Gyp unaddressed letter, circa 1900? March 10

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Gyp unaddressed letter, circa 1900? March 10

Gyp writes to an unidentified acquaintance, 10 March, no year but circa 1900, in distinctive purple ink on blue mourning paper, concerning tickets for some unspecified event. Separate notes on each side, probably written at a slight interval to the same audience.

2 p.

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Gyp, 1849-1932

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'Gyp' was the pseudonym of Sibylle de Mirabeau, later Comtesse de Martel, a French writer known for satirical writings denouncing the French Republic. Born into a noble family in Brittany, she began writing articles and humorous sketches and gradually progressed to novels and plays. A versatile, remarkably productive writer, her unapologetically right-wing, anarchist views were controversial, and the anti-Semitism that pervaded her life and works more so. She became a very public figure in Frenc...