CARAN D'ACHE - Emmanuel Poiré dit (1858-1909, humorist and c - Lot 248

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CARAN D'ACHE - Emmanuel Poiré dit (1858-1909, humorist and c - Lot 248
CARAN D'ACHE - Emmanuel Poiré dit (1858-1909, humorist and caricaturist) / 1°) Original photograph by NADAR, cabinet size (11 x 16,5 cm) with handwritten mention on the back: "Caran d'Ache May 1897" - 2°) Autograph letter signed, 4 p in-8, February 12, 1897 (postmarks on envelope enclosed), to Madame de Fournoux, at the Château de Saint-Maurice in Crocq (Creuse), superb calligraphy text: "By doing me the extreme honor of interesting you in my humble sketches you make me quite confused and very proud! But by asking me how I proceed - please turn the page Madam - You embarrass me terribly Madam! It is that... I do not know it myself - And then... to tell you it would be necessary to speak about me - The "Me" which is always hateful - And I will confess to you, Madam - That I do not have a greater enemy of myself - than me... (After all, it is perhaps exaggerated friendship!) - In any case (I believe and I am sure to be in the truth) - It is never necessary to say to oneself: "My God, that I have thus talent!..." but well: "Ah, God! that it is bad!... My friend, it is necessary to look after that!..." - Forgive me, Madam, for forcing you to turn yet another page - One must take care, one must be clear, for one must also think that one is seen and read by the great mass of the Public - That anonymous and dreadful, changing, capricious and captivating thing - "The Public...!" which goes from You, Madam, You, Kings and Queens, Emperors and Empresses - down to the humblest... down to the children! - And when (something so good and... so rare) when I receive a testimony of interest like the one you addressed to me, Madam, I feel comforted and better armed for the struggle... The struggle of every day, because for us entertainers, there is no tomorrow! - I am finished, Madam! - I prostrate myself at your feet - Like a Muslim before Allah!" - 3°) Original announcement of his marriage with Miss Henriette Azimont Deligne on February 2, 1891, with envelope written and calligraphed by his hand
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