Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). L.A.S. "Louis", January 28 [1945, to painter Frans Masereel]; 1page in-4. After Romain Rolland's death. Aragon returns from the Landes, where the doctor has sent him to rest, and falls back "into a snowy Paris where one dies, strictly speaking, of cold. And disgust too, but that's another story". He automatically enrolled Masereel in the Comité Romain Rolland: "I don't know if our initiative will get R.R. into the Pantheon: there are hypocritical counter-maneuvers (and Trucmuche, by the way?) and there are well-meaning people, like Arcos, who remembers just in time to teach us a lesson that R.R. has somehow misspoken about the Pantheon! If only he knew how much I didn't care! Finally, the main thing was to break the appalling, abject conspiracy of silence of the early days, when the newspapers agreed to keep quiet or worse. That, I would have succeeded in unleashing the noise around this grave. A thunderous noise, which meant that even R.R.'s opponents had to pay tribute to him. Pantheon or not"...