René-Guy CADOU (1920-1951). Autograph poem signed, Peine de - Lot 41

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René-Guy CADOU (1920-1951). Autograph poem signed, Peine de - Lot 41
René-Guy CADOU (1920-1951). Autograph poem signed, Peine de mort, with sending L.A.S., Nantes November 8, 1939; 1 page in-4 each. Moving letter to a magazine director at the beginning of the war: "There are a few of us in the world who do not want Poetry to die. One by one the comrades are mobilized, one by one the reviews disappear ". He asks to reserve each week a column to publish young poets full of promise: Fernand Marc, Jean Rousselot, Jean Follain, Louis Guillaume, Maurice Fombeure, etc., as "a message from our companions". He sends in the meantime a poem of 15 verses, Peine de mort : "I am ready to follow you It's still a chance to live A proper way to die And the idea of being a man Makes me want to laugh"...
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