Marie-Noëlle dite Minou DROUET (born in 1947). L.A.S., November 6, 1957, [to the publisher Albert Mermoud], and autograph poem signed, Le petit galet; 1 page and a half and 2 pages in-8. Letter and poem from the young poetess prodigy, aged ten. She sends poems that can be adapted to Louis Andrieux's photos: "he and I do not want text and image to stick too closely together [...] You would please me by telling me if you like my poems. It's funny, I'm always so afraid of disappointing. On the cover, we could put a photo of me that Louis has just taken. I am neither beautiful nor ugly - I am me, with all the anguish and dreams and distance that entails, - detached, on the move towards something else"...- The little pebble, on a pink sheet, is composed of 17 free lines: "I look like a little girl, but no, I'm nothing but a little pebble, all soft and round"... On the back, Minou Drouet explains in pencil that this is the first poem she ever wrote, at the age of seven, and that she would like to see it on the first page of the book in preparation. She adds that she would like to write the few lines about herself: "Who can better express the truth about the heart of the snail, than the snail itself?