Subasta Bidspirit | SAND GEORGE: (1804-1876)

SAND GEORGE: (1804-1876) - SAND GEORGE: (1804-1876) French novelist. Autograph manuscript, unsigned, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., in French. The manuscript is headed ‘Au renouveau, la fauvette rencontra le roitelet’ and imagines a conversation between the two birds conducted in a peasant slang, ‘La F [auvette] Te voila bien grassouillette! Le R [oitelet] Te voila tout guilleret. La F - L'hiver ne me fut point rude au grenier du laboureur. Le R - Quant a moi, j'ai l'habitude d'hiverner chez le fendeur. Les bucherons sont honnetes. Je m'y chauffe comme un roi on y brule des buchettes quasi grosses comme moi. La F - Moi, je mangeais a plein ventre dans l'orge et dans le millet mon hote a des tas ou j'entre jusqu'au dessus du mollet. Le R - Ces paysans ma commere sont par ma foi bien heureux! La F - Ils ont de quoi, mon compere nous engraisser tous les deux’ (Translation: ‘The W [arbler] – You look very plump! The W [ren] There you are, all perky. The W [arbler] The winter was not harsh for me in the ploughman’s attic. The W [ren] As for me, I’m used to wintering at the splitter. Lumberjacks are honest. I warm myself like a king, they burn logs almost as big as me. The W [arbler] As for me, I ate my fill of barley and millet, my host has piles where I enter up to above the calf. The W [ren] These peasants, like me, are, in my opinion very happy! The W [arbler] They have what it takes, my friend, to fatten us both up’ ). With blank integral leaf bearing Sand’s blind embossed initials. VG