Roger PEYREFITTE (1907-2000). L.A.S. (initialled), April 26-29, 1941, [to Henry de Montherlant]; 13 pages in-8. Very long letter, partly unpublished, on Les Amitiés particulières (Correspondance, cxvii). Peyrefitte announces the death of his father: "Struck down on Wednesday evening by a cerebral congestion, which his 86 years of age made hopeless in advance, my poor father died, painlessly, very gently, yesterday evening, exactly 48 hours after his attack. He recounts the wake, the sadness, the feelings that assailed him, etc. He still wants to settle in Toulouse, and devote himself to his work: "The hunt is over, or almost. I will only look for sure things on French soil, that is to say, a sure thing. The death of my father frees me from these apprehensions that I had expressed to you, but I want one year, at least still, to be without difficulties, for my novel [Les Amitiés particulières], which [...] can be very good ". This is also what keeps him away from Africa: "the atmosphere of my book is essentially French and provincial. I would consider myself a fool and a foolish person to compromise the completion of a work that holds me more and more in its bowels. The "poor Chev." [the "Chevalier", Henry Houssaye], who is in prison for a pedophile scandal in Cusset, makes him feel sorry, and he tries to help him as he can, sends him books; he is going to visit him soon in Cusset "to read him my papers" [Les Amitiés particulières]... Having learned that children under 15 years of age could travel freely between the two zones, he wanted to change his program and asked Montherlant for his opinion: although he was certain that he had a safe boy in Toulouse, he wanted to return to Paris: "I am delirious at the idea of having, with me, at home, in high school, one of my two safe girls from Paris. You don't have to worry about mothers: "You just have to know how to present the pill. In this day and age, it is something to know that one's little girl is safe for a year, and in the abundance that is allowed. He weighs the pros and cons, between the three boys and the two mothers: what to choose? He has a friend at the German Embassy: "An important indication: if the New Order is established [...] I have a man of my own [...] at the German Embassy: Aschenbach, who was Welzeck's secretary and is, at present, Abetz's secretary [...] he is the great man of the Rue de Lille [German Embassy] [...]. In short, if it was necessary to have recourse to these gentlemen, in my favor [...] you could address yourself there, sure to be favorably received on two counts"... He asks him to obtain an ausweiss for him, because nothing can be refused to Montherlant: "you are, over there, the man to whom one makes a golden bridge"... He feared that the N. family would feel played by them, and that the Gestapo, in spite of Aschenbach's protection, would blackmail them: "Since these gentlemen of the Gestapo know everything [...] they must not be unaware that these daughters are your natural daughters - and so the blackmail begins. Etc.