Julien GREEN (1900-1998). L.A.S. "Julien", December 16, 1969, to Jean Denoël; 1 page and a half in-8 to his address 52 bis, rue de Varenne, VIIe, envelope. He has read part of Volume II of Paul Claudel's Diary: "The enormities abound, but there are some admirable things [...] In him, silliness and genius go hand in hand. It's astonishing, for example, to read that Père Couturier was "an oddball mixed with a groper". Maritain gets no better treatment for having said things that everyone agrees on today. And many others. He makes me say stupid things about the Church of England, which I've always loved (and which is not, strictly speaking, Protestant). On the other hand, the passage on the "death of God" (about Sartre) is astonishingly deep and witty"...