CHERAU Marie Etienne Gaston dit Gaston Chérau (Niort 1872-19 - Lot 14

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CHERAU Marie Etienne Gaston dit Gaston Chérau (Niort 1872-19 - Lot 14
CHERAU Marie Etienne Gaston dit Gaston Chérau (Niort 1872-1937), journalist, regionalist writer, and photographer. A set of documents comprising: - a corrected proof of 8 notebooks of 8 pages bearing the wet stamps of the Crété printing works, dated 8 August and 13 September 1933, with numerous handwritten corrections and annotations by Gaston Chérau, who wrote at the head of the first page ""I do not correct typographical errors"". These printed proofs are accompanied by 4 autograph letters signed, from September 1933 and May 1934, by correspondents of the Librairie Hachette, with letterheads, addressed to the writer accompanying the dispatch of these proofs. - an edition entitled ""L'enlèvement de la Princesse"", illustrated by Zyg Brunner, for the magazine Lecture pour tous with a handwritten note signed on the 1st page by Chérau, with erasures and numbering by hand in red pencil. - the corrected typescript, followed by the definitive typescript, of the Plan of the novel (3 leaves each) - several corrected typescripts (23 leaves for the first 4 chapters / 17 leaves for the first 3 chapters / 24 leaves for the first 4 chapters again) - the typescript, this time complete, and also corrected by Gaston Chérau, comprising 102 leaves (without the ff.38), with annotations by the printer. - 3 typescript pages presenting the characters of the novel and the places, the first one very annotated by Chérau's hand, the second one with some corrections and the third one very well done. - and 11 handwritten sheets by Gaston Chérau, in-4 and in-8 formats, forming sketches and notes for his novel. The kidnapping of the Princess. Novel, published in 1934 by Hachette, in the collection ""Bibliothèque Bleue"", whose action takes place in the middle of the Vendée bocage, where the arrival of a film company with its directors and artists upsets the lives of its inhabitants.  
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