful love correspondence to his first love, a young actress, begun in his sixteenth year. We can only give an overview.
[Olympia VAN REYSEN, born in 1880 in Brussels of Dutch parents, lived in Enghien with her mother and her sister Olga| she made music and painting in miniature, and studied diction| her teacher introduced her to Sarah Bernhardt, through whom she met Lucien
Guitry, and then of his young sons: Jean courted Olga, and Sacha (still a boarder at Passy) Olympia| she was invited to the Château du Breuil for the vacations, and became, it seems, Lucien Guitry's mistress in 1906| she acted in the theater under the pseudonym of Olympia REdzé]. 1900. 61 rue de Passy [November?] She promised to come to L'Assommoir on Saturday evening: "I will be there and I will see you with pleasure, to arrange something for Sunday. I will have a box for the evening, and the three of us will go, you, Borrel and I. Answer me if yes please. (I am collecting important autographs.) I respectfully kiss both your hands"... 1901. [January 1], letter of greetings| he hopes to see her on Saturday evening or Sunday following her arrival. "And I kiss you (ah! it is allowed on January 1). A thousand good kisses from Sacha Guitry". [January ?]: "Why do you continue to be a fish? What do you say about my play? - Don't you want to come with me, Saturday night? Send me, I beg you, before Saturday 4 o'clock, an appointment for the evening. [...] I have very important things to tell you"... [January 14]. "Thank you, thank you a thousand times, my beloved little Olympia, for coming with me yesterday. You gave me a great pleasure| and I hope it will happen again.
Keep your promise [...] to send me your picture... and to Borrel too.
[Yesterday was the most beautiful day of my life [...] 100,001 kisses"... January 18: "Thank you, for your dispatch Olympia darling whom I love, you cannot know, the joy that she made me. Ah! I would like to prove to you that I really have much affection for you". He will wait for her on the platform of the train of Enghien... [January 24]: "Thank you my beloved for your photograph, indeed it is not very resembling, but could the best photographer in the world ever give me the real illusion of your beauty?
No - never. And when one has seen the model, all his translations are unworthy. He promises the Odeon for Sunday, or failing that, the Bois, and he asks not for a dispatch, but "a letter, and please don't talk to me"... [29 January] : "You were delightfully kind yesterday, and you gave me two hours that I will never forget". He hopes to see her on Thursday to go to the Bois. "I adore you more and more I kiss you on your lips with all my heart"... [January 31], he hopes to see her on Sunday, and awaits her dispatch before leaving "the box" on Saturday. "I adore you more and more. I kiss you very hard on your cute little mouth"... February 8, poem of 4 quatrains, The Rose and the Caterpillar : "Olympe is the flower, /
I am the caterpillar"... February 14 : "So it is true that you are angry with me [...]. Be very sure of this : 1° it is that you make me an immense sorrow 2° that if you are angry with me I will never change, I will always love you as much, and if ever you need me, I remain 61 rue de Passy"... [February 17] : "Would you be angry again ? No. Tomorrow I am free all day, and the evening too.
I'm having lunch tomorrow at Dad's. You can telegraph if you want to come with me in the afternoon. If you can come to the Place Vendôme 26 you will see him, or tell me an appointment"... [21 February] : "Can it really be, my dear, that everything is over between us, if the fault is on my side, I sincerely apologize| but it has been so painful to see you so indifferent to me [...]. I ask you one last time to forget everything, and I beg you on my knees to come with me on Sunday. [...] Do you allow me to kiss you again, ah! you will never know what I love you [...] Since yesterday I have been crying in front of your picture!"... [February 23]: "I am the happiest of all mortals, not one less. Thank you for coming yesterday, never
Adventuress has ever looked so charming to me. - But why did you leave so early, my friends were sorry"... He only takes his eyes off her picture to write to her. "I adore you, I am the earthworm in love with the star and if we get married we will make little glow worms. [...] Give me your little pink lips... Oh! there nobody sees us............ Ah!...
Thank you!"... [February 23], appointment at the Variety Theatre| he will then get rid of Haubourdin, "and we will go alone in the car. I adore you more and more and I kiss you with all my heart on your arms that I love"... [March 1st], see you
36 L.A.S. "Sacha Guitry" then "Sacha", [Paris and Honfleur 1900-1902], to Olympia VAN REYSEN| 90 pages various sizes, mostly in-8 with address or envelope.
