Robert BRASILLACH (1909–1945). Handwritten letter, Sens, November 23, 1943, to a friend; 2 pages, in-8. On the internal disputes within Je Suis Partout [from which Brasillach had just resigned]. “The ‘guerrilla warfare’ with J.S.P. [Je Suis Partout] is taking up a lot of my time.” There is a lawsuit against the newspaper filed by Georges Blond and Henri Poulain. “I am a witness for the latter; there are sessions as long as the Grands Jours d’Auvergne, with twists and turns, etc. It’s quite tedious and generally very sordid. The advantage is that during this time, one thinks less about terrorism, communism, and the Eastern Front.” He doesn’t think much of the Ministry of Education; his brother-in-law [Maurice Bardèche] “is a lecturer at the University of Lille and hasn’t yet managed to secure a tenured position in two years”; but he can try to do something for his correspondent’s friend, the doctor. As for a lecture at “Les Heures,” he doesn’t have a topic yet; and he is “deterred by the cold and by travel. I’ve just spent three days in Sens, which is two hours from Paris, and I’m appalled by the journey. But I’m going to shake things up a bit. Georges Blond is in the Lot, working on an adventure novel. –- I’m going to publish a selection of my literary articles from *L’Action française* one of these days – Since the “front of friendship” has narrowed, I hardly have any contact anymore with the Cousteau from Epinay [Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, who succeeded him at *Je Suis Partout*] and the Retenez-moi from Neuilly. - “I’m finally going to the movies! I’ve seen some great films”… In a postscript, he asks whether “from the former free zone, can we still legally correspond with countries with which we have not severed diplomatic relations: Spain, Argentina, Switzerland?”…
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Robert BRASILLACH (1909–1945). Handwritten letter, Sens, November 23, 1943, to a friend; 2 pages, in-8.
On the internal disputes within Je Suis Partout [from which Brasillach had just resigned].
“The ‘guerrilla warfare’ with J.S.P. [Je Suis Partout] is taking up a lot of my time.” There is a lawsuit against the newspaper filed by Georges Blond and Henri Poulain. “I am a witness for the latter; there are sessions as long as the Grands Jours d’Auvergne, with twists and turns, etc. It’s quite tedious and generally very sordid. The advantage is that during this time, one thinks less about terrorism, communism, and the Eastern Front.” He doesn’t think much of the Ministry of Education; his brother-in-law [Maurice Bardèche] “is a lecturer at the University of Lille and hasn’t yet managed to secure a tenured position in two years”; but he can try to do something for his correspondent’s friend, the doctor. As for a lecture at “Les Heures,” he doesn’t have a topic yet; and he is “deterred by the cold and by travel. I’ve just spent three days in Sens, which is two hours from Paris, and I’m appalled by the journey. But I’m going to shake things up a bit. Georges Blond is in the Lot, working on an adventure novel. –- I’m going to publish a selection of my literary articles from *L’Action française* one of these days – Since the “front of friendship” has narrowed, I hardly have any contact anymore with the Cousteau from Epinay [Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, who succeeded him at *Je Suis Partout*] and the Retenez-moi from Neuilly. - “I’m finally going to the movies! I’ve seen some great films”…
In a postscript, he asks whether “from the former free zone, can we still legally correspond with countries with which we have not severed diplomatic relations: Spain, Argentina, Switzerland?”…
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