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Deffoux, Léon
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biographical documents: Léon Deffoux

Various biographical documents of interest:

  • 3 pages of advertising material for two books by Deffoux, Un logis de J.-K. Huysmans (1 copy), and Le naturalisme (2 copies)
  • 4 press clippings about his career ranging from 1929-1937
  • 1 small portrait of Léon Deffoux designed by Jean Lébédeff, french engraver
  • 1 photocopy of Léon Deffoux’s handwritten and typed c.v.
  • 1 offprint of an article written by J. Sanders, "Léon Deffoux (1881-1944), échotier et historiographe du naturalisme," Cahiers Naturalistes, vol. 81, 2007, pp. 259-272
  • 1 undated, untitled document (typed) about Deffoux’s career, probably by J. Sanders, may be a draft of the previous article
  • 1 excised article on Léon Deffoux by André Billy from L'Alliance litteraire, November 1930, pp. 19-22.
  • 1 letter from the Institut de France acknowledging receiving a copy of Deffoux’s book

Léon Deffoux- various letters and documents (photocopies)

  • Photocopied photograph of Léon Deffoux
  • Handwritten note card from Alain Barbier Sainte Marie, dated 5-X-06, attached to a photocopied article by Alain Barbier Sainte Marie: "Léon Deffoux (1881-1944)", Cahiers Edmond et Jules de Goncourt, n° 3, 1996, pp. 104-112.
    -2 copies of a photocopied letter from André Billy to Lucien Descaves about Léon Deffoux’s suicide , dated March 19, 1945.
  • Handwritten letter (plus 1 photocopy of the letter) from Alain Barbier Sainte Marie to James Sanders, dated 10- XI- 2006. Includes envelope and photocopy of a letter written by Léon Deffoux, dated May 18, 1929.
  • Photocopied letters (24) and postcards (2) from Auriant to Deffoux, 1927-1939.
  • Photocopied article written by Auriant entitled "Mme Bovary, née Colet." From L'Actualité Littéraire, May 27, 1936.
  • Photocopied letters (6) from René Dumesnil to Deffoux, 1919-1931.
  • Photocopied letters (19) from publisher G. Crès to Deffoux (with documents – photocopies – pertaining to his bankruptcy), 1924-1936
  • Photocopied article by André Billy about Deffoux. From L'Alliance Littéraire, November 1930, pp. 19-21.

Collection théâtrale André Antoine

  • CA ON00389 C8
  • Collection
  • 1880 - 1985

The collection consists of: papers from director André Antoine; letters from Antoine; letters to Antoine from various playwrights, whose plays he staged; photographs of actors and actresses; letters from various members of Antoine's family; 40 autograph letters from Emile Zola; letters from and to journalist Léon Deffoux; letters from and to Maurice LeBlond, Emile Zola's son-in-law; letters from and to playwright Georges Ancey and his wife; several first editions of Zola's novels, some with bound autograph letters. Throughout are photocopied documents, collected by Sanders, as contexual material about the era and referenced events or articles within the correspondence. Also included are original letters sent to Sanders from the friends and relatives of those whose letters appear in the 19th century correspondence.

Sanders, James B.