Page 2 - Catalogus 36 Henri Chopin 2015
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Full description:
2. ‘Le dernier roman du monde’.

Original typescript. 230 p. (recto only).
1. Ernestine. Le dernier roman du monde. In half linen folder with the author’s name 

Version originale ́crite sans graphisme pasted on front cover. Handwritten vignette 

– 1961’
inside reading: ‘H. Chopin 9 Rue de Mesanges 
Original typescript, [7] + 134 p. (recto only). 92 – SCEAUX Tel. 350 42-97’.

Signed by Chopin on the last page ‘[Signature] 
L’Haij-les-Roses’. All pages gathered in a soft

paper folder. 

On front of 
paper folder, 

in Chopin’s 

handwriting: 
‘Version 

originale 
́crite sans 

graphisme – 
1961’.



The original 
text of 

‘Ernestine. Le 
dernier roman 

du monde’, 
dated 1961. 

Typewriter 

font in black
ink on different stock of paper. Autograph 

corrections throughout the text.


Paper This typescript was
folder assembled by Jo Verbrugghen in order to prepare the 

partly printed edition of 1970. Typed on different stock of 

damaged paper of
and torn at different sizes.

extremities Closely but not
and spine
perfectly

resembling the
experimental

layout of the

book. Correc-
tions and

additions (some
concerning

layout) in
handwriting

throughout the

text. Different
indications of

page
numbering.

Some blanks
indicate pages in the book that could not be executed





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