Box 1

Scope and Contents Autograph manuscript signed, July-August 1960. 1 title page with inscription on reverse and 16 pp. in blue ink, numbered in red ballpoint and with scarce red ballpoint and pencil annotations. On music paper from a spiral note- book, folio (350 x 270 mm). The cover of the notebook sports the title: La courte paille. Maurice Carême, Francis Poulenc. 1960. An original blue and red pencil drawing by Jean Cocteau was pasted on the reverse of the cover. It sports an...

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...