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Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893).

Autograph POEM, ‘La jeunesse n’est plus’…; 2 pages in-12 on paper marked ‘GM’ with a crown.

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Autograph POEM, ‘La jeunesse n’est plus’…; 2 pages in-12 on paper marked ‘GM’ with a crown.

An early poem of 26 lines (partially published in *Le Temps* on 7 December 1897), written on paper bearing the crowned monogram of his father, Gustave de Maupassant. ‘Youth is no more; our dejected race Has turned it into a tavern where all is sold. He who wishes to enter must leave at the threshold All that remained of his courage and pride’…