Overwhelmed, Émile ZOLA cancels his dinner with his publisher Georges Charpentier.
"I am such a sad guest [...] I decided to go to bed very early, to get it over with more quickly."
450€
"I am such a sad guest [...] I decided to go to bed very early, to get it over with more quickly."
450€
Émile ZOLA (1840.1902)
Autographed business card signed to Georges Charpentier.
One page in-16° (6.20 x 10.40 cm).
No place or date.
"I am too sad a guest."
Zola, overwhelmed and ironic, informs his publisher Georges Charpentier that he is withdrawing from a dinner to which he was invited.
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"I am sorry, my old friend, that I cannot keep my promise to go to dinner on Monday. But I am too unhappy a guest. Although things are going perfectly well, I have reflex pains in all my limbs, and I have decided to go to bed very early, to get it over with more quickly. Affectionately to you and yours. Emile Zola."
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