VALÉRY Paul (1871-1945) [AF 1925, 38e f]. - Lot 229

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VALÉRY Paul (1871-1945) [AF 1925, 38e f]. - Lot 229
VALÉRY Paul (1871-1945) [AF 1925, 38e f]. L.A.S. "Paul Valéry", December 24, 1925, [to Monseigneur Honoré HALLE, auxiliary bishop of Montpellier]; 2 oblong pages in 12. After his election to the Académie Française [November 19, 1925]. "Since my election my life is that of one of those wooden horses that turn in the fairs. The events, the beings, the letters, the new duties and the old ones - it is a Babel that my head"... He remembers the "episcopal visit" that he had received one evening when he was ill. "I am happy for Mom that she had the joy of seeing me at the Academy. This joy of her great age is for me the essential contentment that this election gave me ". Attached is a L.A.S., a minute of this same letter (2 p. in-8 on the letterhead of the Society of Nations) with interesting variants: "As for me, I confess to you, My Lord, that I do not yet feel like an academician, nor an academic. And I sometimes think that people have gone crazy and take me for "immortal"! L'Académie française au fil des lettres, pp. 274-277.
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