Lot n° 244
Estimation :
4000 - 6000
EUR
* French Academy - Lot 244
* French Academy
Sword of Marcel Prévost (Paris, 1862 - Vianne, 1941)
Fine sword with gilt mount. Ivory fuse chiseled with interlacing foliage and ribbons, engraved "May 27, 1909" (date of his election to the Academy) and "April 21, 1910" (date of delivery of the sword). Agate pommel surmounted by a dome with melon ribs on a silver base.
Fine branch of guard decorated with grape vines, with quillon curved downwards, signed "Falize Orf. Paris".
Keyboard decorated with ribbon interlacing with days. Triangular blade with hollow sides, signed at the heel "Coulaux à Klingenthal". Black leather scabbard with two fittings. Cut-out cap, engraved with a fortified tower and trees, with the inscription "Vianne". Gold plated buttler chased with foliage.
Oval cap button chased with the initials G.S.L.
L. 94,5 cm.
Good condition. In its green morocco covered case, figured "MP" and friezes, sheathed inside with white silk marked "Falize orfèvre à Paris" and green velvet.
CITES number FR2307501964-K = EXPERT : Jean-Claude DEY = 01 47 41 65 31
Eugène Marcel Prévost was a French novelist and playwright, born in Paris (8th district) on May 1, 1862 and died in Vianne on April 8, 1941.
After studying at the minor seminary in Orleans and with the Jesuits in Paris, Marcel Prévost entered the École Polytechnique in 1882. He was an engineer in the tobacco industry in Lille where he was also an examiner at the Institut industriel du Nord.
He was one of the first dreyfusards, and took part with Émile Zola, Louis Sarrut and Louis Leblois in the dinner organized on November 13, 1897 by Scheurer-Kestner, president of the Senate and Alsatian, during which the latter decided to share his conviction with the public.
In 1881, he began to publish short stories in Le Clairon, a monarchist newspaper, under the pseudonym Schlem. His first writings are under the influence of Alphonse Daudet and George Sand. In 1890, he left the civil service to devote himself to literature. Three periods can be distinguished in his career. The first concerns the works of youth and extends from 1884 to 1894. The second begins with the novel Les Demi-Vierges and ends in the 1920s. Finally, the third period extends from the 1930s to his death and shows that, despite a certain loss of public enthusiasm, he remains a first-rate writer. He directed the Revue de France from 1922 to 1940 and was elected to the Académie française on May 27, 1909, in the chair of Victorien Sardou. Marcel Prévost was made Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1894 (and decorated by Philippe Gille), promoted to Officer in 1900 (decorated by Ludovic Halévy of the Académie française), Commander in 1913 (decorated by Paul Hervieu of the Académie française).
Decorated with the Croix de Guerre 1914-18, Marcel Prévost was elevated to the dignity of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor on November 23, 1927 by Raymond Poincaré, former President of the Republic and member of the Académie Française, and finally to Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1935, the insignia being presented to him in January 1936 by General Charles Nollet, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor.
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