YOURCENAR, Marguerite (1903-1987). Set of... - Lot 223 - Gros & Delettrez

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YOURCENAR, Marguerite (1903-1987). Set of... - Lot 223 - Gros & Delettrez
YOURCENAR, Marguerite (1903-1987). Set of 2 documents: -L.D.S. from Claude Charion addressed to Yourcenar (Vic-Fezensac, November 20, 1980. 2 pp. in-4), with in the margin the autograph comments of the academician, signed " Marguerite " (1 p. in-4). Yourcenar, the Ranucci affair & the abolition of the death penalty. Fascinating letter on the Ranucci Affair. Sentenced to death and guillotined in 1976 after Giscard d'Estaing refused him a presidential pardon. Ranucci was undoubtedly the victim of a judicial error. Marguerite Yourcenar comes back on this injustice in her interviews published by Gallimard in 1980 under the title Les Yeux ouverts. It was on this occasion that she received this letter: CC: "[...] It is President Giscard d'Estaing who, with regal cynicism, has used Ranucci's head as... he seeks to use Yourcenar. I am aware that he has been maneuvering for years so that the first woman to be admitted to the French Academy of Sciences would be admitted before the end of his seven-year term. Electoralism obliges! [...]. How could Yourcenar be fooled by Giscard's electoral feminism? [...] The Ranucci affair is a fact of society. A society that scorns the strictest rights of the human being with all the more cynicism and ferocity the poorer he is [...] Giscard is the heir of a family that got rich through the Bank of Indochina, which represents a good number of burned villages, sacked, crimes, rapes and spoliations of all kinds [...]". of all kinds [...]". Yourcenar: "I was all the more sensitive to this letter because J. and I were looking yesterday with disgust at the guillotine of Arras transferred to Bruges [...]. Gallimard brought me here about fifty letters from madmen sent to his offices. I have kept only this one, which is not from a madman [...]". - L.D.S. Small Pleasure, Northeast Harbor, Maine, U.S.A., n.d. 1 p. in-8, a piece of blue cloth secured with sticky paper. Small water stain on the signature. Marguerite Yourcenar addresses to the manager of the Salam Hotel in Taroudant: "I still remember with great pleasure the ten-day stay I made in your hotel in March 1981, with my American friend Mr. Jerry Wilson who had already been there several times". The novelist wishes to find a fabric bought in the souk and sends a sample. She evokes her trip to Morocco and the last companion of her life who died of AIDS in 1986.
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