"Gilbert CESBRON (Paris 1913-1979), writer of Catholic inspiration. Signed manuscript of 2 1/2 sheets in-4, in black ink, in his very legible handwriting, on sheets of yellow notebook, typical, lined and marked, with erasures and additions. Cesbron deplores in this manuscript the importance given to cars, especially American ones, and the image they reflect to their owners. He begins thus: "It seems to me high time to say that American cars are becoming more and more ridiculous every year; and that a civilization in which the value of a person is measured by the space his car occupies in the parking lot is not only perishable but rotten. It is the Civilization of the Trunk. (...) it is a matter of appearing to be what you are not, thanks to the size of your car. A little guy, driving his Cadillac, quickly imagines that he is the imposing one... it exempts him from having to prove his worth." And ends with: ""these cars, each of which is larger than Louis Renault's workshop and cost more than Edouard Branly's laboratory..., come on! it is in the logic of this time that they extend a little more each year the empire of their rear trunk..."" Gilbert Cesbron."