Marcel JOUHANDEAU (1888-1979, writer) / Correspondence of 12 - Lot 269

Marcel JOUHANDEAU (1888-1979, writer) / Correspondence of 12 autograph letters signed to his former student the journalist Maurice Dalinval, totaling 24 p in-8, from 1955 to 1971, most with envelopes - Dalinval always remained loyal in friendship to his teacher, never ceasing to visit, support and assist him at the end of his life - The correspondence is friendly, Jouhandeau talks about his health, wonders why François Mauriac refused his article, talks about his conferences in Italy, says he is in dire straits, having to pay inheritance tax (on his wife's death) "in the material impossibility of raising such sums at present and immediately", a long letter dated August 22, 1971, in which he explains that the polemicist Michel Rachline "has just behaved in an unspeakable way towards me", "he had taken it into his head to publish on his own account the letters I wrote to him ten years ago", "after the odious book he has just published on Louis II, Elisabeth of Austria and Marie-Antoinette, it was a dishonor to me", "on the other hand, it was contrary to the commitments which bind me to Gallimard", "I refused him absolutely, and when he found it impossible to compromise me to bail himself out, he dared to insult me by telephone in the most rude manner", etc.