Émile Chartier dit ALAIN (1868-1951). Autograph manuscript signed, Propos d'un Normand, [1910]; 2 pages in-8. Reflection on disarmament. This article was published in La Dépêche de Rouen on September 17, 1910. "Disarmament is a bad word; for every free people must be armed, since the unjust are always armed. What we must want is another kind of armament. We are currently armed for external intervention, for the offensive, for conquest. We follow the tradition of the first Empire; that is our mistake. We concentrate and maneuver large armies; this is an invader's method; we want to apply it to defense; this is absurd and it leads opinion astray"... Etc.