Laurent TAILHADE. Autograph poem signed, and autograph manuscript signed; 1 page in-fol. and 8 pages in-4 (small tear to one leaf). An old-fashioned ballad of autumnal consolation (35 lines): "You know it, oh you who were my mie, This haughty park strewn with golden leaves"... Article collected in the posthumous work Les Reflets de Paris (1918-1919) published by Jean Fort in 1921; it was used for printing and is paginated 7 to 15; it bears typographical corrections and annotations. "Did Leon Trotsky make a mistake?" While Trotsky is under attack, Tailhade returns to the visit of Nicholas II in 1901 and castigates the attitude of the French government, Delcassé, Edmond Rostand... " In a sort of incoercible nausea, we wrote in an avant-garde sheet a pamphlet that was quite violent, even for this era of violence: "The Triumph of Domesticity" which earned him a year in prison at the Santé. But he had spoken as a prophet: "what we wrote [...] is today the opinion of all. But we must not go further than the human cattle. Otherwise the courts, the bourgeois horde of friends and enemies, will make you see the bejaune and recognize your mistakes. It is the same for Trotsky, for Lenin. The golden bellies, the only object of French veneration, do not forgive the Russian revolution, for having pushed further than one thousand eight hundred and thirty...