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DISCUSSING CHARACTERS FROM HIS NOVEL "THAÏS" FRANCE, ANATOLE. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient ("dear Madame"), in French, mentioning scenes [from his novel, Thaïs] in which Thaïs performs in the role of Polyxena and in which a naked man is encountered in the desert, complaining that [Victor] Brochard would think the naked man was an image stolen from him, suggesting [joking?] that he himself should write a history of the skeptics, expressing his amusement at Abbot Paphnutius [character from Thaïs], describing his encounter with Ms. Houssage who looks modern and young and innocent, adding that Houssage doesn't see or understand or feel anything, conveying regards from Ms. Suzon, and, in a postscript, asking what day she returns so that he may visit. 4 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet; faint uneven toning to first and terminal pages, minor scattered soiling. Np, nd
