YOURCENAR, Marguerite (1903-1987). Set of 2 documents: - Lot 122

YOURCENAR, Marguerite (1903-1987). Set of 2 documents: -L.D.S. from Claude Charion to Yourcenar (Vic-Fezensac, November 20, 1980. 2 pp. in-4), with the academician's autograph comments in the margin, 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 miscarriage of justice. Marguerite Yourcenar revisits 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. Indeed, I'm well aware that he has been maneuvering for years to ensure that the first woman to be admitted to the French Academy of Sciences would do so 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 human rights with all the more cynicism and ferocity the poorer the human being [ ] Giscard is heir to a family that became rich through the Banque d'Indochine, which represents a good number of villages burnt, sacked, crimes, rapes and plunder of all kinds [ ]". of all kinds [ ]". Yourcenar: "I was all the more sensitive to this letter as J; and I were looking yesterday with disgust at the Arras guillotine transferred to Bruges [ ]. Gallimard brought me here about fifty letters from madmen sent to his offices. I only kept this one, which is not from a madman [ ]". - L.D.S. Petite plaisance, Northeast Harbor, Maine, U.S.A., n.d. 1 p. in-8, a piece of blue cloth fastened with sticky paper. Small water stain on signature. Marguerite Yourcenar writes to the manager of the Hotel Salam in Taroudant: "I still remember with great pleasure the ten-day stay I had in your hotel in March 1981, with my American friend Mr. Jerry Wilson, who had already been there several times". The novelist wants to find a fabric she bought in the souk and sends a sample. She recalls her trip to Morocco and the last companion of her life, who died of AIDS in 1986.