Very beautiful love correspondence to his first love, a young actress, begun in his sixteenth year. We can only give an overview.
[Olympia VAN REYSEN, born in 1880 in Brussels of Dutch parents, lived in Enghien with her mother and her sister Olga| she made music and painting in miniature, and studied diction| her teacher introduced her to Sarah Bernhardt, through whom she met Lucien
Guitry, and then of his young sons: Jean courted Olga, and Sacha (still a boarder at Passy) Olympia| she was invited to the Château du Breuil for the vacations, and became, it seems, Lucien Guitry's mistress in 1906| she acted in the theater under the pseudonym of Olympia REdzé]. 1900. 61 rue de Passy [November?] She promised to come to L'Assommoir on Saturday evening: "I will be there and I will see you with pleasure, to arrange something for Sunday. I will have a box for the evening, and the three of us will go, you, Borrel and I. Answer me if yes please. (I am collecting important autographs.) I respectfully kiss both your hands"... 1901. [January 1], letter of greetings| he hopes to see her on Saturday evening or Sunday following her arrival. "And I kiss you (ah! it is allowed on January 1). A thousand good kisses from Sacha Guitry". [January ?]: "Why do you continue to be a fish? What do you say about my play? - Don't you want to come with me, Saturday night? Send me, I beg you, before Saturday 4 o'clock, an appointment for the evening. [...] I have very important things to tell you"... [January 14]. "Thank you, thank you a thousand times, my beloved little Olympia, for coming with me yesterday. You gave me a great pleasure| and I hope it will happen again.
Keep your promise [...] to send me your picture... and to Borrel too.
[Yesterday was the most beautiful day of my life [...] 100,001 kisses"... January 18: "Thank you, for your dispatch Olympia darling whom I love, you cannot know, the joy that she made me. Ah! I would like to prove to you that I really have much affection for you". He will wait for her on the platform of the train of Enghien... [January 24]: "Thank you my beloved for your photograph, indeed it is not very resembling, but could the best photographer in the world ever give me the real illusion of your beauty?
No - never. And when one has seen the model, all his translations are unworthy. He promises the Odeon for Sunday, or failing that, the Bois, and he asks not for a dispatch, but "a letter, and please don't talk to me"... [29 January] : "You were delightfully kind yesterday, and you gave me two hours that I will never forget". He hopes to see her on Thursday to go to the Bois. "I adore you more and more I kiss you on your lips with all my heart"... [January 31], he hopes to see her on Sunday, and awaits her dispatch before leaving "the box" on Saturday. "I adore you more and more. I kiss you very hard on your cute little mouth"... February 8, poem of 4 quatrains, The Rose and the Caterpillar : "Olympe is the flower, /
I am the caterpillar"... February 14 : "So it is true that you are angry with me [...]. Be very sure of this : 1° it is that you make me an immense sorrow 2° that if you are angry with me I will never change, I will always love you as much, and if ever you need me, I remain 61 rue de Passy"... [February 17] : "Would you be angry again ? No. Tomorrow I am free all day, and the evening too.
I'm having lunch tomorrow at Dad's. You can telegraph if you want to come with me in the afternoon. If you can come to the Place Vendôme 26 you will see him, or tell me an appointment"... [21 February] : "Can it really be, my dear, that everything is over between us, if the fault is on my side, I sincerely apologize| but it has been so painful to see you so indifferent to me [...]. I ask you one last time to forget everything, and I beg you on my knees to come with me on Sunday. [...] Do you allow me to kiss you again, ah! you will never know what I love you [...] Since yesterday I have been crying in front of your picture!"... [February 23]: "I am the happiest of all mortals, not one less. Thank you for coming yesterday, never
Adventuress has ever looked so charming to me. - But why did you leave so early, my friends were sorry"... He only takes his eyes off her picture to write to her. "I adore you, I am the earthworm in love with the star and if we get married we will make little glow worms. [...] Give me your little pink lips... Oh! there nobody sees us............ Ah!...
Thank you!"... [February 23], appointment at the Variety Theatre| he will then get rid of Haubourdin, "and we will go alone in the car. I adore you more and more and I kiss you with all my heart on your arms that I love"... [March 1st], see you