Jean GALMOT (1879-1928) businessman and adventurer. L.A.S., Paris March 8, 1919, [to Paul REBOUX]; 3 pages in-4 on his letterhead and address. Rare letter from the hero of Rhum by Cendrars. Following an article by Paul Reboux "Les deux témoins" published in L'Œuvre on March 8, 1919, denouncing the absurdity of the administration, Galmot congratulates him: "I would like to have this issue of L'Œuvre posted in all the administrations"... Protests against the Administration and Mr. Lebureau are in vain: "Lebureau does not exist... In the administrative jungle, the civil servant who decides is ambushed in such a way that no law can reach him. It would take a team of "muscular citizens" who seek out the person responsible for the evil, and invite him to bring back "the iniquitous or imbecilic measure", under penalty of restoring "in the code the penalty of corporal punishment". But " - Lebureau is irresponsible, says the judge. - Lebureau you undermined him," said the team of muscular citizens, "Lebureau must pay". Reboux's story was a joke, but Lebureau can have criminal actions: "It is the irresponsibility of the named Lebureau that keeps our country in a state of misery [...] Lebureau who doesn't want the fishermen to give us cheap fish because an article 37 of a regulation of the Public Administration of the year IV before Jesus Christ..." And Galmot concludes: "It is necessary to constitute a Tribunal and to establish sanctions. I register for the first beating to give "...