Lot n° 134
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FLAUBERT (Gustave). Letter from M. Gustave Flaubert to the m - Lot 134
FLAUBERT (Gustave). Letter from M. Gustave Flaubert to the municipality of Rouen concerning a vote on Louis Bouilhet. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1872.
In-8, 20 pp. paperback, printed cover.
First edition of this violent text resulting from one of Gustave Flaubert's rare but holy literary anger, aroused by the refusal of the majority of the Rouen City Council, in early February 1872, to grant a site for a memorial following Bouilhet's death in July 1869.
Ex-libris J.M. (Vicaire III, 728.)
Enclosed:
- a postcard with new Flaubert stamp (1952)
- a reprint of the publication issued by the Centre d'art contemporain de Rouen in 1995, in a small edition.
Also included: ROUAULT DE LA VIGNE (René), L'inventaire après décès de la bibliothèque de Gustave Flaubert. Rouen, Lecerf, sd (c.1957). In-8 paperback pp. 73-84 (extract from the Revue de la Société Savante de Haute-Normandie), enriched with an E.A.S. and 2 L.A.S. from the author. Ex-libris J.M.
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