Marcel JOUHANDEAU (1888-1979). 2 autograph manuscripts; 8 ff. in-8, 4 of which on squared binder paper. Enclosed is an autograph envelope dated May 13, 1960. La vieille Louise (fragments with numerous erasures and corrections). Evocation of a couple of miserable old concierges in the 14th arrondissement; then on Élise who "rarely speaks: it's one of her greatnesses. She sometimes talks like a phonograph, and I don't listen to her"...; then follows a conversation between the servants Marguerite, Florentine and Ernestine... Éloge de la volupté, notes in a folder titled: "I sometimes experience in my dreams a voluptuousness of such a rare quality that it's no longer worth living: it won't be found again Awake, how can one suspend half one's senses, to be nothing but gaze and tact? I seem to have belonged to a world without odor, mute, deaf, whose delicacy makes you feel out of place in this one"... Quote from Mérimée, etc. Enclosed is an autograph envelope, dated May 13, 1960, addressed to Louis Sautier in Nancy, with the note "envoi de M. Jouhandeau".