Francis de CROISSET (Wiener de Croisset, 1877–1937, playwrig - Lot 93

Francis de CROISSET (Wiener de Croisset, 1877–1937, playwright, novelist, and librettist; a socialite who was a frequent guest of Marcel Proust and inspired the character of Jacques du Rozier in his *In Search of Lost Time*) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8, on letterhead bearing his Paris address, March 6, 1910: “Convinced that you will be pleased to share in my great happiness, I am very pleased to announce my upcoming marriage to Madame Maurice Bischoffsheim” [He was to marry the widow of the banker Maurice Bischoffsheim, née Marie-Thérèse de Chevigné, daughter of the salon hostess Laure de Chevigné, a close friend of Proust’s who inspired his character the Duchess of Guermantes, great-granddaughter of the Marquis de Sade and mother of Marie-Laure de Noailles]

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