colette (1873-1954).
L.A.S. "Colette", [Paris 27.XII.1947], to Pierre BERÈS; 2 oblong pages in-8 on blue paper, envelope.
Charming letter to his bookseller friend, evoking the deliberations of the Goncourt Prize jury.
"The biggest one weighs 750 grams!" says Pauline to me. She is as proud as if she had laid these pears and apples of heaven herself. It's beautiful!" Then she mentions a forthcoming birth, wishing Huguette "a child of weight, a child-record, - but not too cruel to its mother!" She did not write earlier: "the Goncourts imposed on us a meeting, a super-meeting, a super-discussion, a hyper-meeting at the notary's, a lunch at Drouant's, - for which I called in sick... [It was Jean-Louis Curtis who won the 1947 Goncourt Prize for The Forests of the Night].
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