André BRETON. L.A.S., Antibes 13 March 1948, to Francis Dumont; 1 page and a half in-4. Breton is reluctant to a project of testimonies on Surrealism... "As far as the Gazette des Lettres project is concerned, I can't see myself playing the role you're assigning me. "A quarter of a century...", no doubt, but this is the last commemoration in which I can take part. I have no desire to measure myself on this occasion with the "ex-surrealists of the C.N.E." whom you believe you should consult and whose testimony I reject in advance. Do these gentlemen ever offer me a discussion? "... He rather advises to question young surrealists such as Sarane Alexandrian, Claude Tarnaud, Alain Jouffroy, Jean-Louis Bédouin, Gaston Puel. "I assure you that it would be much less futile than hoping to get a statement from Picasso, for example, who refused all his life to such statements and whom I would certainly not want to solicit"...