Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. L.A.S. "LFC", [Korsør] January 12 [1949], to Dr. Odette Poulain, with signed typescript; 2 pages in-fol. and 18 pages in-4 typewritten (carbon copy), stamped envelope. "For fun, here are the charges against me, for which I have already served 18 months' imprisonment - in absolute secrecy. Recently Thorwald Mikkelsen, my Danish lawyer, went to see my examining magistrate in Paris. No new "facts" have been added to my file in 4 years! And God knows we've been looking for it! But if the Krauts are "Ia!", the French are "ha! When they've committed themselves to bullshit they become rabid chicks - "ha!" They want my death "ha!" so they'll get it "ha!" The French are always right "ha! They're the world's foremost jurists "ha!" the world's smartest pain in the ass "ha!". Nothing to do "ha!""... Responses to the charges brought against me by the French Justice system for treason, reproduced by the Danish Judicial Police during my interrogations, typescript dated at the end "November 6, 1946": Céline is accused of having written Guignol's Band and Histoire de Bezons for German propaganda, of having been an honorary member of the Cercle européen, of having pushed for an aggravation of anti-Semitic persecution, and he exposes his relations with the Occupier, his literary relations with Germany, the unjust accusation of anti-Semitic persecution and the denunciation of Dr. Rouquès, etc. Attached is a L.A.S. from Charles Deshayes to Céline, weighing Céline's chances of receiving only hard labor (3p. in-4).