Henri JEANSON (1900-1970). Autograph manuscript signed, [December 1958]; 8pages in-4 on blue paper (printer's marks, small tear at corner). On the occasion of the 700th issue of Arts (December 10, 1958), Jeanson pays tribute to the free, non-committal spirit of the magazine: Baudelaire, Nerval, Sainte-Beuve, Beaumarchais, Rivarol, Chénier, Vallès, Diderot, Veuillot would have found a place there, "for tolerance is the beginning of liberty"... He imagines the treatment of current events in two hundred years' time: Jean Bardot, Brigitte XXIII, Luis Mariano and Jean-François Revel, etc. He cites the "problem of youthfulness", "the problem of the young". He cites the "problem of youth" attacked or raised by Aymé, Anouilh, J.-R. Huguenin; astonishing papers and polemics by R. Huyghe, Parinaud, J. Laurent, Ionesco, Truffaut... Arts, it's here "that Jean-Louis Barrault shouts 'au secours on m'assassine', that René Clair denounces the demagogy of cinema, that Ionesco insults M. Lars Schmidt and M. Lars Schmidt. Lars Schmidt and Mr. Lars Schmidt retorts, that Philippe Soupault turns tables and resurrects Antonin Artaud [...] It's here that good people feel at home"...