Marguerite Yourcenar - l'œuvre Au Noir - Long Autograph Letter - Cause Animale

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987). L'Œuvre au noir. Gallimard, Paris. Superb, long autograph dispatch emphasizing her sensitivity to the animal cause.

One of the press service copies following the event of her election to the Académie française in January 1981 (completed printing, April 1981)

Size: 14 x 20.50 cm. Paperback. Boards and spine rubbed. Slight marks of use. Fresh interior. Nice copy.

Superb, long autograph dispatch in green pen, highlighting his sensitivity and early commitment to the animal cause.

To Dr. and Madame Monin,

That 16th-century physician I showed defending owls*, freeing rabbits and curing an old mule.*

Well sympathized,

Marguerite Yourcenar

April 21, 1981

*In the 16th century owls were often nailed to barn doors out of superstition, considered birds of misfortune. In the Novel, Zeno objects to this wanton cruelty born of ignorance.