Jean ANOUILH. L.A.S., [1955], to Pierre Brasseur; 2 pages in-4. After the premiere of Ornifle ou le courant d'air, in which Brasseur played the title role. "My (and when I say my...) dear (and when I say dear...) Brasseur. I wanted to come to the theater to tell you, since you asked me to see you, that I'm only angry at you for your thoughtless chatter to journalists and the radio, and for telling everyone that I made you do stupid things, which isn't true. There's also a more personal slur that none of the witnesses want to repeat to me because it must be so nasty - and to tell you that I was unable to hold a grudge against anyone for ever, especially you who gave me some of the best rehearsals of my life, and a performance two days before that was enough for me for the whole of Ornifle's career. But the theater's closed, and I realize that I don't feel like going to your place or having you come to mine. I still have, among other things, the weakness of a little boy; wounds shrivel me up and it takes me a very long time to un-shrivel... But we'll surely meet again, statesmen, forgetting these childish things, when we need each other"...