BATAILLE (Marie-Louise) (1899-1966). The Atomic Adventures. In French, model of a cartoon book, with texts in ink and pencil and drawings (gouache). France, s.l.n.d., after 1945, 1950s (?). Loose leaf inserted in the book signed "Marie Louise Bataille". Painted cover, not bound, work in sheets under folder + 3 ff. not bound. Dimensions : 250 x 330 mmMarie-Louise Bataille was an art historian and a woman of letters : she was the cousin of Georges Bataille . The book begins with the presentation of the characters, "I am proton / I am neutron". This little work mixes caricature and reflection on the "atomic bomb" and seems to have been a model project, with some passages still in pencil sketches.