COCTEAU, Jean. Signed autograph letter addressed to Abel Bon - Lot 97

COCTEAU, Jean. Signed autograph letter addressed to Abel Bonnard. Half a page, in-4 (270 x 210), no place, October 1, 1962. A lighthearted and festive thank-you letter. “You have given me immense pleasure. First for the poem, and second because I could hear our Mendès reciting it to me from memory while waving his cane.” Attached is a handwritten note quoting a letter from Abel Bonnard dated October 28, 1963, written a few days after the poet’s sudden death: ...""Now Jean Cocteau has fallen from his tightrope, where he remained dressed as a pink-and-green street performer, high above a world of mud. I have no bad memories of him. He was truly a brilliant conversationalist, a playful, cheerful man, without malice"...