Important lot of L.A.S. from Maurice BARRÈS -... Lot 35

Important lot of L.A.S. from Maurice BARRÈS - L.a.s., 3 pp. in-8°, sd. to a friend in Nancy on rooting: "the return to the native land, the repatriation of the Uprooted constitutes in many strange illnesses the most powerful medication. [...] You will feel the full force of this truth, apart from the fact that thus formulated it is already sufficient for us, it is permissible to draw from it the supposition that the strange illness susceptible to this cure by return proves that man is closely linked to his native land, is worth more and better on his soil...". - L.a.s., 1 pp. in-8°. Headed to the British Hotel in Athens, May 23, 1900. Letter addressed to Jules Caplain-Cortambert, founder, with Henri Vaugeois and Maurice Pujo, of the Revue d'Action française (no. 1, June 20, 1899). Under the direction of Charles Maurras in 1908, it would become l'Action française. "It's in Athens that I have your circular and your state of affairs. I'd like to help you, and when I get back we'll talk about it. Best regards to Vaugeois and friends." - L.a.s., 3 pp. in-8° folded in two. Letterhead of the Chambre des Députés. Letter of thanks to a colleague in which he quotes Renan and his famous formula to Déroulède: "Young man, France is dying, do not disturb its agony." - L.s., 1 pp. in-8°, June 17, 1915. Addressed to an acquaintance of the philologist and Hellenist Alfred Croiset (not Croizet as Barrès spells him), president of the Œuvre de l'orphelinat des armées from 1904 to 1918, this letter follows an article by Barrès in L'Echo de Paris of June 10, 1915, in which the writer attacks Jeanne Weill, better known as Dick May (founder of the Orphelinat des Armées), whom Barrès accused of wanting to get his hands on the orphans of Catholic families in the name of a despised secular Republic. Dick May was the victim of an anti-Semitic and misogynistic press campaign. - 2 l.a.s. to Catholic historian and writer Georges Goyau and 1 L.A.S. to Madame Lucie Faure-Goyau, his wife, daughter of the late Félix Faure, dated April 28, 1905. Set of 8 pp. in-8°. Letterhead of the French Chamber of Deputies. Interesting correspondence, Barrès thanks Monsieur Goyau for his "religious Germany". To Madame Goyau he writes: "[...] I saw clearly that to diminish Catholicism in France was to diminish France's influence on the Rhine...". We enclose 3 a.s. cards from Madame Paule M. Barrès (including one showing the Moselle valley at Charmes, Barrès's birthplace). - L.a.s. "to his dear Master". S.l.n.d. 3 pp. in-8° on mourning paper. Beautiful letter. "It is a great joy to have found the truth by one's own isolated effort, and to verify that it is indeed the truth, since it appears so to the best of men. We have every right, don't we, to rank this exquisite Ménard in the first rank of these." Louis Ménard (1822-1901) was a writer, scholar and painter. - L.a.s to Gaston Calmette, director of Le Figaro. 1 pp. in-8°. Letterhead with his initials engraved. S.l., January 22, 1900. Barrès protests against a recent report that is hostile to him and completely inaccurate. It refers to a meeting where the room imposed silence on the nationalists who wanted to interrupt him, while a good third applauded his statements: "I'm not asking you for rectifications, of course, but you must admit that it's a bit hard when I'm the one on whom all the effort and the enemy benches are focused, to be rather badly treated at your place." - L.a.s. to Fernand Xau, founder of the "Journal". 1 pp. 1/2, in-8°, sd. Paris. Laminated letter on heavy paper, with another laminated letter on verso, whose sender is not identified. Barrès is trying to place a thousand-line short story in the "Journal", "which is good, without being of great effect on the general public...". "The Journal is for me too charming a house for me not to choose it every time it is opened". - L.a.s. (to Tancrède de Visan). 3/4 pp. in-4°. Heading "République française. Chambre des députés". March 12, 1922, Paris. Letter of thanks for an article in "Salut Public" by Tancrède de Visan, for which Barrès requested two or three issues. "Yes, it's a fine program I have to carry out, the one you'd like to believe I've accomplished: the intelligence of a Westerner and lyrical aspirations knotting together, under the great vault of the cathedral. The volume I'm currently writing on the Orient is exactly that. Barrès had made a trip to the Orient in 1914, from which he drew the two volumes of "Une enquête au pays du Levant", published in 1923. Some of his memories are also found in "Un jardin d'Oronte" (1922). The "Salut Public" article is enclosed. - L.a.s., 1 pp. in-8°. Letterhead of the French Chamber of Deputies, dated April 19 (1919?). Letter of apology