La dame de Monte-Carlo. Poème de Jean Cocteau, musique de Francis Poulenc. Autograph manuscript signed, Monte-Carlo, April 1961., 1961 - 1962

File — Box: 1, Folder: 2

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Scope and Contents

9 pages, folio (350 x 265 mm), in blue ink, on music paper from a spiral notebook (16 staves per page), slipped into a double page music paper, with the dry stamp « FLAMMARI- ON, magasin de musique », sporting the title of the work.

This double page also sports the inscription from Poulenc to Denise Duval : « La dame de Monte-Carlo, c’est-à-dire Mad- ame Duval. Porquerolles, 61 » [The Lady of Monte-Carlo, that is to say Mme Duval. Porquerolles, 61]. The manuscript also sports a few marks in red ballpoint pen. Some folding on the first and last leaves. Provenance : Denise Duval (inscription) – by descent to the present owner.

Carl B. Schmidt, The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) : A Catalogue, 1995: FP. 180 (CH-BXduval).