SWIM Autographed letter signed to Léon DAUDET

  
Autographed letter signed to Léon Daudet. Autographed letter signed, Marseille, October 21, 1899, 3 pages in-8° on paper with his monogram and address, to Léon Daudet. In this beautiful letter filled with nostalgia, the famous photographer warmly thanks his recipient and humbly suggests that adding a line of reminder for his book "Quand j'étais photographe" could be relevant for the publisher. "Quand j'étais photographe," which had just been published by Ernest Flammarion, is a collection of fourteen stories that reveal the life of the photographer Nadar, mixing studio memories, adventures, amusements, and offering a dive into the epic of the great discoveries of the 19th century, including photography. Nadar ends his letter by mentioning his wife, whom he affectionately nicknames "Madame Bonne," and shares his concerns for her, expressing the desire to receive news from someone who no longer writes to him. Finally, he concludes with a reflection on reaching the age of eighty and the irony of being affected by this milestone in his own life. Ernestine Constance Lefèbvre, Nadar's wife, played a crucial role in the Tournachon family by financially supporting her husband. Her will reflects the family's financial difficulties and grants her son Paul the right to manage the photographic aspect. In 1887, thinking her son had died in the fire at the Favart theater, she suffered a stroke. Nadar then moved to Marseille and sold his photography studio to Gracieuse Germaine Sallenave. Ernestine passed away in 1909, followed by Nadar in 1910, deeply affected by her loss.

In the chaos of multiple and incoherent tasks where my 80 years try to untangle themselves as best they can, piling up behind me [----] of failing and regrets if not remorse, I am reduced to wondering if I ever sent you a thank you for your very cordial presentation of my poor eloquence? If it wasn't done, do not blame my ignorance, but with the indulgence you inherited from the greatly regretted party, forgive my decrepitude. And if I bother you beyond belief, don't you think that, for the publisher - the publisher alone, believe me - it might not be irrelevant for you to add a line to remind and wish for this "Quand j'étais photographe" the very undeserved but still stubborn success of its much older sibling "Quand j'étais étudiant" - This unkillable Methuselah, one of those chimneys that stubbornly persist in smoking without ever flaring up? Convey my most affectionate and admiring respect to your dear mother, tell her all our very tender memories to your very kind brother and the exquisite young lady who must have become a great young lady - and think of us sometimes as we often think of you.

Our darling Madame Bonne fortunately continues to maintain herself thanks to the admirable piety that has nurtured and preserved her for these fourteen painful years. But how many times we have difficulty seeing her absorbed, gloomy - without news from the one who doesn't even write to her anymore.

Our small matters, satisfying, on the perfect and modest floor of my present ambitions. Quickly return the proof to Flammarion, 20 Rue Racine. It's funny, after all, to be eighty years old! - and that it should fall on me..

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Third Republic at peace (France). Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar, was a French caricaturist, writer, aeronaut, and photographer. He first gained recognition as a caricaturist and writer before delving into photography starting in 1854.

He published a series of photographic portraits of contemporary personalities and became a pioneer of aerial photography by taking photos from a balloon. His studio became an important meeting place for artists and he organized the first exhibition of the Impressionist painters in 1874. Nadar is known for his technical mastery of photography and his contributions to the art of his time.

Léon Daudet was a French writer, journalist, and politician. A republican converted to monarchism, anti-Dreyfusard, and clerical nationalist, he was one of the main political figures of the Action française and one of the most well-known contributors to the movement's newspaper. The bibliography of this committed writer's works is extensive as he authored 128 works. His memoirs include six volumes of.

From 1880 to 1921, according to Marcel Proust, who added: ". The similarities between Saint-Simon and Léon Daudet are numerous: the most profound seems to me to be the alternation, and the equal success, of magnificently atrocious portraits and soft, venerating, noble portraits. More information on Léon Daudet.

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