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DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) - DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) French author and playwright. A.L.S., A Dumas f , two pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d., in French. Dumas makes a funny comparison at the beginning of his letter referring to his correspondent, stating in part `A la bonne heure. Vous êtes comme les chevaux de sang. Au premier appel de langue vous vous embalez...’ (Translation: ” At a good time. You are like thoroughbred horses. At the first call you get carried away.”) Further, and to a postscriptum, Dumas refers to Sardou, saying ` Que Sardou ne tremble pas devant moi. Son... nous en fait avaler bien d´autres quelques fois´ (Translation: ” Sardou should not tremble before me. His... makes us swallow many others sometimes”) With blank integral leaf. Small overall minor creasing, otherwise G to VG Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) French dramatist whose works include La Tosca (1887) which formed the basis of Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (1900).