Marcel PAGNOL (1895-1974). 3 L.A.S., [19547-1966, to Jérôme Carcopino]; 7 and a half pages in-4. Cagnes July 11, 1957. About his "translation in verse of the Bucolics"; in his preface, he names Carcopino "Prince of Latinists". He asks him about two verses that put him in "great anxiety [...] I am working under Virgil's olive trees, next to a very small spring called Fontaine des Palombes"... Saturday [1959]. He is resting before a small operation on his jaw. He is sorry not to be able to come to Verneuil, "because I have a great admiration for Jean de la Varende, whom I had the honor to be on first-name terms with, and I am going to ask his publishers to collect his complete works [...] His failure at the Academy is for me a deplorable memory"... Paris October 31, 1966. About the academic candidacy of Paul Vialar, his friend of forty years: "we have been poor and unknown together. At the moment, there is a very violent campaign against him; they say that he is divorced, which from the point of view of the Church is false; they say that his wife died of grief, even though she had planted a beautiful pair of horns. It is said that he is going to marry a billionaire, which is unfortunately false. It is that he does not have only friends, because of the very large print runs of his books, which often exceed 200 and even 250,000. One went to call [Pierre-Henri] Simon to throw him in the legs at the last moment "...