TAILHADE (Laurent). Set including a manuscript and 5 letters - Lot 163

TAILHADE (Laurent). Set including a manuscript and 5 letters. Signed manuscript with autograph corrections entitled "Le point d'honneur" (11 pp. in-4). ON THE LITERARY FIGURE OF DON JUAN. - Autograph letter and card signed [AU COMEDIEN COQUELIN AINE]. April 20-21, 1899. "I would very much like to applaud you a second time in Plus que reine. Please favor me with two places, let's choose Tuesday the 25th... During CYRANO, you graciously asked me to visit you. I fell ill a day or two before the performance I had flattered myself to attend. This time, no doubt, I'll be happier, and will be able to express to you in person all the admiration I have for you... ". The card contains his thanks. On March 28, 1899, Constant Coquelin, known as Coquelin aîné, created the role of Napoleon in Émile Bergerat's drama Plus que reine. He had also created the title role in Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac in 1897. - Autograph letter signed [A ARISTIDE BRUANT et sa compagne Mathilde Tarquini d'Or]. September 9, 1906 Concerning, among other things, the publisher Albert Messein and his desire to publish Bruant's new songs. Laurent Tailhade also mentions the text he was to publish as a preface to Xavier Privas's collection, La Chanson sentimentale. - Autograph letter signed to a journalist at Le Petit Niçois, February 5, 1916. Concerning articles he had sent a long time ago, but which have not yet been published: "... In order to obviate the delays that would result from the bad spirit of this or that article, I will be able to give... a column without topicality, on questions of humanism or aesthetics...". - Autograph letter signed to an editor [probably Georges Crès]. March 6, 1916. VERY NICE LETTER ON BIBLIOPHILY, and on plans to republish, in particular his work Le Troupeau d'Aristée. - Autograph letter signed to a journalist friend in Nice, March 17, 1916. He asks for an advance of one hundred francs for articles to be written: "... Do you remember that apophthegm of the Goncourts, when they say that there are times in life when one would give a million to have three francs. I'm not quite there; but between five louis in 24 hours and fifteen at the end of a month, I certainly wouldn't hesitate for a moment...".