Maurice CLAVEL (1920-1979). Autograph manuscript signed, Jea - Lot 177

Maurice CLAVEL (1920-1979). Autograph manuscript signed, Jeanne et ses auteurs, [1956]; 9 pages in-4 (qqs leaves cut out for typesetting, printer's marks). On Joan of Arc. Article for the weekly Arts, by the author of La Grande Pitié du Royaume de France (1956). Clavel discusses Anouilh's L'Alouette, Péguy's Jeanne d'Arc, modern criticism, Anatole France's Vie, Thierry Maulnier's Jeanne d'Arc et ses juges, and more. He wonders about her sanctity, which he links to her martyrdom, about her pursuit of war, which makes her an adventurer whom the King had to disown, about Joan's will, and her relationship to Grace. It wasn't about liberating the land, like Gambetta or De Gaulle. "Hence the sanctity of her mission, far beyond patriotism... a warrior for the peace of fields and gardens, victorious first of all through this peace, which was within her"...