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MORAND Paul (1888 - 1976) 19 L.A.S., 1952-1962, à André PARINAUD, et 2 TAP

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MORAND Paul (1888 - 1976) 19 L.A.S., 1952-1962, to André PARINAUD, and 2 corrected and signed TAPUSCRITS| 19 pages various sizes, a few envelopes, and 5 pages in-4.
Friendly and literary correspondence, mainly concerning his collaboration on the magazine La Parisienne, and the weekly Arts, of which Parinaud is editor-in-chief.
He brings him a text: "De l'influence des prostituées françaises sur la civilisation et sa diffusion. This is the idea, if not the title" (XI.1952).
He asks to correct the proofs of his texts, and prepares a note on Stendhal. He suggests sending issues of La Parisienne to Armand Godoy, who has "bibliophilic marvels I'd like to share with La Parisienne" (June 1953).
1954. Thanks for an article on Hécate, "full of accuracy and taste". Fine text on Courbet's Toilette de la mariée, exhibited in London: "On all these blank pages, the bride has not yet written her destiny"... Memories of his scandalous debut at the N.R.F.: "in 1922, with my first books, a scandal made all the more picturesque by the fact that I was the first poor man there to be rich in royalties, in the midst of poor millionaires (Gide, Schlumberger etc.) who didn't forgive me any more than the rest of the Left Bank (oh yes, Left)".
1955. On the Académie française: "I would have liked to be in the Académie at 45 when I was old. After a quarter of a century, I'm young, free of all constraints, having escaped the honors I've always loathed, too free to put back on my head a cocked bicorn I've worn for 32 years. [...] I haven't lived in France since 1943. [...] The status of foreigner is really the only one that now allows me to live, and I'm not about to give it up"...
1956. on the death of Walter de la Mare: "It's much more important than T.S. Eliot. Claudel held him not only as a great poet, but as the genius of the uncanny"| announcement of Ginette Guitard-Auviste's book on him.
1957. Testimony on Paris-Presse, the only newspaper to bring together "such a team of columnists, writers, so vivacious, so gifted, so enemies of intellectual comfort and so happily imprudent"... Etc.
The two typescripts, corrected, are: Retour à Marco Polo, sur les voyageurs, and Le travail, voilà l'ennemi?
Attached is a letter sent by mounted balloon, Paris December 27, 1870, to Cahors.