Jacques MARITAIN (1882-1973). Typescript, À travers le désastre, [1945?]; 75 pages in-4 (carbon copy). Complete typescript of this analysis of the 1940 defeat, published in 1941 in New-York, at the Maison française, then clandestinely in Paris, at the Éditions de Minuit, the following year, and finally publicly, in 1945. The typescript bears this mention, above the place of publication: "This volume published at the expense of a patriot was completed under the Nazi occupation on November 12, 1942"... Attached is the typescript of the lawyer Manon Cormier's account of her arrest by the Gestapo, transfer to Bordeaux, deportation to the camps of Lauban and Ravensbrück (10 p.). Plus a L.A.S. from Jacques Maritain to Robert de Saint-Jean, New York September 13, 1943 (1 p. in-8, letterhead and vignette Hotel Lafayette).