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242 - MERMOZ, Jean
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MERMOZ, Jean Autograph letter signed “Jean,” Marseille, March 14 [1932], to his “Dearest Mom”; 1½ pages, in-4. He expresses concern about his mother’s legal troubles and reassures her: “All of this is just a ridiculous charade with no real significance in life; human justice is a huge joke that must be taken as such […] I know how much you’re suffering, and when one is innocent, I know how repulsive it is to be forced to clear one’s name. But just think that this is merely an incident caused by people’s baseness and malice, and that it cannot affect you. […] As for me, I believe in an immanent justice […] I still love you with the same deep affection, and I suffer much more often than you realize from what you yourself are going through. It’s just that I don’t show it, and even if I hide it behind a somewhat brusque exterior or a veneer of cold philosophy, I suffer no less because of it”… Source: - Jean Mermoz (1901–1936); - Gabrielle Gillet-Mermoz (1880–1955); - Then passed down through the family
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