Jules de GONCOURT signed autograph letter crown half bronze half gold

  
Small crease on the page, visible but not impactful. He, and probably his brother Edmond, could not hear their friend give a lecture the night before. "I saw in I don't remember which museum in Italy a head of Caesar crowned with a laurel wreath, one leaf of which is gold, and one leaf is bronze. Your words, where history alternates with poetry, reminded us of that severe and magnificent crown, half bronze and half gold.