MIRBEAU (Octave).

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MIRBEAU (Octave).
Scrupules. Autograph manuscript signed, (s.l.n.d.). [3], 13 pages in-4, mounted on tabs and bound in a volume in-4, red morocco, spine ribbed, title and author gilt, framed with gilt filets (Marius Michel). The manuscript is written in black ink, without margin, the pages of the acts are numbered in the upper left corner. Annotations in pencil (purple, blue and black). Manuscript with many erasures, corrections and additions compared to the version published in Farces et Moralités (1904). The last seven brief lines are missing from the manuscript. This one-act play premiered at the Grand-Guignol theatre on June 2, 1902, takes the form of a conversation between a thief (accompanied by his valet) who breaks into a bourgeois' house and the victim who is awakened by the noise. The conversation focuses on the victim's taste, the thief's career choices and his ambition to restore the profession "...to the lustre to which it is entitled and to make theft a liberal, honourable and enviable career..." The victim, seduced by the thief's words, dismisses the commissioner called earlier and courteously drives the thief away. Octave Mirbeau library sale (I, 1919, n°835), former Sacha Guitry collections, Daniel Sicklès (XVI, n°6972) and bâtonnier J-C. D. (2018, n°97).
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