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HANDSOME SET COMPRISING 5 SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND A PHOTOGRAPH 

- Autograph letter signed addressed to the Blanchar family when Marthe Blanchar is pregnant with Dominque, 1 folio in-12 :

Hello Marthoune!
Hello Pierrette!
Hello, and hello to the farthest away...
Colette

- Autograph letter signed2 pages in-4, autograph envelope, stamped 21 June 1949:

"Au loup Minou, au Loup!" I'm glad, dear Minou, to have these charming pictures of you. You must come and kiss me before you leave.
If I can leave, it will be on 16 or 17 July. But your time is more valuable than mine. All it takes is one telephone call, one free hour, for you to board my raft from which I hardly move. I've suffered so much physically this month that I'm ashamed of myself. It always seems to me that suffering is an unworthy occupation, or at least useless.
Thank you also for the flowers. Seen through a magnifying glass, they're made of a thousand tiny tubes, and look like an underwater flower.
Dear Minou, I'll see you soon, and I hope that nothing will change you, that nothing will spoil either of you, lovely 'pair' that you are.
A big kiss to you all, starting with Pierre Blanchar, and ending with Emile (here I'll show you the photos of the swimming and diving cat).
Your Colette."

- Autograph letter signed1 page in-8, autograph envelope, stamped 4 April 1949.

Dear Minou, I would have liked to have seen you as an 'acrobat'.
If there's a photo, even a not very good one, of your number, can I have it?
None of the white dogs are deaf? It happens to all-white animals.
Love to all the family.
Colette.

- Autograph letter signed2 pages in-8, autograph envelope, stamped 3  January 1950.

"Dear Minou, thank you for the dove, for the roses, for the wishes. Give everyone 'my' Blanchar, my wishes, and my desire to sit at the right table, a day of relaxation a little more tepid. And if, on another, nearer day, you cross the first arrondissement... I kiss you all Mimile too.
For Minou, I still have this feeling that makes me want for her all together
success, but I don't always like to see it thrown, undivided, to the crowd.
Your old friend in bed
Colette.

Excuse the ridiculous envelope, we couldn't find any other in the "courtyard" - read: Palais Royal".

- Autograph letter signed1 page in-4, autograph envelope, stamped 5 February 1952.

"Hotel de Paris
Monte-Carlo
Is it true that you're married now, Minou? My God, you're in a hurry. I don't know where you are; I've been treating my arthritis here for a month. I've been treating it but I can't cure it. My love to all the Blanchars, old and new. Above all, be very pretty and happy. Love to you all.

Colette."

LIPNITZKI Boris - Original photograph signed in white in postcard format,
Portrait of Colette writing at her desk. Famous photographic portrait of Colette sitting at her desk in the Palais Royal, window open.

Colette added in black ink under her pen: " Dear Minou... "