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APOLLINAIRE GUILLAUME: (1880-1918) - APOLLINAIRE GUILLAUME: (1880-1918) French poet, playwright, novelist and art critic. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., in French. The fragment of manuscript, torn from a larger sheet, features five lines of text in Apollinaire's hand, in full, 'Nouvelle du mort, eparpillement du corps, stagnation de l'ame en idee fixe eue au moment de la mort' (Translation: 'News from the dead, scattering of the body, stagnation of the soul in fixed idea had at time of death' ) beneath which he has drawn a line and written the nickname Schinderhannes . To the verso appears fourteen partial lines of text in Apollinaire's hand, being a fragment of a draft of an article with references to politics, work, the rich and the poor. Very slightly irregularly torn edges, otherwise VG Johannes Buckler (c.1778-1803) German outlaw who orchestrated one of the most famous crime sprees in German history and earned the nickname Schinderhannes. Apollinaire dedicated a poem to him in his collection Alcools (1913).