Roumanille, Joseph, Provençal poet, editor, and founder of the Félibrige (1818-1891). Autograph letter signed.

€ 450.00

Interesting letter to the journalist and music critic Charles Vinces, addressed under his pseudonym Carl Cisvens, announcing a little package of books that he compares to a bouquet of flowers, although it misses "a dandelion". Of one of the books requested by Vincens, Roumanille only had a damaged copy that he didn't want to send, preferring to look for a better copy: "Il est essentiel que notre Zola en vers vous arrive, un tantinet expurgé, mais non mutilé". He then relates that he had just returned from the graduation of his son in Marseille but didn't have the time to visit Vincens as urgent work for his Almanach provençal was awaiting him. The final page concerns the Académie de Marseille, following Vincens's reception in 1883. Apparently, Vincens had confided some reservations or criticism with respect to the Académie to Roumanille, of which he "won't speak" as "the Académie would lose too much for it". He confirms the arrival of Vincens's discourse of reception and inserts a Provençal term in his farewell: "Le petit oiseau vous piéuto ses saluts les plus affectueux".

With a tear to the fold.