Letters of Invitation

These Letters of Invitation  by Jacques de Lacretelle  to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt, are 3   autograph letters signed , written between 1928- 1935 , in French. In very good condition, except for the lettter written in 1928 with a visible strain. Including origial envelopes. 

• A.L.S.  June  28th 1928.
• A.L.S. March 19th   1933
• A.L.S . April 6th, 1935

This correspondence between the French novelist of Silbermann and his mentor and patron of arts, Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt is cmposed of three letter of invitation for a literary conference in Rome and for a pleasant trip around the natural beauty of Castelfusano and the architectural beauty of the capital. 

Background:

Awarded with the  Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française  for the novel  Amour nuptial in 1930, Jacques de Lacretelle was writing   Les Hauts Ponts during the period of this correspondence.

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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