François Aman-Jean: Lot of 2 Signed Autograph Letters to Pierre Lhoste, 1963

  

Set of 2 signed handwritten letters to Pierre Lhoste, 1963.

Set of 2 signed handwritten letters.

Signed handwritten letter dated October 3, 1963, written in blue ink on a sheet of watermarked wove paper with a “Doctor” letterhead.

Dear friend,

I was delighted to meet you and Madame Lhoste. Delighted, too, to learn that you spent your childhood on the other side of the left-hand wall of my garden, in Madame Boudoux’s garden.

She used to write to my father once a year to inform him that the branches of our trees were preventing her pears from ripening...

Something is troubling me about a question you asked me (during the second broadcast, I believe): “Do you like the sea?” It now seems to me that I answered very poorly, with platitudes and an inappropriate image—a “public urinal,” I believe. Would it be possible to redo that recording?

Broadly speaking, here is what I should have said:

I do not like being on the sea; I get bored there. Nor do I like being in the sea; I am afraid there. And yet I enjoy boating and swimming, but only for a short time. Above all, I love the shore. I admire the waves, but I fear them. Ultimately, since salt water is the source of all life, everything that has “emerged” from the sea over thousands of centuries delights me: flowers, animals, mountains, rivers, clouds. The silent, cruel world of fish terrifies me. The sea frightens me insofar as it might reclaim everything that came from it—including us, the most land-dwelling of mammals.

See whether this warrants a correction. And once again, my heartfelt friendship to you and my respectful regards to Madame Lhoste.

Rereading this note, I realize that your radio game is only worthwhile if the answers are spontaneous. If an answer is inadequate, banal, or a failure, too bad for the player: he should not have played. So please disregard this note and retain only its expression of friendship.

Dimensions: 18 x 20.1 cm.

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Number of pages: 2 pages.

Signed handwritten letter card, undated, written in blue ink on an invitation card for an exhibition in honor of his father, accompanied by its stamped envelope, postmarked March 23, 1970.

Dear Pierre Lhoste,

To rescue my father’s art from oblivion, I would be delighted to see you on April 3 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. I am ready to be interviewed by you on the radio about this whenever you wish, between April 3 and May 4, 1970.

Warm regards to you and Madame Lhoste.

Dimensions: 21 x 9 cm.

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Number of pages: 1 page.

François Henri Amand Jean, known as François Aman-Jean, born in Paris on September 14, 1894, and deceased in Château-Thierry on April 24, 1986, was a French writer and playwright.

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