Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918). L.A.S., June 30, 1911, to René Lenormand; 1 page in-8 at his address (mourning). You're absolutely right to write that we shouldn't try to explain everything, and yet your analyses are extremely subtle! But you'll see that your example will give rise to terrible glosses, for you know as well as I do that most people hear poorly, or better still, only fragmentarily ... [René Lenormand (1846-1932) was preparing a study on modern harmony].