2909400 Autograph letter signed to Andre Breton, 6 February 1918 (pen & ink on paper) (see also 2909401) by Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Private Collection; (add.info.: "Monsieur Andre Breton etudiant en medecine au Val de Grace Paris", du "S-lieut. G. Apollinaire Villa Moliere, 57 Bd Montmorency Paris"). With pulmonary congestion, the poet was being treated at the Villa Moliere where he had been trepanned in 1916. This letter is exceptional because Apollinaire evokes Freud. "Will you come and see me when you bring me the book on Freud\'s theories Allard told me that I know a lot these theories which I have sometimes written and incidentally I have heard much by strong alieniste eloquent and strong man of letters from my friends: Jean Vinchon ". Apollinaire also regrets a missed meeting Breton and Aragon because of a visit of Italian Minister of War. "I get up now, but do not go out of my room." He asks an article in Breton that he will spend in a magazine and asked him to "ask the young Aragon if he would not like her to write (at its option) Breasts of Tiresias on. If he comes to me with you and if he agrees I talk to him about some essential points concerning this piece "," cordially Guillaume Apollinaire ". Apollinaire commenca ? correspondre avec Andre Breton, alors age de 19 ans, fin 1915, et celui-ci lui rendit visite ? plusieurs reprises. Le jeune poete admirait profondement Apollinaire, dont les oeuvres lui semblaient une "splendide collection de meteores". En 1918, Breton, encore etudiant en medecine avait cotoye Babinski et Froment, qui lui dedicacerent leur livre sur l\'hysterie ; il ne pouvait qu\'etre ? l\'ecoute des theories freudiennes ? l\'epoque toutes nouvelles et il avait d羶 en entretenir Apollinaire, sans doute moins familier de ces sujets. Le poete montre ici encore son interet pour toutes les idees nouvelles de son epoque. Il s\'agit de la seule lettre connue d\'Apollinaire ? Andre Breton en main privee. This is the only known letter Apollinaire Andre Breton in private hands.); Photo 穢 Christie\'s Images; French, out of copyright.