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COMPLETE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of the humorous short storyAn excellent and distracted man"..
Among the guests of the hotel where the narrator lives, "pot of ineffable muffins and boundless bourgeoisie"None of them find favour, apart from a charming couple, "made up, as often happens in old households, of an old lady and an old gentleman". But the old man in question is proving to be very distracted.
The story first appeared inThe funny life"Alphonse Allais wrote this column in Le Journal from 1892 onwards, and it was later adopted for volume collections. Two and two make five and As we sing our hearts out published by Ollendorf in 1895 and 1900.
[3] f. of 137 x 288 mm and [1] f. of 137 x 118 mm handwritten in black ink. Two leaves frayed at tail, traces of paper sticking to corners.
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