André GIDE (1869-1951). L.A.S., La Roque-Baignard [summer 1899], to Édouard Ducoté, director of the magazine L'Ermitage; 8 pages in-8. On his play Le Roi Candaule. He complains of the "terrible hills" he had to climb on his bicycle to get home. He evokes a Signoret play and comes to his Candaule: "I beg you not to send it to the review, I'd look at it again and send you something else; tell you well that no eye, for what I do, can be more than mine severe"; he believes criticism more readily than praise... "Yet when I think about it, I don't think I've drawn Candaule badly; perhaps the indecision at the beginning comes from the fact that nothing has happened yet; consider that this is very rare in the theater, and that the action, before the curtain rises, is usually already prepared. [...] I'd like you to reread it once [...] and if, after rereading it, your impression is still dull, I beg you not to be afraid to tell me so"...