Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE (1883-1945). L.A.S., [Paris] 6 Square Alboni March 12, 1919, to the poet Renée de Brimont; 2 pages in-8. "You live in an atmosphere that would be so dear to me. You are a real woman. Your poetry is content to express your femininity. There is enough to be satisfied with. I read many pages of your book last night and on Sunday I heard a symphony by Haydn. I felt a vigorous elegance. But you often let your vigor falter. I mean that you indulge in images or chords that, for me, have been loved too much. So this nostalgic dilection, which opposes my exalted expectation of a whole strange and dangerous world that is sketched out in cruelly precise fragments, keeps me away from your art. But I allow myself to tell you the respectful and essential sympathy that I nourish for what you reveal lightly and prudently of your soul " ....