PORTE, Marius "Cahier appartenant a Porte Marius... Lot 781

PORTE, Marius "Cahier appartenant a Porte Marius maître pointeur au 53.me d'artillerie a Clermont Ferrand/ Puy de Dôme". [Clermont-Ferrand c. 1910] Schoolbook in-8° square: [2]-144 pp. written in Indian ink on squared paper (angular tear without loss to title skilfully rest. with sticky paper, some light soiling marg.). Mute bottle-green half-percaline boards, marbled paper boards, blue tr. Collection of some sixty songs, without music, carefully calligraphed by an artilleryman stationed in Clermont-Ferrand. Of particular note is an anti-militarist song, "La mère du déserteur" ("The deserter's mother"). The authors are not mentioned. Table of titles in fine. Qqs titres : "Tu ne sauras jamais", "Mirella", "Ma Miette", "Tire tire Ninette", "La fille du marin", "C'est ma payse", "Le roi s'amuse", "C'est derrière la caserne", "Le biniou", "N'insultez pas les filles", "J'ai engueulé le patron", "Veuve joyeuse", "Le rétameur des dames", "Le camarade de lit", etc. Enriched with an ex. of the sheet "Le Triomphe artistique" with more. songs including 2 acc. to music.