Marguerite YOURCENAR (1903-1987). L.A.S., June 1, 1987, [to her friend and counsel Maître Marc Brossollet]; 2pages in-8. Amusing letter about the exaggerations of journalists. After an article about her in Jours de France. "I see that my year-round "apartment" at the Ritz has impressed you as it has me. And don't even get me started on my Rolls or Mercedes-Benz (I can't remember which) or my private plane. This lady-journalist whom I've never seen and whose name I don't even know lends me everything she'd like to have. As for the description of my environment, that's where she can indulge in safe fantasies, because I can't see myself using the right of reply to assure her that all my friends "are ugly, lame and virtuous...". I'm so often confronted with this kind of madness that I almost get into the habit of it." And she humorously recounts a session in London with an "intervioueuse"... "Unfortunately, the naiveté of the public is such that we believe these people"... Attached is a L.A.S. from Jacques Maritain to the same author, Kolbsheim October 10, 1971 (1p. in-8).