Henry de MONTHERLANT (1895-1972). L.A. (draft), February 28, 1959, to Hugues Fouras, at Figaro Littéraire; 1 page and a quarter in-4 (on the back of a typewritten poem by Martine Cadieu). On the Académie Française, clarification in reaction to an article by François Mauriac: "I never said I didn't want to make the rounds, and even I don't agree with candidates who dispense with them. I said over and over again that I would never stand for election to the Académie, but that if the Academicians wanted to elect me without my having stood, I would accept the election. He goes on to copy his letter of December 20, 1954 to Henry Bordeaux, then dean of election, and adds: "In a word, I did not say that I refused to be a member of the Académie. I only said that I would never run for it"...