Ano/Jean Richepin Autograph

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Click Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FREE! Ano/Jean Richepin Autograph Autograph Quotation Signed, no place, no date. About 10" by 6". "Je songe aux blex couopes qui ne sont pas les notres, et dont les epis m[?]rs font du pain po[?] les autres."Sorry, we do not read French. Note: staining and edge tears.Jean Richepin (4 February 1849 - 12 December 1926), French poet , novelist and dramatist , the son of an army doctor, was born at Medea ( Algeria ).At school and at the École Normale Supérieure he gave evidence of brilliant, if somewhat undisciplined, powers, for which he found physical vent in different directions--first as a franc-tireur in the Franco-German War , and afterwards as actor , sailor and stevedore --and an intellectual outlet in the writing of poems, plays and novels which vividly reflected his erratic but unmistakable talent. A play, L'Étoile, written by him in collaboration with André Gill (1840-1885), was produced in 1873; but Richepin was virtually unknown until the publication, in 1876, of a volume of verse entitled Chanson des gueux, when his outspokenness resulted in his being imprisoned and fined for outrage aux mœurs.The same quality characterized his succeeding volumes of verse: Les Caresses (1877), Les Blasphèmes (1884), La Mer (1886), Mes paradis (1894), La Bombarde (1899). His novels have read more

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