111

LARGUIER Léo (1878-1950).

The item was sold for 520

Fees include commission and taxes.

Back to auction
LARGUIER Léo (1878-1950).
Autograph manuscript of a diary, May 15-November 1940| 52 pages in-fol.
Chronicles the debacle and the beginning of the Occupation.
Frequent alerts, empty cafés, absent friends (Dorgelès, Carco, René Benjamin): Larguier fled to Chevreuse: "All I took with me was a suitcase and the manuscript of Le Temps passé, my asylum, my chartreuse, my only refuge"... A few days later, a crowded train took him to Viales in Lozère (population 500)... Larguier had pasted into his manuscript some L.A.S. from Princess Ernest d'ARENBERG and René BENJAMIN, press clippings concerning the armistice and occupied Paris... Daily life in Viales under the shadow of war... Memories of childhood and youth... News from Vichy... In November, he meets René Benjamin in Nîmes, who tells him about Marshal Pétain's confidences on the Montoire interview... Larguier rereads the Goncourt diary...
Attached are a few autograph notes, plus a press clipping on Abel Hermant's arrest at the Liberation.