Madame CATULLE-MENDES: Handwritten & Signed Letters

  

Two postcards and five fine handwritten, signed letters to the poet Fernand Gregh. Jeanne Mette was first married to Louis Alexandre Boussac, with whom she had two sons, including Marcel Boussac. She divorced him in 1895, after nine years of marriage, and married Catulle Mendès two years later. They had a son, Jean Primice Catulle-Mendès. She founded the Primice Catulle Mendès Prize in 1922, as well as the Catulle-Mendès Prize and the Verhaeren Prize.