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245 - Albert CAMUS. *Les Justes*. Paris, Gallimard, 1950.
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Albert CAMUS. *Les Justes*. Paris, Gallimard, 1950. Cover with some damage. Copy numbered S – FIRST EDITION of the twenty non-commercial copies bound in Navarre alfa foam. Enclosed is a letter printed on ‘Librairie Gallimard’ letterhead: “Paris, 21 March 1950 – Mr Paul Oettly, Théâtre Hébertot – Dear Sir, Albert Camus, who is away from Paris as you know, has asked me to produce a special copy of *Les Justes* for you. I am sending it to you in this envelope, – and I ask you to accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest regards. J. Festy”. Provenance: Estate of Paul OETTLY – French actor and theatre director. Paul Oettly’s wife, Marguerite Faure, was the daughter of the architect Jean Faure, and the aunt of Francine Faure. Following Francine Faure’s marriage to Albert Camus in 1940, Paul Oettly thus became the writer’s uncle-in-law. This is why the future Nobel Prize winner in Literature moved in with Mrs OETTLY when he suffered a recurrence of haemoptysis in 1942. One of the many favours the actor did for Camus during his enforced stay at Le Panelier was to supply him with paper, a scarce commodity during the war and essential for the writer. The two men got on very well and often went fishing together. Oettly was involved in the production of all of Albert Camus’s plays.
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