Lucie Faure-Goyau / Paul-César Helleu - Chansons Simplettes pour les petits Enfants - 1906

Chansons Simplettes pour les petits Enfants

poèmes de Lucie Félix-Faure-Goyau

Stunning Art Nouveau illustrations by Helleu

Large, folio (42 x 31 cm).

Edition d'Art de la Phosphatine Falières 1906

Minor defects and tears on the cover, quite fresh inside, good copy of this amazing promotional album in a quite large size.


Paul-César Helleu was a French painter and engraver, born in Vannes on 17 December 1859, and died in Paris on 23 March 19271.
He inspired the character of Elstir, the painter, in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

Lucie Faure-Goyau, born in 1866 in Amboise and died on 22 June 1913 in Paris, was French woman of letters.
She was the daughter of the President of the Republic, Felix Faure.
She and her sister, Antoinette were childhood friends of Marcel Proust; there was even talk of a marriage between Lucie and Marcel, but the scandal caused by Félix Faure’s death prevented this from happenening.
(wikipedia)