Camille BARRÈRE (La Charité-sur-Loire/ Nièvre 1851-1940) Dip - Lot 590

Camille BARRÈRE (La Charité-sur-Loire/ Nièvre 1851-1940) Diplomat, Ambassador to Berne, then to Rome from 1897 to 1924. Elected to the Académie des Sciences morales et Politiques in 1926. Set of 9 private letters signed by Camille BARRÈRE and 4 cartes de visites: 7 Lettres A.S. and 1 Carte A.S. are written to his friend Victor MAUREL, an opera singer, from 1895 to 1933; friendly correspondence including: A letter about a project supported by Hermann Lévi, who was experiencing serious health problems. Several letters about theater. One suggests that Maurel create the role of Bizet's Don Procopio in Milan and Rome. Another asks the artist to ... give two performances of Don Juan... A third, probably addressed to Victor Maurel's son, speaks of the ... greatest lyric artist ... that Barrère knew + 1 Lettre A.S. to his dear DUMAINE, from the Palazzo Farnese, in Rome in 1907. Joint: A letter from Madame BARRÈRE.