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I've read several times of the suspicion that D'un cahier d'esquisses may have been a 'trial run' for La Mer, recently I stumbled across a quote in the liner notes to the Naxos series of recordings of Debussy's piano works that something that might be interesting to hunt down and add.

D'un cahier d'esquisses (From a Book of Sketches) was written in 1904. As its title indicates, the piece was taken from a musical sketch-book and was later arranged by a Belgian publisher, who acquired the rights to it, for cinema orchestra.

http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_re ... e=English#

Some quick web research reveals that the 'Belgian publisher' in the quote above may have been Schott...

Paris Illustré publishes D'un cahier d'esquisses, subsequently purchased by Schott brothers in Brussels.

http://www.debussy.fr/encd/bio/bio5_03-09.php