Original Mourning Card from Mallarme's Funeral

by Stéphane Mallarmé

$1,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Paris : n.p, September, 1898 . Stark and haunting card of mourning from the September 10th, 1898 funeral of Stephane Mallarmé. Near fine. Item #1295 Mallarmé had died two days earlier after a gruesome coughing fit in front of his doctor and horrified family. A similar episode days before had so shaken the poet that he wrote the infamous letter found after his death instructing his family some of the same family

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