GIDE ANDRE: (1869-1951) French author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1947. A.L.S., Andre Gide, one page, 8vo, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, 6th April 1924, to Therive (?), in French. Gide writes, in full, ´Vous trouverez ci-joint le double d´une lettre [n'est plus présent] que j´envoie ce matin a Riviere, au sujet de la note qui vous concerne que je viens de lire dans la N. R. F. d´Avril´ (Translation: ´Enclosed is a copy of a letter [no longer present] I sent this morning to Riviere, concerning the note about you that I have just read in the April issue of the N. R. F´). A few very light, minimal creases, VG Gide served as the first director of the Nouvelle Revue Francaise (NRF), the French literary magazine which he co-founded with several other intellectuals.

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