COCTEAU JEAN Autograph Manuscript dated and Signed with smal

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"WE WILL . . . ENTERTAIN YOU . . . BY 'REPRESENTING' . . . 'THE INNUMERABLE'" COCTEAU, JEAN. Autograph Manuscript dated and Signed, with small ink drawings, promoting theatrical performances at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, in French. The drawings, showing a pin and its shadow in each corner of the sheet, and the largest (6x5 inches) showing the bust of a man in profile wearing clothing suggestive of 17th-century European court dress with a candelabra and curtains in the background. 1 page, 4to; evenly toned. Np, 1953

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"Theater not long ago was the entertainment of the Prince. Our age--which has some good aspects--has made it the entertainment of the people. That's why, dear and tender rascal, our loves, my loves, we will use ourself [sic] with all our heart to entertain you better, by 'representing' for you 'The Innumerable' this evening, exceptionally, on the favored stage of the Palais Royal. May each of us: you, the public[, and] we, mountebanks, contribute his modest and so necessary and so indispensable talent."