Whistler's precepts and the posing hand, chronicle to a Germ - Lot 88

Collection of Monsieur Jean de BUZELET

Paul Jean TOULET, the master of poets.

tuesday may 27, 2025 at 2pm

PARIS - HÔTEL DROUOT - ROOM 2

Public exhibitions:

Saturday May 24, 11am to 6pm

Monday May 26 from 11am to 6pm

And the morning of the sale from 11am to 12pm

Telephone during the exhibition and sale: 01 48 00 20 02

Jean de Buzelet was a lifelong collector of the works of Béarn poet Paul Jean Toulet.

Born in Pau in 1867 and dying in Guéthary in 1920, P.J. Toulet was a poetic role model for many writers, and will be remembered in literary circles for having created a new poetic form with contrerimes. He was at the origin of the group of poètes fantaisistes led by Carco and Derème.

Jean de Buzelet worked all his life on the work and the man, and collected more than 20 manuscripts, including a large part of the Contrerimes, that of La jeune fille verte and that of Le mariage de Don quichotte.

A wealth of correspondence with his writer and poet friends (Willy, Carco, Curnonsky, Cantinelli, Paul Budry, publisher Henry Martineau, Eugène Montfort, Jean Louis Vaudoyer, Tristan Derème...).

And, of course, all his works in rare editions, perfectly bound by the great bookbinders Semet et Plumelle.

A unique collection on the work of the great poet and on the literary and poetic world of the turn of the century.