917 - MONTHERLANT, Henry de (1896–1972). Collection of 7 documents: 5 letters from the author and 2 letters to the author, addressed to Marcel Thiébaut. 7 pp., in-4 and in-8. 1935–1958. One envelope preserved. One letter torn in two.

MONTHERLANT, Henry de (1896–1972). Collection of 7 documents: 5 letters from the author and 2 letters to the author, addressed to Marcel Thiébaut. 7 pp., in-4 and in-8. 1935–1958. One envelope preserved. One letter torn in two. -June 8, 1935: “I’ve said everything I had to say about sports—and, in fact, more than I should have, having, I confess, even dug into the bottom of my drawer on this subject [...].” -December 16, 1939, submitting a text for the journal: “If you don’t let yourself be put off at first by the fact that it is a ‘radio montage.’ For this is a text I care enough about to have agreed to its publication in a small deluxe edition, following its appearance in various magazines here and there. The entire second part (beginning with the dialogue between the priest and the child) is completely unpublished. In the first part, a few sentences were borrowed from *La Relève du Matin*, but not much [...].” -January 13, 1955, regarding *Port-Royal*: “You were right to say that I never write plays based on ideas; rather, they are attitudes that I embody in human characters: in this case, moral decay. It is always people who interest me, and it is rare for them to embody a single idea. Rather, they are all more or less vague and contradictory, like the Archbishop of Paris. To tell the truth, I don’t think *Port-Royal* is my ‘masterpiece’ [...] History has contributed too much to it and helped me too much. There is no comparison between a play like that and one that springs entirely from within oneself. The future will be mistaken if it does not judge that my “masterpiece” is *The City Whose Prince Is a Child* [...].”