
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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£15,000 - £20,000
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Provenance
Lucien Millevoye (1850-1918), gifted by him to
Maud Gonne (1866-1953), and thence by descent through the family to the present owner
Lucien Millevoye was a poet and prominent member of the Boulangist party in France; he had a relationship in the 1880s with Maud Gonne, a well-known campaigner for the Irish independence movement and women's causes and a muse of the poet W.B.Yeats. She and Millevoye had two children together; the politician Sean MacBride (1904-1988) was her son from a later marriage.