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328 - Robert BRASILLACH (1909–1945). Autograph letter, Sens, 23 No…
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Robert BRASILLACH (1909–1945). Autograph letter, Sens, 23 November 1943, to a friend; 2 pages, in-8. On the internal divisions within Je Suis Partout [from which Brasillach has just resigned]. ‘The “guerrilla warfare” with J.S.P. [Je Suis Partout] is taking up a great deal of my time’. There is a lawsuit against the newspaper brought by Georges Blond and Henri Poulain. ‘I am a witness for the latter; the hearings are as long as the Grands Jours d’Auvergne, with all sorts of twists and turns, etc. It is rather tedious and generally quite sordid. The advantage is that, during this time, one thinks less about terrorism, communism and the Eastern Front”. He does not hold the Ministry of Education in high regard; his brother-in-law [Maurice Bardèche] “is a lecturer at the University of Lille and has not yet managed to secure a permanent post after two years”; but he may be able to do something for his correspondent’s friend, the doctor. As for a lecture at ‘Les Heures’, he hasn’t yet decided on a topic; and he is ‘dreadful of the cold and travelling. I’ve just spent three days in Sens, which is two hours from Paris, and I’m appalled by the journey. But I’m going to shake myself up a bit. Georges Blond is in the Lot, working on an adventure novel. –- I’m going to publish a selection of my literary articles from *L’Action française* one of these days – Now that the ‘front of friendship’ has narrowed, I’ve hardly any contact left with Cousteau of Les Epinay [Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, who succeeded him at *Je Suis Partout*] and Retenez-moi of Neuilly. - I’m going to the cinema at last! I’ve seen some lovely films’... In a postscript, he asks whether ‘from the former free zone, can we still legally correspond with countries with which we have not severed diplomatic relations: Spain, Argentina, Switzerland?’…
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