FRENCH-CANCAN - ROSE-POMPON(Elvire Hamelin épouse Bonzé dite - Lot 507

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FRENCH-CANCAN - ROSE-POMPON(Elvire Hamelin épouse Bonzé dite - Lot 507
FRENCH-CANCAN - ROSE-POMPON(Elvire Hamelin épouse Bonzé dite, 1824-1895, lorette and French-cancan dancer, she graced the demi-mondain Paris of the Second-Empire, with her friends-rivals Modeste Mogador, Nini-patte-en l'air, Rigolboche, Reine Pomaré and other "Lionnes", of her rocky life she published her memoirs) / Exceptional autograph letter signed, 4 p in-8, on stationery with dry-erase arms of the Russian Prince Gortchakov, whose mistress she was at the time, Bucharest, April 3 [ca. 1853-54, at the height of the Crimean War], to Amédée Achard [1814-1875, journalist, novelist], the expression is rambling, the spelling uncertain and the punctuation non-existent: he will be surprised to receive a letter from her, from a country that will interest the man of spirit that he is, "the idea doesn't seem funny to you that a drolesse of my kind is in Bucharest, in the middle of wars", "I saw everything, two years ago in Moldavia, by love I became Greek, today by war I become Russian", "the idea seems funny to you, and you dear Achard, won't you also come to see this country", "I assure you that you would have subject, and a lot, to make feuilletons". "Frankly, I'm getting very bored. I've been living in Bucharest for 7 months now, in Calafat, in the whole Bucharest area, and I'm still talking about the same things: war, politics", "I must tell you that I fired the cannon at Giurgevo [now Giurgiu, southern Romania], you should have seen it! I can't tell you everything I've done, what I think, and a thousand other things, as my letter won't reach you", "I wrote to my friend Romieu [Auguste Romieu the director of the Beaux-Arts and also a writer, who frequented the grisettes] a few months ago, if by chance you see him, send him a letter and in the meantime a thousand kind things from me, and my good friends I commit you to dinner in six weeks, as I'm leaving these famous principalities that occupy all of Europe today", "I do hope that the newspapers will announce my arrival, what a lot of things I've seen here, except the war but among others", "I'm of the Russian opinion and I've taken the v. russe (virus) en fort mauvais calembourg. Ah well, wartime! At the moment I'm the mistress of Prince Gortchakoff [nb: Alexander Gortchakov, 1798-1883, eminent Russian politician and diplomat who played an important role in the Crimean War, hence the embossed letterhead]. - "Drink to my health, go and kiss my Romieu for me, if you meet any friends who tell you about me, tell them that no cannonball has hit me yet" - She signs: "Your friend Rose-Pompon in the warring Principalities".
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