NAQUET (Gustave) - Lot 231

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NAQUET (Gustave) - Lot 231
NAQUET (Gustave) Journalist, playwright and man of letters. L.A.S. signed "Gustave Naquet" to Mlle Dorval, May 15, 1829, 4 pages in-8. A very interesting letter addressed to the famous actress Marie Dorval, in which the young author recalls her kind reception of him and seeks her advice on the manuscript of his tragedy Ugolin. The tone is deferential, almost pleading, and beautifully captures the relationship between an ambitious young playwright and an established actress: "I am young, enthusiastic and full of the desire to explore the career of letters". Naquet eloquently expresses the hope that Dorval's protection and judgment might open the doors to the theater for him: "by opening to me a career whose entrance is strewn with untold pains and difficulties". The letter also includes a tribute to a piece of verse composed for her a few years earlier, which he had never dared to present to her. A highly evocative collection of Romantic literary and theatrical life around 1830, with a particularly appealing human and literary content.
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