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BRETON André (1896-1966)

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BRETON André (1896 - 1966)
L.A.S. "André Breton," Paris October 26, 1962, to Madeleine CHAPSAL| 1 page in-4, envelope.
"Two months ago I told you how much I praised your procedures toward me and how much I appreciated the offer of your friendship. I was told by you, on the other hand, that the editorial staff of L'Express had made much of the remarks we had exchanged and I was delighted, hoping that in the future I would be spared a rather unjustifiable malice on the part of a newspaper with which I could believe myself to be in sympathy with ideas and which seemed to me to result from a misunderstanding. Allow me to let you judge what it is [...]. However seasoned I may be in this kind of venom, do you think that one could be more infamous than this Mr. Cournot of the "yellow laughter", accumulate more prejudicial lies and vileness?
In the press it seems to me that, on the means of harming, one is more scrupulous almost everywhere else. I would be curious to know how the editor of L'Express can respond to the desire of L'Express with defamation...
4 press photographs of Breton interviewed in his office by Madeleine Chapsal are attached.