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CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand (1894 - 1961)
14 L.A.S. (mostly signed with initials or initials) and 1 P.A., [Klarskovgaard February-March 1950], to Thorvald MIKKELSEN| 31 pages fol.
Letters to his Danish lawyer about his trial before the Court of Justice.
[Tried on February 21, 1950 before the Court of Justice, Céline will be sentenced in absentia to one year in prison, 50,000 francs fine, and to a state of national indignity, with confiscation of half his property].
- February 1 [February]. He would like to receive "a copy of the letter of Guy de
La Charbonnière [Guy de CHARBONNIÈRES, ambassador of France in
Denmark] to the Danish Foreign Affairs asking for my arrest at K.M. JENSEN". It is winter: the Baltic is frozen and Lucette cannot swim anymore...
- The 4th: "Lucette has overcome the Baltic. The proof that it thaws!" He has found a new "very ardent" defender, the illustrious French Jewish surgeon
MONDOR of the French Academy"...
- 6th: "I believe that the Communist press has gone completely wild.
Epilepsy! These jackals see the Beast escape. [...] Letter of PAULHAN full of wisdom!"...
- The 13th. He asks Mikkelsen to send 10 copies of his first Defense to Master NAUD. He feels sorry for the fate of poor FRITSCH, friend of the Jews, militant of Israel
Israel activist who is outraged post-mortem. "It is no longer of any use to be good to the Jews, but it is of great use to be bad to them, that's for sure and that's ALL. On the positive side, they are no longer worth anything to us. On the negative side, they can still do a lot of harm, a lot of damage.
You will see it on the 21st! The Duke Mayer of Vendome!"
- The 14th. About a letter from "BISMUTH, a Jew, director of the Libertaire anarchiste who has taken the lead in the movement for my defense and rehabilitation with the Chief Rabbi of France", which "will not change anything in the Diktat of the Place Vendôme"...
- The 16th. He sends a letter from Daragnès and "another friendly letter from Marcel Aymé"...
- After the trial, Céline sends a clipping from Libération (attached), reporting the hearing: "Here is the article by the most hateful of the Franco-Jewish hyenas, Madeleine JACOB [...] I find it, my God, quite moderate, completely idiotic, mendacious, but insignificant"...
- The 28th. He is tired of the campaign that Land og Folk continues to lead against him, and would like to return to France if he is sure not to go back to prison: "I will not commit suicide in your place, don't worry! I'll go to France to do it if they let me. But not in prison if possible.
In the open air!"...
- The 28th. He hopes that his 18 months in prison in Denmark will be declared "equivalent to my conviction by the French Court", but he needs a note from the Danish Justice, "specifying clearly that I was incarcerated in
Denmark in execution of the Paris warrant issued against me [...] and not at all as a result of a Danish police measure"...
- On the 1st [March]. About Mikkelsen's American friends who are to come to Paris| Céline is ready to alert his friend GEOFFROY "who loves to speak American. These Americans must already be asking for the Parisian edition of the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper which appears in Paris in English and which contains a hundred advertisements intended for this kind of tourist"...
- On the 5th, he fears that the Danish prison is not considered equivalent to the French prison "My enemies are active, ardent, electric, scorpions, demonic... !"
- The 7th. About the letter of a lady who lends him "the atrocious locution
To work from the roof... That deserves to be hanged! Such vulgarity!
It would be necessary (but she will not be able) that this lady can understand that CELINE can be frightfully coarse but never vulgar.
He can't"...
- On the 23rd. "Finally untouchable, unworthy, unworthy, unworthy, I risk a little whisper... Attention to the cupboards! Closets of the
Bonbonnière! There will never be enough. And there you have it! The blunder is made.
You were certainly waiting for this very humble suggestion to forbid the carpenter to build any! [...] I repeat that there should be cupboards everywhere [...] Never enough cupboards". It is the examining magistrate
ZOUSSMAN who had issued the warrant against him in 1944| he hoped that "the divine Danish Justice" would write the note he was asking for...
- 29th: "Here at last are the cursed but indispensable documents!
- The 31st. He calls him again to obtain this paper from the Danish Justice, whose absence prevents Naud from acting: "This can be done very quickly since it is a simple recording, a few words stipulating that I was arrested and kept for so many months in a cell only in execution of the arrest warrant of the Court of Justice of Paris signed by Mr Zoussmann.
[I would be very happy not to have to return to the cell in France, which will happen if things drag on and on... Because I want to go back to
France, soon, anyway. I feel too sick now, too exhausted after so many years in prison.
