Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. Autograph manuscript for D'un château l'autre, [1957]; 16pages in-4 (27 x 21 cm). Working manuscript, extensively crossed out and corrected, of an episode of the novel published in 1957. Written in blue ballpoint pen on the front of sheets of Navarre watermarked paper, the manuscript is extensively crossed out and corrected; paginated from 226 to 241, it corresponds roughly to pages 122 to 129 of the Bibl. de la Pléiade edition (Romans 1957-1961), but presents important variants and numerous unpublished passages. Céline laments his fate... "It's me who's been incarcerated, chained up, and not for a day; two banks!... the thieves have arranged for me to atone in Copenhagen for their own crime [...] As we see that Justice is made at certain moments in History, it puts the robbed in canvas and the thieves on the pavement"... He speaks of Gaston Gallimard: "Gaston who pimps me, sabotages me, dumbed down by profits, of me who works, dumbed down by efforts"... Céline then recounts Marshal Pétain's walk to Sigmaringen, watched over by Debeney... Admiral Corpechot, "a recognized lunatic, a total loony [...] Corpechot, promoted from editor to admiral... admiral... it was all up in the air"... Céline returns to Gaston Gallimard: "Gaston's work is cashiering... touching. [...] I ask you what else Gaston could possibly be doing? no more than his loucoum Paulhan to go and cut off my news?"... This is followed by an evocation of the barn in Sigmaringen where they lock up "motherless girls... women without husbands... pregnancies of at least 6 months!" They escaped to the troops, who groped them and fed them, singing "Lili Marlene"... 2 other autograph pages (in-4), with erasures and corrections, are enclosed. - P.332 [Pl. 83], she sets the scene for Émile and Le Vigan ("La Vigue") about the boat in Caron. - P. 716 [Pl. 170]: "De voir Laval et sa femme. They didn't care about the dead man anymore... it was Laval who was interested... they asked him questions - if it would be over soon if the Germans would win or lose..."