PAGNOL (Marcel). Autographed letter signed addressed to the historian Philippe Erlan

  

Autographed letter signed [addressed to the historian Philippe Erlanger]. 2 pages in-4 signed "Marcel", Saint-Tropez, July 22, 1966, traces of glue on the back of the second sheet.

The writer has just devoured his correspondent's biography of Louis XIV. You give life to the characters you present; you are a disenchanted Michelet... Now, I really like Monsieur: it is he who will welcome you in Paradise. There is also a character I adore, it is the Palatine. Is there a complete collection of her letters in French? I am convinced that Henriette was poisoned because she learned, in England, the secret of the Mask. She was, moreover, treated by Vallot, who, the previous year, had poisoned her mother, ten days after Dauger's incarceration! The chicory water was not poisoned. They put the poison in the glass... Marcel Pagnol, passionate about the story of the Iron Mask, has just published an essay on the mysterious prisoner that he identifies as the twin brother of Louis XIV (Le Masque fer, Editions de Provence, 1965).

LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS; PAGNOL (Marcel).