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several old letters and envelopes are displayed on a white surfacethree handwritten letters and a piece of paper with writing on theman old black and white photo of a man standing on a beachfrench red cross document with handwritten letters and a red cross symboldrawing of a dog laying down in a field with a house in the backgrounda lot of papers that are on a tablethe front and back pages of a book with a picture of a cat
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90 - Charles Maurras: from his arrest to his death
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Estimate €500 - €800
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Charles Maurras: from his arrest to his death A collection of handwritten notes, correspondence and press cuttings, 1936–1943 FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE Handwritten notes by René Benjamin on loose sheets, over 50 pp. in-8 and in-12, including 5 March 1936, Maurras’s lecture February 1936, the search 29 October 1936, the Court of Cassation 30 October 1936, the arrest 11 May 1937, visit to La Santé prison Maurras dining at our home with the Huntzigers, February 1938 The day of his election to the Académie Française, at Madame Bainville’s 9 June 1939, the day after his induction into the Académie June 1939, his first private session at the Académie 6 July 1939, banquet at the Bainville Inter-Allied Circle December 1941, visit to Lyon at the Grand Nouvel Hôtel 17 January 1943, a confidential conversation with Dr Gargaud 23 February 1943, Maurras at Saint Rapt 9 L.A.S./P.A.S., 1938–1943, Charles Maurras, addressed to René Benjamin, including L.A.S., Martigues, 12 June 1938, 3 pages in-8 with stamped envelope My dear friend, do you know what is haunting me? It is having thrown a stupid bibliographical error at you the other day, in response to your slander: ‘the man surrounded by women’. I attributed it to Luc Durtain. I sensed it was wrong. But I couldn’t recall the truth: Drieu de la Rochelle. The realisation did not come to me through any catalogue, but through the simple workings of the mind – the process that sifts through images, discards the false ones and brings back the true ones. But I find rest only when I can breathe. I believe that is now done. A thousand warm regards. Postcard showing a Provençal landscape, co-signed by Denise Varillon and Charles Maurras, 3 August 1938 Business card of Charles Maurras, editor of *L’Action Française*, with an autograph inscription Portrait postcard, with an autograph inscription signed ‘To René Benjamin, in memory of hours all too short in Martigues’ Autograph letter, Lyon, April 1943, 2 pp. in-8 Dear friend, I am ashamed to have kept you waiting for days for this note that you so kindly asked me to write. Rest assured, I am perfectly well and have continued to be well – indeed, they say, better and better. I do mean: well, ever since that marvellous moment when I awoke from a sleep into which I hadn’t even realised I’d drifted. I am very happy, at last, to have news of the Queen... An extremely rare booklet entitled ‘French Unity and the Teachings of Charles Maurras’, produced to mark Charles Maurras’s lecture given in Oloron on 2 April 1943 and his talk on 3 April 1943, in aid of the French Red Cross for our prisoners; with a handwritten dedication by Charles Maurras Charles Maurras on the shores of the Mediterranean, photogravure print, 38 x 28.5 cm, with a signed autograph The Last Interview, Saint Grégoire Clinic, Tours, 12 May 1952, by François Benjamin, 3 pp., in-8 Michel Jamar (1911–1997) Charles Maurras Burin 16 November 1952 17 x 22 cm Etc... FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE
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About the sale René Benjamin, the 20th-century Balzac scholar
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Auction time 10/06/2026 at 2:00 PM
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