LOUŸS (Pierre Louis, known as Pierre). Set of 12 pieces. - Lot 134

LOUŸS (Pierre Louis, known as Pierre). Set of 12 pieces. AUTOGRAPHIC POETIC MANUSCRIT entitled "Une ballade de haine". Poetic imprecation with refrain "Et le diable prenne son âme" ("And the devil take his soul"), written in a style that feels like a translation, either because it is one, or because Pierre Louÿs deliberately sought the effect (14 verses on one p. in-4 oblong, some wetness and a marginal lack). - Autograph notes. 17 ff. in various formats. Notably on the lived and fictional parts of literary work, on "the idea of God" (with drawings), on Greek and Egyptian archeological objects that aroused his interest, on the maternity of Anne of Austria, on his own family history crossed with that of Victor Hugo, copy of a letter he addressed to the Prefect of Police to denounce a swindle involving forged manuscripts offered in his name to Charavay and Maggs. - 8 letters (7 autograph letters signed and one autograph) [to Louis Loviot]. 1912 and n.d. Including 4 letters on bibliophilic and bibliographic finds: "... Register of entries on December 19: 1 manuscript in 2 vols. 1 printed from 1538. 1 large folio from 155. 1 modern book... Here is the quotation you asked for on bicuspidia [double sex]..."; "... The gods send me today... the Rochester of 109, the authentic, the primordial, the untraceable, the lost, the Rochester under the title Works..." (letter incomplete at beginning); "Iô! Iô ! Evohé! I was right! I found the author of Regrets d'une jeune courtisane grecque, that piece from the Cab[inet] sat[irique] about which I argued to Lachèvre [bibliographer Frédéric Lachèvre] that it was not a satire but a confession and that Florent Chrestien had certainly not invented it. It's the 5th elegy of Maximianus Etruscus, Theodoric's ambassador to the Emperor of Constantinople. This is what you find when you wisely spend your night reading the Poetæ latini minores instead of playing toton with little Trautz like you do every night..."; "Tonight's mail brings me the wackiest book to appear since the libretto of L'OEil crevé. It's called Histoire comparée des arts de la lingerie et de la reliure...". - Autograph letter signed. S.l., "Saturday, October 3" [1914]. Long letter on the war, on a dinner with Camondo, on advice from a certain "P.", perhaps Raymond Poincaré, on an interesting discussion with a pessimistic wounded officer, Captain Cuny. - Autograph signed. S.l., October 2, 1915. "I owe my friend Charles Bargone (Claude Farrère) the total sum of twenty-nine thousand one hundred francs..." ATTACHED: MOULIE (Charles). Autograph letter signed to Pierre Louÿs. 1921. Friendly letter from this writer who was Pierre Louÿs' secretary. - MOULIE (Charles). Autograph card jokingly signed "Karl Moul.". "Sitting on a pyge [buttock] with grace and method, / But eyes to the sky where I seek a star, / While all is night here, I mend / L'Estoile's repertoire..." He may be referring to magistrate and memorialist Pierre de L'Estoile, or writer Claude de L'Estoile. - CHALVET (Maurice). Autograph note signed. 1935. Concerning the fate of Pierre Louÿs's correspondence with his mistress Marie de Régnier, of which he had a copy taken by Pascal Pia.