Maurice ESTÈVE (1904-2001). 5 L.A.S., Culan and Paris 1969-1971, to painter Philippe Taillardat; 2pages in-4 and 14p. in-8, stamped envelopes. Beautiful, friendly correspondence illustrated with a small drawing of the Eiffel Tower. - Nov. 24, 1969, amusing letter after sending a catalog that never arrived. "I will no longer dare to entrust to the postal service - in the direction of your address - the testimonies of my immortal masterpieces, ripe and tasty fruits of a singular genius, albeit a Berrichon and wearing under the cap of the Odéon the Bonne-Parole-Bidon as you revealed to me [...] Philippe, I really liked your paintings. It moves, it expands, it deepens. Bravo, courage and joy!"... - March 19: "We always work with difficulty, and we always fall short of our hopes... unless we are born under the sign of grace, genius, Royalty, and bear the glorious name of ... MATHIEU, Ornament and Figurehead of the Fifth Republic"... - Bourbon l'Archambault, April 12: "I'm 'en cure' in this resolutely figurative weather, it's snowing and freezing"... - Paris May 15, 1971 (the A de Paris in the shape of the Eiffel Tower). I'm not a "Master" either, in my beloved art, still less a "Master-to-think", being only a little tiny little mis-thinker... Which is quite quenu... as Queneau would say! [...] Thank you for the "Hâmours d'Estève", young plumitif! I savor the very "Villa Médicis" writing of André Theuriet, Académicien, and the illustrations by the great Fernand Fau add to the... delicate pleasure of reading (it's Léautaud's antidote)"...