FERVAL (Claude)
Pseudonym of Baroness Marguerite Aimery Harty de Pierrebourg, née Thomas Galline (1856- 1943). L'Autre Amour. Paris, Calmann-Lévy éditeur (1902); in-12 (19x12.5 cm), period gray cloth bradel, title-piece (rubbed), cover. 318 pages. First edition. One of 15 numbered copies on Japanese imperial paper (the only large paper). Autograph letter signed "to Professor Pozzi, in high and affectionate sympathy". Samuel Pozzi (1846-1918), surgeon, Marcel Proust's physician. Claude Ferval ran a literary salon frequented by d'Annunzio, Gide, H. de Regnier, Valéry and, above all, her friend Marcel Proust. In 1912, she became president of the jury for the Prix de la Vie Heureuse, which in 1922 became the Prix Femina.
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