Maurice CLAVEL (1920-1979). Autograph manuscript signed, Jeanne et ses auteurs, [1956]; 9 pages in-4 (qqs leaves cut out for composition, printer's marks). On Joan of Arc. Article intended for the weekly Arts, by the author of La Grande Pitié du Royaume de France (1956). Clavel evokes L'Alouette of Anouilh, the Joan of Arc of Péguy, the modern criticism, the Life of Anatole France, the Joan of Arc and her judges of Thierry Maulnier, etc. He wonders about her holiness, which he links to her martyrdom, about her pursuit of war, which makes her an adventurer that the King had to disavow, about Joan's will, and her relationship to Grace. It was not a question of liberating the territory, in the manner of Gambetta or De Gaulle. "Hence the sanctity of her mission, far beyond patriotism... a warrior for the peace of the fields and gardens, victorious first of all by this peace, which was in her"...