Antoine de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (1862-1959) painter and collector. L.S., Ménilles (Eure) December 23, 1937, to a painter and engraver friend [Émile Bernard?]; 1 page and a quarter in-4 typed. He was delighted to receive the album containing reproductions of his friend's works: "They were a powerful moral comfort to me. I am happy to contemplate in the silence of my country house your beautiful compositions which are so closely related to the Art of the Masters and at the same time affirm your strong personality. The first pages reminded me of the already distant time when you were looking for your way in symbolism and the struggles of a combative youth against academic art that was anaemic, empty, factitious, worn out to the core "... He explains the causes of his loneliness, and his ignorance of the "current pictorial movement": material worries, grief, trembling: "I haven't held a brush for a long time... In this, perhaps I am being punished for having loved and practiced too much integral Tachism, wrongly called "Pointillism"..." "...