Jean COCTEAU. L.A.S., Palais Royal October 6, 1960, to Marcel Pagnol; 2pages in-4. He thanks Pagnol for sending him his latest book [Le Temps des secrets], quoting a line from Torchonnet in L'Auberge de l'Ange gardien by the Comtesse de Ségur... "You're the only one to touch our souls like those lost beauties whose Consolata fille du soleil (and Knut Hamsun's Pan) - I told you the other day that I couldn't hear Marius's card game without huge tears coming to my eyes through my throat. I think I feel you better than anyone because of my childhood and my Lili, who was the gamekeeper's son". He then recounts a childhood memory of a rabbit he found dead.... He ends with an allusion to the controversy surrounding the election of the "Prince of Poets" after the death of Paul Fort: "in the hands of Breton and Soupault, this title became more of a coachman's insult. Fuck them"...