André MALRAUX (1901-1976). L.A.S., Florence July 11 [1954], to a lady; 1 1/2 pages in-8 with vignette and letterhead of the Grd. Hôtel Minerva (qqs slight defects). About the Comédie-Française [of which Pierre Descaves is administrator], about which he has asked Jacques Jaujard, Director General of Arts and Letters at the Ministry of National Education. Before his departure for Florence - "this city where Suarès is, as you know, so present" - he saw Jaujard "alone. What he told me - cautiously - seemed to me to mean this: there are two clans at the Comédie-Française; he, Jaujard, is trying to tip the balance towards the good side. Not without difficulty. And yet, in these absurd divisions, those who propose doing nothing almost always prevail. But persistence also has its value. Jaujard has it"...