Anna de Noailles Signed Autograph Letter Reims Cathedral Poilus 1915

  

Beautiful patriotic autograph letter signed with her title. During the First World War (November 1915), concerning Reims Cathedral. On paper with her address.

The magnificent project that was proposed to you by a soldier, and in which the breath and the vow of the combatants seem to pass, must receive unanimous approval.

The annual gathering of a victorious people. It will be the National Festival of French sorrow and glory. Please believe me, Sir, in the sincere expression of all my best sentiments.

Traces of earlier restorations and. The reality of the trenches in visit. Her husband, mobilized as of August 1914, and in.” The poet notably paid tribute to this sacrificed youth and to Reims Cathedral in the first part of Les Forces éternelles (1920). In November 1915, in a Rimbaldian impulse, the poet seems to sketch November 1918! Reims Cathedral was set on fire by the Germans on September 19, 1914.