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FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880)

Lot 61
22.05.2025 15:00UTC +02:00
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€ 30 240
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1421830
Lot 61 | FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880)
Estimate value
€ 10 000 – 15 000
FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880)
Salammbô. Paris : Michel Lévy frères, 1863.

Édition originale. Exemplaire avec amusant envoi de Flaubert à Leconte de Lisle, en demi-reliure de l’époque.

Si Flaubert y déplore, un sourire en coin, que son correspondant ne lui "envoie pas ses livres", Leconte de Lisle a bien reçu l'exemplaire, et a répondu à cet envoi par une lettre du 16 décembre 1862 :" Mon cher Flaubert, j’avais déjà lu ton livre avec la plus vive admiration. C’est plein de force et d’éclat, et pénétré surtout de ce génie singulier, propre à notre siècle, qui reconstruit pièce à pièce les époques passées, par leurs côtés puissants et idéalement vrais. Salammbô est donc une œuvre moderne par excellence, quoi qu’en disent les imbéciles... Bravo, mon bonhomme ! Tu es un poète et un peintre comme il y en a peu... Merci deux fois, et d’avoir écrit ce beau poème et de me l’avoir envoyé."
Clouzot, p. 121 ; Vicaire, III, col. 724-725.

In-8 (222 x 142 mm). Édition originale. Sur le faux-titre, envoi autographe signé de Flaubert : “à mon ancien ami Leconte De Lisle qui ne m’envoie pas ses livres. Souvenir de Gve Flaubert”.
Reliure de l'époque : demi-chagrin rouge, plats de papier marbré, dos à nerfs et caissons ornés, gardes de papier marbré, tranches mouchetées (quelques frottements et taches).

Provenance : Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894 ; envoi et cachet à sec sur le titre).

A precious copy, amusingly inscribed by Flaubert to Lecomte de Lisle. He jokingly accuses "his former friend" Leconte de Lisle of not sending him his own books.
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