Madeleine RENAUD. 2 L.A.S. "Madeleine", [1937]-1940, to Jean-Louis Barrault; 2pages and a half in-8 and 2pages in-4, hotel letterheads. Beautiful love letters to her future husband. Berlin Samedi [1937] (she was shooting Jean Grémillon's L'Étrange Monsieur Victor, and had met Barrault the previous year). "Mon amour très aimé I've just hung up and my heart is capsizing; I have such a surge of tenderness towards you that I have to tell you, I have to write it to you! We adore each other, don't we? Let's savor this miracle! God be praised, you feel the price of it and you know how to protect and exalt this love, it's immense; as I do the same, it would be the devil if this unique happiness didn't last forever; I could never stay in cold with you for more than two hours, and you?" She saw Bernard Zimmer, who has a script for Kean that director Heyman would like to shoot with Barrault; but that he doesn't decide anything until he returns: "You know that your decisions taken too abruptly then get you into trouble. I dream of travels, boats, caravans, sea and mountains, all glued to you, Thumbelina hanging on your arm, on your neck"... Megève January 1, 1940. Barrault is mobilized, and she suffers the separation: "We were at the height of our love, at the most beautiful moment of our lives; we had reached the sublime, and every little moment of our daily lives was a miracle. That's all stopped, and here we are, waiting; what keeps me from complete despair is that I have faith in the power of your love. I believe that when we meet again and never leave each other, you'll have the same freshness, the same impetus, the same desire to love me, and as my heart follows your heart, we'll be saved! She talks about her son Jean-Pierre. She writes to Bourdet (administrator of the Comédie-Française), and to Charles Granval (her first husband). [They will marry on September 5].