LOUYS Pierre (Pierre Louis, dit) [Gand, 1870 - Paris, 1925], - Lot 54

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LOUYS Pierre (Pierre Louis, dit) [Gand, 1870 - Paris, 1925], - Lot 54
LOUYS Pierre (Pierre Louis, dit) [Gand, 1870 - Paris, 1925], French writer. Set of 16 autograph letters signed by Pierre LOUYS, addressed to Paul Robert between 1901 and 1904. No, whoever the queux, Joseph or Paillard, Ritz Or Larue, learn that tomorrow (or I die) Tomorrow night I'll take at about the twenty-second hour The Paris-Bordeaux Dax Bayonne and Biarritz train. (1) I'll enter the horrible, pale pier That rubs its rump in the eyes of the nations, The Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (2) Like an anchored ship, the boatless nave adheres. Employees wearing a P followed by an O In the blackened crest of their humble caps Will see me unfurling on all the benches Not Kerst's article but Corneau's. If my neighbor, a sinister oaf, insists And talks to me about tonal or non-tonal tuning I want to tell him in Juvenal's voice: "Choose this dagger or be a Debussist!" (1) this alexandrine is the most beautiful in the French language. (2) this one too "
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