MONTHERLANT HENRY DE: (1895-1972)

MONTHERLANT HENRY DE: (1895-1972) French Novelist. An interesting autograph manuscript by Montherlant, thirteen pages, 4to, full of annotations, amendments and erasures, containing thoughts, and nostalgic souvenirs of his time spent working at the Labrousse salle at the National Library. Montherlant refers to his motley lecturers and says `the sting of intelligence´, further mentioning the guard finding him smoking where it was forbidden `he was gas fired on eighty per cent of his body´, further again mentioning Bergson, Halévy and Bourges. The manuscript is written to the verso of letters he received from correspondents, including several French writers. G £150-200