Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Lot n° 46

Autograph manuscript, L'Agonie du Régime, [1925] ; 99 pages in-fol. Published in 1925 by the Nouvelle Librairie Nationale, this politically polemical book will bear the subtitle: Panorama des hommes, des clans et des crimes, 1919-1923. Daudet wanted to bear witness to "what happened in the aftermath of the war". The manuscript contains erasures and corrections, as well as inserted press clippings. It is complete with the Preamble and the chapters: I L'arrivée aux affaires du clan Millerand (1920) ; II Briand, ou le retour du vomissement (1921) ; III Les préfets, la police et le meurtre d'Antonin Dubost ; IV Comment Briand fut rappelé de Cannes ; V La première année du cabinet Poincaré (1922) ; VI The second year of the Poincaré cabinet (1923), the Ruhr and two police crimes; VII How Poincaré and Lasteyrie zigouillé the national bloc; VIII The tipping point of May 11, 1924 and the numbering of grains of sand.