Marcel PRÉVOST (Paris 1862 - 1941) - Novelist and Playwright - Lot 595

Marcel PRÉVOST (Paris 1862 - 1941) - Novelist and Playwright, Académie Française, President of the Société des Gens de Lettres - Letter A.S. from PARIS August 10, 1905, 49 rue Vineuse - 2 pages in-8°, on blue paper - addressed to M. GLASER Editor of FIGARO, 26 rue Drouot in Paris - "Mon cher Confrère. I found your bill on my way back from a trip to Thuringia and Franconia; I had gone there to prepare my next novel: M. et Mme MOLOCH, set in Germany. It will appear, I think, at the beginning of 1906. My opinion on the question of awards? I gave it to the readers of FIGARO in a recent column. As a student, I won many prizes, all of them. And I left school knowing nothing at all. What little we do know, we acquire out of school, through a free and personal spirit. Secondary education in France is absurd and harmful. Whether you put prizes in the case or take them away, it won't stop what is taught to children in lycées and free schools, between the ages of six and eighteen or so, from being nothingness itself."