Henry de MONTHERLANT. L.A.S., February 5, 1968, to Bernard Gavoty; 2pages in-8. After the premiere of La Ville dont le Prince est un enfant, at the Théâtre Michel, December 8, 1967. He thanks Gavoty for his article, and talks about the audience: "as a reader wrote to me, you have to count one spectator in a thousand, who has what it takes to understand and feel. So far, that's about twenty spectators. I can't complain. I was particularly struck by the fact that you didn't isolate the last scene of the play from the rest, to praise it, as is often done. A play is a play, not a scene; otherwise, it's a bad play. Curiously, those who say that the last scene is "sublime", but that "I'm not at ease when I get the children to talk", ignore the fact that just about everything the children say was noted down on the spot, from auditu, when I was 16, whereas the last scene was invented, and in all its phrases, from scratch"...