LITERATURE - BARRES Maurice (1862 - 1923) - Autograph... Lot n° 529

Refined individualist who revealed himself in Le Culte du Moi. Boulangiste deputy for Nancy (1888-1891), he was nevertheless an intellectual guide for the nationalist movement. His work reveals a contradiction between, on the one hand, a passionate spirit and, on the other, a need for order and discipline on which he would cast a lucid and disenchanted eye. Autograph letter signed on 27.03.1917: "...naturellement le mieux serait de me prévenir, mais je suis quasi toujours là".; Autograph letter signed: "... ne jamais craindre d'accentuer; on ne met jamais trop de caractère en ......craindre le bavardage. Cerner les forts sur le sujet".