Dedication of Edmond Rostand, circa 1895 Folded... - Lot 206 - Coutau-Bégarie

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Dedication of Edmond Rostand, circa 1895 Folded... - Lot 206 - Coutau-Bégarie
Dedication of Edmond Rostand, circa 1895 Folded fan, the double sheet of paper painted with flowers. Reverse side decorated with two autograph dedications in ink, taken from Edmond's play Rostand : " Les Romanesques ". The first by Edmond Rostand (1868-1918): "Sylvette, we dream, Sylvette, let's speak low, / That the noise of our voices does not wake us up ". Located and dated at "Luchon 8 August 1895". The other one by L. Le Bargy, actor of the Comédie française : " L'amour naît. / On ne sait pas pourquoi, quand, comment il doit naître ". Dated August 8, 1895. Natural bamboo mounting, pierced and engraved. H.t. 24,2 cm-H.f. 14 cm (a broken strand) N.B. : during the summer of 1895, Edmond Rostand stayed in Luchon with his parents. The fan is accompanied by a handwritten document: "Fan sold for the benefit of the works of Madame Rostand, at a performance of the "Romanesques" in Luchon, August 1895. A verse of the Romanesques in the hand of Edmond Rostand / A verse of the Romanesques in the hand of Le Bargy ".
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