COLETTE, Sidonie-Gabrielle. Signed Autographed Letter to Curnonsky

  

Signed autograph letter, to Maurice Edmond Saillant, known as Curnonsky. 3 pages in-12 on cream paper, 150 x 114, accompanied by its envelope dated December 7, 1909.

Signed autograph letter from Colette, sent from the home she shared with Missy Rue de Saint Senoch in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. She thanks Curnonsky for sending her "to the Gaîté [Théâtre de la Gaîté-Rochechouart], a whole garden of flowers that you pour over my innocent and peasant head." The Gaîté-Rochechouart theater had been hosting Sacha Guitry's play entitled C'te Pucelle d'Adèle since November 19, 1909, with Colette in the lead role. In a dedication to his friend René Koval, Sacha Guitry specified about this play: "That's what it is to tell someone: 'I will do anything to please you!

' I wanted to please the admirable Colette and I did anything! She also mentions the rather ungentlemanly practices of her ex-husband Willy towards her: "and I swear that I will eventually get this old pimp - I named Willy - to stop speaking well of me in the newspapers when he signs, and to drag me through the mud when he doesn't.