PRINCESS BIBESCO [Born Marthe Lucie Lahovary] (1886-1973), Autograph Three typed letters, dated 1928, 1938 and 1939 ...

PRINCESS BIBESCO [Born Marthe Lucie Lahovary] (1886-1973), Autograph Three typed letters, dated 1928, 1938 and 1939, signed.
In French. Good condition
- Typed letter signed ‘Bibesco’ and addressed to Jacques Deval.
[Paris] 1 August 1928
1 page in4 on headed paper with her address '45 quai Bourbon IV / Gobelins 1477'.
She learns that he is to play 'Cardboard Lover' in London, and offers to introduce him to friends of hers who 'could be pleasant and useful to [him]'.

- Two typed letters signed ‘Princesse Bibesco’ to Mr Paul Pléneau
Mogosoëa 7 November 1938 and 23 June 1939.
4 pages in8 on headed paper 'Mogosoëa / By Kitila (Ilfov)'.
2 envelopes

Included:
- Autograph minutes of Paul Pléneau's replies to Princess Bibesco and of a letter from Paul Pléneau to Armand Hammer (President of the Hammer Galleries in New York) about Katia.
1 page in4 and 2 pages in8

- a letter from ? to Paul Pléneau (Nice 20 March 1938) concerning Katia's burial in Nice at the Russian cemetery of Caucade (with a drawing of the tomb).
A set about the film 'Katia' the day after its triumphant premiere in London and the memories of the eponymous Empress: 'London gave our little heroine the same welcome as Paris'. In every interview, she mentioned her name and 'the generous gift you gave me of Katia's medallion'. She was due back in Bucharest to welcome Georges Huisman. She expects to be back before Christmas and will invite him to the Quai de Bourbon with her treasures 'to show them to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who are very keen to see the souvenirs that belonged to Katia. She has received a letter from Mr Armand Hammer, who was delighted to read 'Katia', and who says that he has in his collection some of Alexander II's 'mementos', sold in Paris in 1831. He would like to offer them photos of the objects in his possession and to add his photos to hers for a future edition of 'Katia'.

Marthe Lucie Lahovary, Princess Bibesco by marriage, also known by the pseudonym Lucile Decaux, is a French woman of letters of Romanian origin.

Prince George-Valentin Bibesco (1880-1941), from one of Romania's wealthiest families, was a pioneer of aviation and the motor car.

Jacques Boularan, known as Jacques Deval (1890-1972)

French playwright, screenwriter and film director. He is, among others, the father of the writer Gérard de Villiers.

Her Cardboard Lover

adapted by Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse from Jacques Deval’s play

Lyric Theatre, London, August 21, 1928

Paul Pléneau (1869-1949) - French photographer who accompanied Jean-Baptiste Charcot on his Antarctic expedition in 1903.

'Katia' - French film released in 1938, directed by Maurice Tourneur, based on the novel by Princess Marthe Bibesco.

Katia - le Démon bleu du tsar Alexandre, Gallimard, 1938. Under the pen name Lucile Decaux.