Autographs by De Lacretelle

These   2 Authographs Letters Signed  by Jacques de Lacretelle  to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt, are written at the same date, on 22nd July 1955,(sent to different places to marlia and to rome, two countess'residences), in French. In excellent condition, including origial envelopes. 

From Cabourg , from the Normandy seaside resort of international fame, best-known as the Balbec in Marcel Proust's Á la recherche du Temps perdu , Jacques de Lacretelle writes to Countess Pecci Blaunt about a future trip to Switzerland and ponders a possible meeting between them.

The French novelist of Silbermann always keeps in touch with his mentor and patron of arts, the Countess Pecci-Blunt and the Count Blumenthal. 

Jacques de Lacretelle (France, 1888 – 1985)

Jacques de Lacretelle, was a French novelist, elected to the Académie française on 12 November 1936. His best-known book is Silbermann ( 1922), an imaginary autobiography of a Jew person persecuted at the time of the Dreyfus case. Among other works stand out Les Hauts Ponts , (1932-35), the story of the cult of land ownership that destroys a family over three generations.

In 1930 he was awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for the novel Amour nuptial . Lacretelle was also the author of essays and travel stories: Le demi-dieu ou le voyage en Grèce ( 1930), L'écrivain public (1936). In 1977 he obtained the Prix Marcel Proust for Les vivants et leur ombre.

In 1981 he published a collection of short stories entitled Quand le destin nous mène

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