JOUHANDEAU (Marcel). Set of 9 pieces. - Lot 132

JOUHANDEAU (Marcel). Set of 9 pieces. - Autograph letter signed TO ROBERT COQUET. August 14, 1948. Letter written on behalf of himself and his wife: "... You know that you are our adopted son...". He talks about his work as a writer, and his other activities in Mariol, Allier, Élise's maternal home. He is delighted to appear in four magazines that month, but worries about a printing error in his text "La Faute plutôt que le scandale" in Hommes et mondes. He evokes the anniversary of his mother's death. - Autograph letter signed [TO ROBERT COQUET]. "Friday". LOVE LETTER. - Autograph letter signed [TO ROBERT COQUET]. May 16, 1957. Letter of loving friendship, also of the glory of appearing in a Swiss magazine, and evoking their respective wives. - Autograph letter signed [to his lover Robert Coquet]. May 17, 1957. About his article on La Fontaine in the magazine Arts, his biography of Saint Athanasius, and a meal with Robert Coquet's mother and Henri Rode (who played a role in his relationship with Robert Coquet). - Autograph letter signed A ROBERT COQUET. S.d. Incomplete from beginning. SUPERB LOVE LETTER: "... What I would like to inculcate in you is self-esteem, the knowledge of the greatness of the soul and the concern to ensure its independence, a royal, imperial independence. Delicacy and nobility, nothing is rarer, and this is what you must strive for with me, at the same time as I do. If I caused you the slightest pain through brutality, if I disappointed you with a single gesture of mine, I would die. Be with me as I want to be for you. What you must propose to yourself is to perfect your intelligence, furnish your memory, improve your heart and acquire the means to meet your needs, so as to remain free, come what may. A man is great only if he is not a burden to anyone, and even more so if he can make many others happy too. Of course, it's not about the present. You're a soldier without resources. I'm talking about the future. I'll always be there, just as I am with you, your angel, your Providence, but I want to be with you, as a strength, not as a danger of weakness. You know I'll always be there for you. So lean on your Marcel with all your confidence, but to raise yourself up, to become a man in every sense of the word. I've come into your life, not to make you redoubt any duty, but to help you fulfill them all, and most perfectly, with less trouble than if you were alone. Look at me: without you, I wouldn't have the courage to do everything I do, to get up so early and to put up with so many setbacks. Energy, my beloved Robert, make me proud of you. Don't detach yourself from your religion. You've gradually detached me from all beings, from everything. Now I have pleasure only with you and through you, and for your sake I'd go so far as to give up my pleasure. Through our love, God himself is already sometimes revealed to me. Together, we must rise to Heaven. I kiss you, my Robert, my beloved. M. " - Autograph letter signed to Robert Coquet's parents, Hélène and Moïse. January 8, 1949. Friendly letter, also mentioning Henri Rode. ROBERT, OU LE GRAND AMOUR DE MARCEL: Marcel Jouhandeau had a long love affair with the musician Robert Coquet, particularly intense from 1948 to 1952, then waning. It was his friend, the writer Henri Rode (for a time his secretary and future biographer), who had introduced him to this handsome man, who had been his lover for three and a half years. Throughout Marcel and Robert's affair, there was an active correspondence between the three men. A writer of intimate chronicles and a strongly autobiographical work, Marcel Jouhandeau soon conceived the idea of recounting this sentimental, sexual and epistolary relationship: he published L'École des garçons in 1953, and Du Pur amour in 1955, incorporating entire passages from the crossed correspondences. Aware of the literary value of the letters he had received, he granted one-third of his royalties on these two works to his two correspondents. However, Henri Rode claimed to a few people, including Jean Paulhan, that he was the author of Robert Coquet's letters to Marcel Jouhandeau, and that Coquet had merely copied them in his own handwriting. Jouhandeau learned of this from Paulhan and flew into a rage, falling out with Rode for a time. He then wrote a sequel to Du Pur amour, which appeared in 1957 in an enlarged edition of the work: Rode and Coquet, who were much less at ease with it, were bitter. - Autograph notes similar to those in his Journaliers. 1963. 6 pp. in-8. Fragment concerning JEAN PAULHAN, in particular