CÉLINE (1894-1961), autograph letter initialled to Charles D - Lot 89

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CÉLINE (1894-1961), autograph letter initialled to Charles D - Lot 89
CÉLINE (1894-1961), autograph letter initialled to Charles DESHAYES [1948], sent from Denmark (one large sheet in-4 written in blue ink on both sides, with envelope addressed to "77 Rue Massena in Lyon"). "Dear friend, / Alas I do believe that A.B.'s letter has been "retained" by his colleague here Minister of I. Pub [...] to whom I communicated it... He found it so interesting etc. He found it so interesting etc. [...] the man is delicate and very honest... perhaps an oversight... we'll see [...] Well I'll leave AB alone. These situations are too delicate too spied on by the cops to be very engaging... The world is too mean for the world to change [...] /Be assured that the hatred and the associated profit of the Resistentialists [sic] have created one of those cements, next to which the Atlantic wall is only putty... the breach is not for tomorrow nor the melting! It will take events, alas disasters [...] for anything to change before two generations. Ah Candide is not one of my cousins! / Everything is going for the worst in the most failed world! but you are young and it is difficult for youth not to believe in another world on Earth... / These Canadians seem quite impertinent but I know a little about the milieu from which these leaves come. It is very suspicious to me [...] to commit you to them only with great reserve / Your aff / LD [Lucien Destouches]. "In 1948, Charles Deshayes, a young man from Lyon and an admirer of Céline, approached the Ligue des droits de l'Homme and his journalist friends, former collaborators, to organize press campaigns in favor of Céline. Deshayes served as a relay in France and as an informer to Céline on the state of the press towards him. The two men never met.
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