CLAUDEL, Paul. An autographed, signed letter and postcard ad - Lot 95

CLAUDEL, Paul. An autographed, signed letter and postcard addressed to Abel Bonnard. A few words of congratulations regarding the Académie française and the appointment of his colleague. 1 page, in-8 format, on printed letterhead from the French Embassy in the United States (192 x 146 mm) and 1 page, in-12 format, affixed (90 x 140 mm) to the back of a photograph of the Château de Brangues. Washington, June 17, 1932, and Brangues, June 24, 1935. June 17, 1932: He congratulates Abel Bonnard on his election to the Académie Française to succeed Le Goffic. “When I was living in China, I had your two volumes of poetry sent to me and read them with immense pleasure”... June 24, 1935: Another note of congratulations, this time to commend Abel Bonnard’s speech at the reception for Marshal Franchet d’Espérey, who was taking the seat vacated by Marshal Lyautey. In 1935, Paul Claudel (1868–1955) narrowly missed out on a seat on the Academy to Claude Farrère. He would be elected eleven years later, in 1946, unopposed, at nearly eighty years of age.