BERNHARDT SARAH / MOUNET-SULLY Jean - Lot 243

Lot n° 243
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BERNHARDT SARAH / MOUNET-SULLY Jean - Lot 243
BERNHARDT SARAH / MOUNET-SULLY Jean Correspondence of 8 signed autograph letters, from 1873 and 1874, 3 from Sarah Bernhardt, 5 from Mounet-Sully as well as an autograph poem signed. Between love, desire, and jealousy, to which Sarah Bernhardt answers that she is free and wants to remain so, and with lucidity "see Jean, there is one thing that will never allow me to be absolutely yours, it is the business side of this great art", then comes an accusation from Mounet-Sully who considers himself deceived, and Bernhardt's answer, finally the breakup, "no longer loving Jean, I loved Mounet-Sully [....] I loved you and for this reason alone I have the right to something other than contempt". Finally, following this rupture, Mounet-Sully sends Bernhardt, on a letterhead of the latter where he replaced his number and his motto, "quand même" by the pen drawing of a black theater mask, a reprimand asking him to be less cold on stage with him and not to throw glances at others for fear of making people talk about them. The letters of Bernhardt are each on letter paper with his number, in-16, 10 ff. recto-verso, an envelope, those of Mounet-Sully on yellowed letter paper, 8 ff. in-16 and in-12, of which 5 recto-verso
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