Hervé BAZIN. Typescript signed with autograph... - Lot 111 - Ader

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Hervé BAZIN. Typescript signed with autograph... - Lot 111 - Ader
Hervé BAZIN. Typescript signed with autograph corrections and additions, [Letter to the President of the Republic, 1975]; 4 pages in-4. Vigorous open letter to the President of the Republic Giscard d'Estaing. "To be honest, Mr. President, I recall that my name was on the list of those who invited to vote for François Mitterrand. I continue to belong to the socialist family and do not feel embarrassed. After all, the presence of your portrait next to the bust of Marianne, in the town halls, is eloquent [...] I wish you, Mr. President, an army that is one and indivisible like the Republic, but where one can claim against the adjutant Flic and wear those long hairs that floated on Bayard's, Turenne's and Bonaparte's shoulders [...I wish you to be able to remove the financiers from our finances, called capitalist, although their very base -the capital- is being eaten away by inflation, as is also the income, which is now lower than the percentage of the devaluation [...Finally, Mr. President, because I do not believe that the Gaullists and their friends have remade Gaul, because I think they want it to do good - a good different from ours - I hope that you will have in your chest, crossed with the great cordon, something of the breath of Jaurès to repeat that there is no monopoly on generosity, to order that everyone be provided with proof of this, at the same time as the necessary warning: to know that without a retreat of egoisms, without a fast and deep evolution, France will not be able to make the economy of a revolution ". One joined the photocopy of a very corrected primitive version of this text (dated 12/14.XII.75); the photocopy of the published article; and a L.A.S. of Hervé Bazin to Maurice Dalinval on the reactions raised by his tribune (January 14, 1976, 2 p. in-8, letterhead Académie Goncourt). "The class struggle is a rejoicing reality. I mean: there is the great class, there is the less great and there are those who have none at all! So I am not surprised at the difficulties you must have encountered in getting my letter published. On the side of my friends, the reaction was no less lively: I didn't know where were tense and tense anymore. The telephone rang a lot. There was talk. This proves at least two things: first, that your newspaper is carefully scrutinized in front of you; second, that any truth remains a versatile revulsive. It must be said that in politics the abandonment of ritual language is scandalous; and that it is undoubtedly more difficult to do without it on the rue de Bièvres (where I had lunch on Monday) than on the Champs-Elysées. We will gladly see each other more often, here or in Paris. One cannot remain indifferent to this great misery which is the incomprehension - mutual - of men of good will".
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