BENJAMIN, René. Two signed autograph postcards addressed to - Lot 36

BENJAMIN, René. Two signed autograph postcards addressed to Abel Bonnard. Regarding *En Chine*, for which Abel Bonnard was awarded the Grand Prix de Littérature by the Académie Française. 2 pages, in-12 format (148 x 114 mm), with addresses and postmarks on the reverse. Paris, March 5, 1924, and Lussault-sur-Loire, June 21, 1924. Two small tears in the second letter, repaired with adhesive tape on the reverse. The writer René Benjamin (1885–1948) congratulates Abel Bonnard on the publication and literary success of *En Chine*, an account of his nine-month stay in China. March 5, 1924: “Ah! Dear friend, it certainly seems that you have in your veins a civilization as ancient, as refined, and as surprising as the wonders of the Chinese”… June 21, 1924: He congratulates Abel Bonnard, who has just received the Grand Prix de Littérature from the Académie Française for *En Chine*: ...“You are full of genius: I’m not telling you anything new, but it’s so pleasant to say it again”...