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CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand: Correspondence with Maître André DA…
See original version (French)
121
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CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand: Correspondence with Maître André DA…
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
Voluntary lot
Description
CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand: Correspondence with Maître André DAMIEN. A set comprising two long autograph letters, signed and addressed from Denmark to his solicitor. 6 double-sided pages (5 March 1946) and 2 pages (15 March 1946), in-8, written in pencil, in which he sets out in detail his thoughts on his defence in France, ‘I challenge the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office to cite a single act of treason of which I am guilty towards my country. It is true that the mere fact of being a suspect is sufficient in France at the moment, as it was in ’89, to have you shot’...’ Frenchman, doctor and writer. That is what I am, nothing else. ‘No compromise.’ A lengthy attack on those who remained in their posts, the writers who detest him, the communists who wish him dead, the judges who carry on as if nothing had happened...A valuable account of the writer’s state of mind at the time and his view of the four years of war and collaboration.
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