CLEMENCEAU Georges (1841-1929). Autograph manuscript entitled "Suprême manoeuvre". 4 folio pages, erasures and corrections, a small press clipping, pasted by the author in the text. Beautiful political manuscript. "Mr. Charles Benoist, of the R.P. [Charles Benoist 1861 - 1936, deputy of the Seine from 1902 to 1919, took an active part in the debate on the separation of the Church and the State], launches a desperate appeal to the voters to invite them to unite their votes on the name of the moderate candidates who are in block with the men of Mr. Piou [Jacques Piou, 1838-1932, several times deputy between 1885 and 1919, defended for a long time the religious freedom]. The Republic is not threatened, he tells us. It is only the ideas that represent it that Mr. Piou's liberal action has undertaken to rid us of. That is nothing really, and since our supporters of the Pope are willing to allow us temporarily to keep the Republican label, on the sole condition that it only represents freedoms in the manner of the Syllabus, why should we persist in fighting people who agree to let us have the word, for a time, if we only give them the abandonment of reality.