[SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER - 20th century FRENCH LITERATURE - 
CATHOLIC RIGHT - VICHYSTE]

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On cream paper

(to Louis Boulay)

Words of comfort following (visibly) the death of a child...

Robert VALLERY-RADOT
1885-1970
 

Robert Vallery-Radot


Robert Vallery-Radot (Robert Marie-René), born in Avallon on July 31, 1885, died on February 23, 1970
 in Bricquebec, was a French man of letters and journalist, and, at the end of his life, 
a Cistercian (Trappist) monk.


Biography
Great friend of Francois Mauriac and of Georges Bernanos before the First World War, he began writing poetry and was editor-in-chief of the Cahiers de l'Amité française. He is part of the art action group Les Loups, initiated by Anatole Belval-Delahaye. From 1914 to 1918, he was mobilized as section leader and received, 
in a military capacity, the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. 
In Mars 1919, he was named editor-in-chief of the weekly format
 of the Universe until August.

Throughout the Catholic Literary Renaissance, some of the participants attempted to establish a Catholic equivalent of the Nouvelle revue française that André Gide and his close friends founded in 1909: 
Robert Vallery-Radot and François Mauriac in the 1910s with "Les Cahiers", Jacques Maritain from 1925 with the collection "Le Roseau d'Or" and, finally, in the early 1930s "Vigile" with Mauriac again 
and Maritain associated with Charles Du Bos... 

Francid James and Paul Claudel are them, from the first steps of the
 “New French Review or NRF” invited to collaborate.


In 1910, he received the Archon-Desspérouses prize, in 1918 and 1925, the Juteau-Duvigneaux prize and in 1940, 
the Vitet Prize of the French Academy.

Tempted by fascism during the 1930s and hostile to Freemasonry (he was vice-president of the Anti-Masonic Union of France when it was founded in 1935), he joined the Vichy regime in 1940. 

He ensures the writing of an anti-Masonic sheet, entitled Masonic Documents (1941-1944) 
with Bernard Faÿ and Jean Marquès-Rivière. He receives the Francisque. 
After the Second World War, wanted, he took refuge in Spain.

Ordained priest in 1953, he ended his days at the Cistercian abbey of Bricquebec (Manche), 
where he becomes Father Irénée.

He is the first cousin of Professor Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot, 
of the French Academy and member of the Constitutional Council.

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1 sheet of paper, folded in the center forming 4pp.,
4 handwritten pages

(folded: about 18x14cm)

Paris, November 7
 
 
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[From Georges or Louis Boulay]


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Good general condition, various minor usual defects

 
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Beautiful rare document
 
 
 


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Great friend of Francois Mauriac and of Georges Bernanos before the First World War, he began writing poetry and was editor-in-chief of the Cahiers de l'Amité française. He is part of the art action group Les Loups, initiated by Anatole Belval-Delahaye. From 1914 to 1918, he was mobilized as section leader and received,  Throughout the Catholic Literary Renaissance, some of the participants attempted to establish a Catholic equivalent of the Nouvelle revue française that André Gide and his close friends founded in 1909:  Robert Vallery-Radot and François Mauriac in the 1910s with "Les Cahiers", Jacques Maritain from 1925 with the collection "Le Roseau d'Or" and, finally, in the early 1930s "Vigile" with Mauriac again  Tempted by fascism during the 1930s and hostile to Freemasonry (he was v