Léo LARGUIER (1878-1950). 3 autograph manuscripts signed, and 23 L.A.S. to Pierre LHOSTE; 28 pages in-4, and 30 pages mostly in-8. The Old Soldiers (6 p.) Moving text on the uprooting of soldiers, on his tenderness for the old soldiers, on his memories of the first world war, on the war of 40, thanks to his meeting with an old comrade of combat... November 11, 1918, 5 hours 40... (8 p.) Larguier, who received the telegram of the Marshal Foch addressed to the military chiefs of the Front announcing the end of the fights, tells his impressions at the armistice: "It was finished! The war was over! All the aspects of this bloody adventure that had lasted for four inhuman years suddenly appeared to me". All the memories came back, but nothing around him marked the heroism of the moment: "what was more grandiose than the acclamations, the tumult and the joy of the capitals, it was the silence of this devastated country, the sudden silence imposed to the explosives, to the formidable anger of the guns. The horizon of hills, still dangerous a few hours ago, was now bathed in a recollected softness"... The Last Message to my grandson (10 p. + 4 p. of introduction). Beautiful text written for the radio : " You are going to hear, in our column of the last messages, what Léo Larguier, of the Academy Goncourt, could say to his grandson Laurent if he was, what Gods do not please, in the last quarter of hour of this life that he called the human stage, because you will notice that the great poet of the Shadows and the Quatrains of autumn does not say once the death "... Friendly and literary correspondence. "I thank you with all my heart. I have read Gil Blas, and your article touches me very much because it comes from you. I read you every week with joy and, as Father Veuillot used to say, I wipe my bezicles when I see your name"; thanks and requests for articles, news of vacations, of his health: "All the newspapers have spoken about it! I found myself ill at 2 Magots"; he hopes that Albin Michel sent him Mes vingt ans et moi "this crazy book since it contains 8,000 verses"; he sends a text for the radio, a pilgrimage to the tomb of the Goncourts at the Cimetière Montmartre with the Academy, etc. Two autographed quatrains in violet ink are enclosed: Dernier quatrain, À un Poëte; and 1er Monotones quatrains.