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SAINT-EXUPÉRY Antoine de (1900-1944).
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Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY
Draft letter, [New York, December 17, 1942], addressed to Jacques MARITAIN. 4 sheets in-4, white linen paper, with watermark "Onion Skin. Made in U.S.A." (erasures, corrections).
This letter is to be placed in the context of the controversy with the philosopher Jacques Maritain. To summarize, Saint-Exupéry, without wanting to choose between de Gaulle and Vichy, wanted all French people to forget their differences and, in an ideal of human fraternity, to unite in the fight against the common enemy. On November 29, 1942, he broadcast on the airwaves his appeal to the French people entitled "D'abord la France" (First France), which caused a great controversy. When he learned that the philosopher Jacques Maritain, a revered figure in the expatriate intelligentsia, was going to react with a virulent article in the press, Saint-Exupéry was upset. He did not like to be drawn into polemics, but felt obliged to reply: he wrote a reply, which appeared following Maritain's reaction, in the same review (19 December 1942) and, at the same time, a personal letter addressed directly to Maritain, also on 19 May. These four sheets are a first state of the published letter (cf. Pléiade, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, p. 74-78), announcing some passages, already drawing the plan.
François-Louis SCHMIED (2 pieces) is attached.
Draft letter, [New York, December 17, 1942], addressed to Jacques MARITAIN. 4 sheets in-4, white linen paper, with watermark "Onion Skin. Made in U.S.A." (erasures, corrections).
This letter is to be placed in the context of the controversy with the philosopher Jacques Maritain. To summarize, Saint-Exupéry, without wanting to choose between de Gaulle and Vichy, wanted all French people to forget their differences and, in an ideal of human fraternity, to unite in the fight against the common enemy. On November 29, 1942, he broadcast on the airwaves his appeal to the French people entitled "D'abord la France" (First France), which caused a great controversy. When he learned that the philosopher Jacques Maritain, a revered figure in the expatriate intelligentsia, was going to react with a virulent article in the press, Saint-Exupéry was upset. He did not like to be drawn into polemics, but felt obliged to reply: he wrote a reply, which appeared following Maritain's reaction, in the same review (19 December 1942) and, at the same time, a personal letter addressed directly to Maritain, also on 19 May. These four sheets are a first state of the published letter (cf. Pléiade, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, p. 74-78), announcing some passages, already drawing the plan.
François-Louis SCHMIED (2 pieces) is attached.