14 L.A.S. (mostly signed with initials or initials) and 1 P.A., [Klarskovgaard February-March 1950], to Thorvald MIKKELSEN| 31 pages fol.
Letters to his Danish lawyer about his trial before the Court of Justice.
[Tried on February 21, 1950 before the Court of Justice, Céline will be sentenced in absentia to one year in prison, 50,000 francs fine, and to a state of national indignity, with confiscation of half his property].
- February 1 [February]. He would like to receive "a copy of the letter of Guy de
La Charbonnière [Guy de CHARBONNIÈRES, ambassador of France in
Denmark] to the Danish Foreign Affairs asking for my arrest at K.M. JENSEN". It is winter: the Baltic is frozen and Lucette cannot swim anymore...
- The 4th: "Lucette has overcome the Baltic. The proof that it thaws!" He has found a new "very ardent" defender, the illustrious French Jewish surgeon
MONDOR of the French Academy"...
- 6th: "I believe that the Communist press has gone completely wild.
Epilepsy! These jackals see the Beast escape. [...] Letter of PAULHAN full of wisdom!"...
- The 13th. He asks Mikkelsen to send 10 copies of his first Defense to Master NAUD. He feels sorry for the fate of poor FRITSCH, friend of the Jews, militant of Israel
Israel activist who is outraged post-mortem. "It is no longer of any use to be good to the Jews, but it is of great use to be bad to them, that's for sure and that's ALL. On the positive side, they are no longer worth anything to us. On the negative side, they can still do a lot of harm, a lot of damage.
You will see it on the 21st! The Duke Mayer of Vendome!"
- The 14th. About a letter from "BISMUTH, a Jew, director of the Libertaire anarchiste who has taken the lead in the movement for my defense and rehabilitation with the Chief Rabbi of France", which "will not change anything in the Diktat of the Place Vendôme"...
- The 16th. He sends a letter from Daragnès and "another friendly letter from Marcel Aymé"...
- After the trial, Céline sends a clipping from Libération (attached), reporting the hearing: "Here is the article by the most hateful of the Franco-Jewish hyenas, Madeleine JACOB [...] I find it, my God, quite moderate, completely idiotic, mendacious, but insignificant"...
- The 28th. He is tired of the campaign that Land og Folk continues to lead against him, and would like to return to France if he is sure not to go back to prison: "I will not commit suicide in your place, don't worry! I'll go to France to do it if they let me. But not in prison if possible.
In the open air!"...
- The 28th. He hopes that his 18 months in prison in Denmark will be declared "equivalent to my conviction by the French Court", but he needs a note from the Danish Justice, "specifying clearly that I was incarcerated in
Denmark in execution of the Paris warrant issued against me [...] and not at all as a result of a Danish police measure"...
- On the 1st [March]. About Mikkelsen's American friends who are to come to Paris| Céline is ready to alert his friend GEOFFROY "who loves to speak American. These Americans must already be asking for the Parisian edition of the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper which appears in Paris in English and which contains a hundred advertisements intended for this kind of tourist"...
- On the 5th, he fears that the Danish prison is not considered equivalent to the French prison "My enemies are active, ardent, electric, scorpions, demonic... !"
- The 7th. About the letter of a lady who lends him "the atrocious locution
To work from the roof... That deserves to be hanged! Such vulgarity!
It would be necessary (but she will not be able) that this lady can understand that CELINE can be frightfully coarse but never vulgar.
He can't"...
- On the 23rd. "Finally untouchable, unworthy, unworthy, unworthy, I risk a little whisper... Attention to the cupboards! Closets of the
Bonbonnière! There will never be enough. And there you have it! The blunder is made.
You were certainly waiting for this very humble suggestion to forbid the carpenter to build any! [...] I repeat that there should be cupboards everywhere [...] Never enough cupboards". It is the examining magistrate
ZOUSSMAN who had issued the warrant against him in 1944| he hoped that "the divine Danish Justice" would write the note he was asking for...
- 29th: "Here at last are the cursed but indispensable documents!
- The 31st. He calls him again to obtain this paper from the Danish Justice, whose absence prevents Naud from acting: "This can be done very quickly since it is a simple recording, a few words stipulating that I was arrested and kept for so many months in a cell only in execution of the arrest warrant of the Court of Justice of Paris signed by Mr Zoussmann.
[I would be very happy not to have to return to the cell in France, which will happen if things drag on and on... Because I want to go back to
France, soon, anyway. I feel too sick now, too exhausted after so many years in prison.