Marcel PROUST Autographed letter signed to Baroness de Pierrebourg. Dec. 1915

  
The Autographes des Siècles bookstore has been specializing for many years in the sale of autographed letters and manuscripts. Autographed letter signed to Baroness Aimery Harty de Pierrebourg.

Kolb, Volume XIV, pages 325-326. "An autumn rose is more exquisite than another.

" Marcel Proust sends his wishes tinged with the memory of the death of Paul Hervieu, the late lover of his correspondent. In these days of renewal, when wounds hurt more, I think of you whom this ending year has so cruelly wounded.

I did not know your mother, nor your son. But I knew the incomparable friend who had received this unique privilege, as abnormal in the realm of spirits as in the vegetable world, having borne so many bitter and sweet and nourishing fruits, to keep the grace, the freshness, the rosy petals of a flower. So much so that one can say, despite the full orchards of its fruiting reached in the fullest ripeness, that it is still in bloom, that on a mysterious night of war, and silently like a flower, he was mowed down. [verses by Agrippa d'Aubigné].

That one was still of summer. Human rose, alas, and upon which many tears are shed. Tell your daughter and Georges that I think infinitely of them and please accept, Madame, all my respects.

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