Henri JEANSON (1900-1970). Autograph manuscript signed, [December 1958]; 8 pages in-4 on blue paper (printer's marks, small tear at one corner). On the occasion of the 700th issue of Arts (December 10, 1958) Jeanson pays tribute to the free, non-committal spirit of the magazine: Baudelaire, Nerval, Sainte-Beuve, Beaumarchais, Rivarol, Chénier, Vallès, Diderot, Veuillot would have found a place in it, "because tolerance is the beginning of liberty." He imagines the treatment of current events in two hundred years: Jean Bardot, Brigitte XXIII, Luis Mariano and Jean-François Revel, etc. He quotes the "problem of the youth" attacked or drawn up by Aymé, Anouilh, J.-R. Huguenin; astonishing papers and polemics of R. Huyghe, Parinaud, J. Laurent, Ionesco, Truffaut? Lars Schmidt and that Mr. Lars Schmidt retorts, that Philippe Soupault turns the tables and resurrects Antonin Artaud [...] It is here that good people feel at home"...