Henri JEANSON (1900-1970). Autograph manuscript signed, [December 1958]; 8 pages in-4 on blue paper (printer's marks, small tear at corner). On the occasion of the 700th issue of Arts (December 10, 1958), Jeanson pays tribute to the free, non-committal spirit of the magazine: Baudelaire, Nerval, Sainte-Beuve, Beaumarchais, Rivarol, Chénier, Vallès, Diderot, Veuillot would have found a place in it, "for tolerance is the beginning of freedom"... He imagines the treatment of current affairs in two hundred years' time: Jean Bardot, Brigitte XXIII, Luis Mariano and Jean-François Revel, etc. He cites the "problem of youthfulness", "the problem of the young". He cites the "problem of youth" attacked or raised by Aymé, Anouilh, J.-R. Huguenin; astonishing papers and polemics by R. Huyghe, Parinaud, J. Laurent, Ionesco, Truffaut... Arts, c'est ici " que Jean-Louis Barrault crile "au secours on m'assassine", que René Clair dénonce la démagogie du cinéma, que Ionesco insulte M. Lars Schmidt et M. Lars Schmidt. Lars Schmidt and Mr. Lars Schmidt retorts, Philippe Soupault turns tables and resurrects Antonin Artaud [...] It's here that good people feel at home"...