Lot no. 41
Guillaume APOLLINAIRE. Autograph draft for La Chanson du mal-aimé, [circa 1904 ?] 2 pages in-8. Autograph sketches for La Chanson du mal-aimé.
Sketches with erasures and corrections for three stanzas (stanzas 4, 6 and 7 of "Voie lactée ô soeur lumineuse"...), and two stanzas not retained.
"The satyrs and the pyraustes
Les egypans, les feux follets"...
"O my heart of the four seasons
You have gone leaf by leaf"...
"It will snow angel feathers
Seraphim will be plucked"...
"And on the bridge of Reviens-t-en
I'll be back".
"I never want to forget
Mon tout d'amour ma blanche rade"...
Former Guillaume Apollinaire collection (sale 18 May 1988, no. 26).
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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