Béatrix DUSSANE (1888-1969). 3 L.A.S., 1924-1935 and n.d., to Lucien Dubech; 9pages in-8, 2 headed Comédie Française. To the drama critic of L'Action Française. March 30, 1924. Thanks Dubech for his article, praise, analysis and even "severity" on Jean Sarment's play Je suis trop grand pour moi (first performed at the Comédie-Française on March 26, 1924): "What a joy it is for us to be able to control ourselves with minds of your value, and what strength you bring to this young Comédie-Française, which is never more than an aspect of something very old, very solid, etc. [...] Say over and over again that every time an author of Sarment's class brings us the equivalent of this play, we'll consider ourselves honored to perform it - and it's not the busts of Molière, Racine and Beaumarchais who will disapprove of us"... - She would like to chat with him and Croué of the Comédie-Française... - [September 1935], about Jean Sarment's Madame Quinze [created February 20, 1935], in which she played Marie Leczinska, and the revival (September 2) of Sardou's Madame Sans-Gêne, in which she played the title role. Like Dubech, she prefers Marie Leczinska, as she said to Sarment, who "alone, I think, could understand an actress who is playing a golden role and who does not find the same intimate joy in it as in a pearl-gray or pigeon-throat role. [...] I try to analyze this nuance of dissatisfaction that I can feel at the very moment of noisy and prolonged encores and that I wouldn't dare admit"; and she quotes Racine... "Besides, I'm less tired coming out of the four acts of Mme Sans Gêne than the two scenes of Madame Quinze. And yet I go in good faith"... We enclose 4 other L.A.S.: - to A. Mercereau (1911) for a tribute to Paul Fort; - 2 to director Émile Fabre, evoking the success of La Rabouilleuse; - to Robert Piallat for an audition. Plus a set of press clippings.