He wins the Prix Goncourt in 1915 for his novel. Written during his stay at the hospital in Tours for several months. He is received into the Académie Goncourt in 1938. A friend of Maurras and Léon Daudet, a supporter of the Action Française, he supports Marshal Pétain during the German Occupation and is considered one of the ideologists of the Vichy regime. Keywords: René Benjamin, autograph letter, 1927, French writer, journalist, Prix Goncourt, Gaspard, novel, essay, theater, French society, politics, irony, observation, literature, manuscript, signature, collection, autograph, historical, document.