Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). Autograph manuscript signed, J'entrouvre pour vous le Musée Fernand Léger... Biot-sur-Rêve, [1959]; 4pages in-4. Very fine text on Fernand Léger and his Museum in Biot (1959). After evoking the sun-roasted Côte d'Azur, overrun with "cheap tourists", Aragon arrives in Biot, which he left last year on a building site... "This year, at the hottest hour, I saw the miracle: the building sparkling, as if washed by the sun, in a bath of greenery, [...] proportioned to a landscape in width that it has appropriated, of which it has made its backdrop, but which has precisely the surprising proportions of the dreamed thing, larger than life". Like Barrès's, Biot's hill is "inspired, it has been reprioritized by that human thing we call the soul, [...] so that on arrival, the visitor, the spectator grasps at once and as a whole, the monument, the place, the peaceful song, the homage to the one whose home it is here forever, [....] this great palace of the spirit that will always blow, of a spirit that is not the plaything of death, but the triumph of life, and which offers itself to the sun, to the ardor of the seasons, to the great wind of History, as the sublime, almost unique testimony of our time"... Aragon visits the museum, whose hanging is not yet complete, at night, with Elsa Triolet, Georges Bauquier, Nadia Léger, Jean Cocteau... it's a fairy tale... "Our comrade Fernand Léger, who on his canvases nationalized the lands of Carabas, for those whose hands he studied, martyred by work, and who had like a gigantic sculpture imagined a Children's Garden, which is in pieces on the grass in Biot, at this hour, and which will be erected in October, in a corner of the park, next to the little house he had bought before he died, and which disappears in the trees". Attached is a L.A.S. to Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont (1p. in-4), giving indications for the photographs intended to illustrate the article.