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The experts estimated the value of this document between 60,000 and 80,000 euros … and it was the subject of a fierce battle.
This is called a popular manuscript. Auctioned Sunday afternoon at Fontainebleau, the letter in which Charles Baudelaire announced his intention to commit suicide found a taker for 180,000 euros hammer, or 234,000 euros with additional costs. However, the experts estimated the value of this document between 60,000 and 80,000 euros.
according to The Parisian, the buyer was not physically present at this sale: it is by telephone and at the end of a long struggle during which the auctions have steadily increased, that the new buyer, whose identity does not was not made public, finally won the "battle".
A letter written … 22 years before his death
This letter from Charles Baudelaire was one of the centerpieces of the sale, entitled "Baudelaire Collection & Great Writers". She was sent by the French poet to his mistress Jeanne Duval, when he was only 24 years old.
"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, "wrote Charles Baudelaire.
After writing this missive, the poet, misunderstood by his family, overwhelmed by the problems of money and alcohol, a prey to doubt about his literary talent, will stab a knife … without serious consequences. He will not die until 22 years later.
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