CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand: Correspondence with Attorney André - Lot 121

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CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand: Correspondence with Attorney André - Lot 121
CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand: Correspondence with Attorney André DAMIEN. A set of two long, signed, handwritten letters sent from Denmark to her attorney. 6 double-sided pages (March 5, 1946) and 2 pages (March 15, 1946), in-8 format, written in pencil, in which she discusses in detail her thoughts regarding her defense in France, “I challenge the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office to cite a single act of treason of which I am guilty toward my country. It is true that the mere fact of being a suspect is enough in France at the moment—as it was in ’89—and more than enough to have you shot”... “Frenchman, doctor, and writer. That is what I am, nothing else. No compromises.” A lengthy attack on those who remained in their posts, the writers who hate him, the communists who want 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 perspective on the four years of war and collaboration.
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