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The first day of the scattering at auction in Paris of part of the library of former President François Mitterrand, gathering more than a thousand works of literature of the twentieth century, was a great success, beyond the estimates, according to the sales house Piasa.
Monday, about 330 first lots were awarded for the sum of 570,000 euros (excluding fees). A second sale, on Tuesday, will concern nearly 350 other works. This fund of modern works, in original edition for the most part, belonged, since the death of the former head of state, to the youngest son of François Mitterrand, Gilbert.
An original copy dating from 1937 of "Comme le temps pbade" by Robert Brasillach, estimated between 5,000 and 8,000 euros, was awarded three times more: 24,000 euros (excluding fees). The first edition of Maurice Barrès' "La Colline inspirée" was sold at 5500 euros (excluding fees), more than four times the high estimate.
A copy of the "Righteous" Albert Camus
Considered one of the favorite writers of the former president, Jacques Chardonne occupies a special place in his library. "To François Mitterrand memory of a compatriot," writes Chardonne in the copy of "Letters to Roger Nimier" auctioned Monday 1600 euros (excluding fees), however lower than the low estimate of 2000 euros.
Among the nails of the sale, a copy of the "Righteous" Albert Camus (5000-8000 euros) that the future Nobel Prize for literature addresses "to the Minister of the Interior … in memory of just cause ", went to 16,000 euros (excluding fees).
François Mitterrand was appointed Minister of the Interior by Pierre Mendès France in 1954. The "just cause" mentioned by Camus recalls the links woven between the two men in the Resistance under the Nazi occupation. Also gathered during the Second World War François Mitterrand and Marguerite Duras remained close. In the original copy of "The Lover of North China" was awarded 18,000 euros (excluding fees), for an estimate high to 12,000 euros.
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