Léon BLUM. 3 autograph manuscripts; 10 pages in-8 and 9 pages in-4, with erasures and corrections. Draft of speech on the Popular Front (Clermont-Ferrand 1935 ?; 9 p. in-4 in pencil, letterhead Chambre des députés). "No appeal to the soc. All [...] Feel the gravity of the battle. No appeal to the com. - Double pact [...] Front Pop. with all those who fight. [...] The oath. The Popular Front risks nothing [...] Our titles 12 February Doumergue Font Pop. Ready everywhere"... Etc. Exercer-Imposer, draft of speech to the House, [1936] (8 p. in-8 in pencil). "The Ch. has not forgotten the language the Govt. gave it last Saturday. We told him that, in labor disputes, the government would assume its role of mediation and arbitration. We asked him to strengthen our will with his sovereign will so that [the] government could impose authority. [...] To govern is to foresee. Yes May it is also to put itself frankly in front of the present difficulties and of the immediate reality ". On the Universal Exhibition of 1937 (2 p. in-8 with the letterhead Presidency of the Council): "The men who conceived the plan of the Universal Exhibition had bound themselves to difficulties without number and without measure. They undertook to erect in the very heart of the City, an immense new city"... Attached is a large file of typescripts: speeches, conferences, declarations, duplicate letters to Daladier, duplicate notes given to Blum by J. Rueff or M. Rucart, etc.; plus newspapers and press clippings.