Thierry MAULNIER (1909-1988). Signed autograph manuscript, Grandeur de la monarchie, [1939 ?] ; 9 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. In praise of the monarchical regime. Maulnier analyses the economic and political situation in Europe and hopes that the harshness of the times will be fruitful and lead France to choose a regime that is neither anarchic nor tyrannical, as are liberalism and totalitarianism. Democracy is divided, therefore weak, and its unanimity can only be violence or myth. What remains, then, is the monarchy, an admirable synthesis of the individual and the collective, and the king, who must be "the Driver, Duce or Führer, but also [...] the protector of his people and the arbitrator between the forces that confront them [...] high enough above all interests to serve none. The true dignity, the true effectiveness, the true humanity of power is only in the monarchy....