Henri-René LENORMAND (1882-1951). Autograph manuscript, [ca. 1935-1938]; 12 pages and a quarter in-8 on yellow paper with erasures and corrections. Speech in response to an evening dedicated to him by the Friends of 1914, or Académie de la Coupole, an association of intellectuals founded by François Bernouard. He evokes the difficult and mysterious work of the playwright, before concluding on the threats which weigh on the culture... The manuscript of a talk on Jean Cocteau (about 1935, 2 p. and quarter in-fol.), of which we were not able to identify the author, which reports Cocteau's remarks, is joined.