Pierre LOUŸS. 8 L.A.S. or L.A. (some minutes unfinished), [ca. 1907-1921], to his cousin Jacques Chardon, lieutenant de vaisseau, and his wife Jeanne; 24 pages in-8 or in-12, 2 envelopes. Tamaris [1907]. Strong criticism of the Pope's authority and legitimacy; suggests founding, by bringing together "modernists", founders of Sillon, and other opponents, i.e. "1800,000 Catholics", "a church that would save Catholicity lost by an incapable Pope"... - Tamaris September 14, 1910, on the condemnation of Sillon, censorship by the Holy See, religion and the republican regime... Monday evening, on his relations with theater directors, which are not very good "For the Opéra, it's different. I've always had good relations with Messager"... - He caught bronchitis at the fête de Neuilly, and thanks Jacques, "an invaluable and complaisant translator", for translating an article "intelligent and rather less preening than I had feared it would be"... - On the health of his 80-year-old aunt. - Short bill: "Save your prayers for your own salvation, my dear Jacques. Neither Georges nor I need your intercession". March 2, 1916. Fondly recalled Paul Chardon (who died of wounds in October 1915) with Deputy Leboucq, author of articles on the Balkans under the pseudonym Claude Montaigne, who had campaigned for Georges Louis "at a time when his embassy was being attacked by Poincaré"... - November 2, 1921, about an anthology of writers killed in action, which will include Paul Chardon.