LETTRE DE PRISON - GEORGES-ANQUETIL (Jules-Georges Anquetil - Lot 474

LETTRE DE PRISON - GEORGES-ANQUETIL (Jules-Georges Anquetil dit, 1888-1975, lawyer, press owner, pamphleteer and publisher, he never ceased to launch scandalous journals, denouncing all kinds of "affairs", he died at Buchenwald, political deportee) / Autograph letter signed, 3 p in-8, Fresnes prison, April 6, 1929, to Jean Ajalbert of the Académie Goncourt, "100th day of preventive detention", he wants to make "a solemn appeal" to his intellectual esteem, he asks him confidentially (so the letter was smuggled in), to testify at his trial, and to this end to contact his lawyer Alexandre Zevaes, "you can't imagine all they've done to try to lose me, they've gone so far as to illegally seize my wife's fortune, in no way involved in the affair, they went so far as to throw me, a war veteran with a pension for tuberculosis and president of a General Council, in the middle of a freezing winter, in an unheated cell with asphyxiating toilets[...]