Jacques-Émile BLANCHE (1861-1942) painter. L.A.S., February 1, 1931, to André Berge; 2pages small in-4, envelope. Thanks him for his article [on his novel Aymeris], "of such scope and fine analysis, so understanding, that I am delighted". He explains at length about the epilogue and Georges Aymeris's suicide, which gives the book "all its social and epochal meaning. Georges has played with fire, he has played the revolutionary in revolt against bourgeois conventions [...] he kills himself, as if on a spoiled child's whim - whereas so many other times he hadn't had the courage to kill himself. [...] Basically, the whole narrative was designed to lead up to this actual gesture, by a would-be murderer"...