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A moving letter from Charles Baudelaire announcing his intention to commit suicide, an attempt to survive in 1845, will be sold Sunday with 34 other missives by the author of the Flowers of Evil by the auction house Osenat.
"When Miss Jeanne Lemer gives you this letter, I will be dead (…) I die in a frightful worry (…) I kill myself because I can not live anymore, the fatigue of falling asleep and fatigue to wake me up are unbearable to me, "wrote to his mistress Jeanne Duval the misunderstood poet of his family, overwhelmed by the problems of money and alcohol, in doubt about his literary talent. He will stab himself without serious consequences. He is 24 years old and will live another 22 years.
This letter, estimated between 60,000 and 80,000 euros, will be the highlight of the sale of this house based in Fontainebleau, southeast of Paris. Other Baudelaire texts in which her beautiful winding script appears are on sale: a love poem "The Promises of a Face", annotations contesting violent literary criticisms of the Flowers of Evil ("I never said that "), writings where he describes his boredom, his" black ideas ", his" fury ", his hatred of the" French scoundrel ".
Letters from prestigious writers
Letters from Barbey d'Aurevilly, Eugène Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Edouard Manet, addressed to him are also collected in this exceptional Baudelaire collection. Many other writers of the nineteenth and twentieth century are included in this prestigious sale, retracing exciting exchanges epistolary on many literary and scientific debates of those times.
Thus, proofs of Emile Zola's Human Beast, the 17th novel in the Rougon-Macquart series and homage to the railways, corrected by the hand of the novelist of social realism, are put on sale. Zola's writings in private hands are very rare, almost all of which have been handed over to the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Two autograph letters from Marcel Proust to his mother, and a photographic portrait of 1896 featuring Lucien Daudet, son of Alphonse Daudet, lovingly looking at the author of Du côté de chez Swan and leaning on his shoulder. A scandalous picture then in the eyes of Proust's family. Documents and letters by Hector Berlioz, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Sigmund Freud, Gustave Flaubert, Albert Einstein, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine and Jean-Paul Sartre, to name but a few, will be also scattered Sunday by Osenat at Fontainebleau.
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