GRASSET (Bernard) French publisher (1881-1955)... - Lot 20 - Goxe - Belaisch - Hôtel des ventes d'Enghien

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GRASSET (Bernard) French publisher (1881-1955)... - Lot 20 - Goxe - Belaisch - Hôtel des ventes d'Enghien
GRASSET (Bernard) French publisher (1881-1955) Set of 2 autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed with autograph additions. They are addressed to Georgette and to Ivan Martin, who was director general of the Social Insurance, and director of the cabinet of Hubert Lagardelle under Vichy. 7 p. _ of various sizes. Around 1950. From Maintenon, Divonne-les-Bains and Saint-Tropez. About the story he is preparing, a story that will be titled: "Comprendre et inventer" (Understand and invent), to be published in 1953. He wrote to them on September 12, 1950, while at a spa in Divonne-les-Bains, still tormented by the confirmation of his conviction, and with the consequences of having recourse to hydrotherapy cures as well as to health centers for his health. He will show him his account as soon as he returns to Paris. "I started to write this story to which you attach importance, as I do. And I worked so hard on it that I compromised my cure. It is that this story leads me to a total confession, and to a plunge into the most painful things of my past [...] Obviously, I would not have obliged myself so imperiously to this story, if I knew that my lawyers understood well that the matrimonial question is for me of even greater importance than the pending affair. I wanted precisely in my writing, to make the unity of two things; because this unity exists in the facts... ".
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