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FRANCE Anatole (1844-1924).
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FRANCE Anatole (1844-1924).
2 autograph MANUSCRITS, the 1st signed "Anatole France", [Vie de Jeanne d'Arc, 1892-1908] | 112 small leaves in-4 (20.5 x 16 cm), bound in a volume of midnight-blue morocco, boards strewn with gilded crosses, decoration continuing on the smooth spine with the title JEANNE D'ARC in gilded letters, interior framing punctuated with the same crosses at the corners, blue moire lining and endpapers, matching folder and slipcase (folder and slipcase slightly rubbed, signed René Aussourd)| and 92 leaves in-fol.
(36 x 25.5 cm) mounted on tabs in one folio volume, ivory vellum, triple gilt fillet framing the boards punctuated at the corners with lily flowers, smooth spine decorated in the same way (E. Carayon).
Precious collection of working manuscripts for the Vie de
Jeanne d'Arc.
Anatole France worked for over twenty years on this Vie de Jeanne d'Arc, with numerous texts appearing in newspapers and magazines, before the publication of the original two-volume edition in February and March 1908. These manuscripts bear witness to the enormous amount of work that went into finalizing the book.
A. The first manuscript, untitled, corresponds, with significant variants, to the beginning of the book. Written in cursive black ink, it contains numerous erasures and corrections. The discontinuous pagination, sometimes multiple and corrected, shows that
France reused and recast article manuscripts. - Early version of chapter I L'Enfance (ff. 1 to 25 plus bis and inserted ff. for notes), which begins: "De Neufchateau à
Vaucouleurs, la Meuse, encore maigre et libre, serpente dans la vallée largement ouverte"..., and which concludes: "Messire Guillaume
Frontey de Neufchateau, who had replaced Messire Jean Minet as curate of Domremy, used to say that Jeannette was a good Christian woman, and that he had never seen or owned a better woman than her in his parish". - Early version of chapter II, Les
Voix (ff. 1 to 64), beginning: "One summer morning, Jeanne was thirteen and emerging from childhood. She was playing that day in the meadow"... and ending as follows: "Sainte Marguerite and Sainte Catherine repeated: - Jeanne la Pucelle, daughter of God, go to France. And Jeanne shuddered, frightened to hear, without recognizing it, the echo of her thoughts, the voice of her soul".
The binding is signed René Gimpel del. and René Aussourd lig. René
Gimpel recalls his visit to bookbinder René Aussourd on January 6, 1931.
René Aussourd: "He has finally finished the binding of the few handwritten pages by Anatole France on Joan of Arc that I own, in which I have drawn golden crosses. He'd like me to draw the title for him, so I look, and suddenly I find, how strange, that Joan of Arc's name forms the cross" (Journal d'un collectionneur,
Hermann 2011, p. 626).
B. The second manuscript, also untitled, is paginated by A.
France from 114 to 202 (including 133 bis to quater). It corresponds to the writing of the second volume, of which he gives chapters XI (the beginning of which is missing) to XIV, dealing with Jeanne's trial through to La Pucelle's death| it ends as follows: "Fearing that certain people might collect Jeanne's remains and guard them as they guard the relics of the saints, the bailiff had them thrown into the Seine. The manuscript, in black ink, shows numerous erasures and corrections, with some passages crossed out| it was used for printing, but shows significant variants with the edition.
Many leaves are made up of cut-out and laminated fragments.
The prospectus for the deluxe edition (Manzi-Joyant, 1909-1910) is enclosed.
PROVENANCE: René GIMPEL (1881-1945)| then his son Jean GIMPEL (1918-1996).
2 autograph MANUSCRITS, the 1st signed "Anatole France", [Vie de Jeanne d'Arc, 1892-1908] | 112 small leaves in-4 (20.5 x 16 cm), bound in a volume of midnight-blue morocco, boards strewn with gilded crosses, decoration continuing on the smooth spine with the title JEANNE D'ARC in gilded letters, interior framing punctuated with the same crosses at the corners, blue moire lining and endpapers, matching folder and slipcase (folder and slipcase slightly rubbed, signed René Aussourd)| and 92 leaves in-fol.
(36 x 25.5 cm) mounted on tabs in one folio volume, ivory vellum, triple gilt fillet framing the boards punctuated at the corners with lily flowers, smooth spine decorated in the same way (E. Carayon).
Precious collection of working manuscripts for the Vie de
Jeanne d'Arc.
Anatole France worked for over twenty years on this Vie de Jeanne d'Arc, with numerous texts appearing in newspapers and magazines, before the publication of the original two-volume edition in February and March 1908. These manuscripts bear witness to the enormous amount of work that went into finalizing the book.
A. The first manuscript, untitled, corresponds, with significant variants, to the beginning of the book. Written in cursive black ink, it contains numerous erasures and corrections. The discontinuous pagination, sometimes multiple and corrected, shows that
France reused and recast article manuscripts. - Early version of chapter I L'Enfance (ff. 1 to 25 plus bis and inserted ff. for notes), which begins: "De Neufchateau à
Vaucouleurs, la Meuse, encore maigre et libre, serpente dans la vallée largement ouverte"..., and which concludes: "Messire Guillaume
Frontey de Neufchateau, who had replaced Messire Jean Minet as curate of Domremy, used to say that Jeannette was a good Christian woman, and that he had never seen or owned a better woman than her in his parish". - Early version of chapter II, Les
Voix (ff. 1 to 64), beginning: "One summer morning, Jeanne was thirteen and emerging from childhood. She was playing that day in the meadow"... and ending as follows: "Sainte Marguerite and Sainte Catherine repeated: - Jeanne la Pucelle, daughter of God, go to France. And Jeanne shuddered, frightened to hear, without recognizing it, the echo of her thoughts, the voice of her soul".
The binding is signed René Gimpel del. and René Aussourd lig. René
Gimpel recalls his visit to bookbinder René Aussourd on January 6, 1931.
René Aussourd: "He has finally finished the binding of the few handwritten pages by Anatole France on Joan of Arc that I own, in which I have drawn golden crosses. He'd like me to draw the title for him, so I look, and suddenly I find, how strange, that Joan of Arc's name forms the cross" (Journal d'un collectionneur,
Hermann 2011, p. 626).
B. The second manuscript, also untitled, is paginated by A.
France from 114 to 202 (including 133 bis to quater). It corresponds to the writing of the second volume, of which he gives chapters XI (the beginning of which is missing) to XIV, dealing with Jeanne's trial through to La Pucelle's death| it ends as follows: "Fearing that certain people might collect Jeanne's remains and guard them as they guard the relics of the saints, the bailiff had them thrown into the Seine. The manuscript, in black ink, shows numerous erasures and corrections, with some passages crossed out| it was used for printing, but shows significant variants with the edition.
Many leaves are made up of cut-out and laminated fragments.
The prospectus for the deluxe edition (Manzi-Joyant, 1909-1910) is enclosed.
PROVENANCE: René GIMPEL (1881-1945)| then his son Jean GIMPEL (1918-1996).