Jean-Louis BARRAULT. Autograph manuscript signed "JLB", [Christian Bérard, late April 1949]; 2 pages in-4. Beautiful tribute to Christian Bérard. [The set designer had died suddenly at Théâtre Marigny on February 11, 1949, a few days before the premiere of Les Fourberies de Scapin, directed by Louis Jouvet, with Barrault as Scapin and sets and costumes by Christian Bérard]. "It's already been more than 2 months since Christian Bérard fell, dying, in the central aisle of the theater Marigny, in front of his freshly finished set"... Barrault recounts that a swarm of bees came to cling to Bérard's grave... "There were 2 men in Bérard. The one that Paris had developed and which Bérard was the first to enjoy; he was called 'Bébé'. And the deep, human, restless, conscientious, hard-working, punctual, flayed, genial Bérard: the one a few of us (especially Louis Jouvet) had the honor of knowing intimately. He was the great painter Bérard, the exceptional man"...