CELINE LOUIS-FERDINAND (1894-1961)

Autograph letter signed addressed to Paul MARTEAU. Korsör (Denmark), January 25, 1948. 6 pages in-4 in blue ink on paper, envelope kept. Very friendly and warm letter, confirming the intimate links between Céline and Paul Marteau : " Your letter arrives to us like the little Christmas all announcing new times ! A thousand friendships and wishes and gratitude! He reacts to an umpteenth file from the examining magistrate: "Oh the document - it must be another joke - the 1000th! A forgery! Or nothing at all! I'm used to it, but the bitch of it is that the impetus is given ... even on an empty file the impetus is everything! There are comparisons to be made between the rage that pursues me and the infinite indulgence of the public prosecutor's office towards so many illustrious collaborators (see the Dictionnaire des Girouettes) " [published in 1948, was preceded by " L'oubli en politique "] " unless one is blind and deaf, it is difficult to digest ! Oh condemned I will complain! I will not bleat! I am always heard by at least 500,000 readers - In the 'gala' [of the Cows, a journal kept by Albert Paraz since 1947 and published in 1948, made up of a large cross correspondence Céline-Paraz], I spade the platonic friendships in order not to seem protected by anyone. Absolutely alone. The jackals are already sniffing around and how! Céline asks Marteau to influence André Marie, the Minister of Justice. "But I wish they would stop persecuting me as they do. By sadism, for pleasure - Let them do to me all the indignities that they want! I am the worthy one! But not in jail, not even in absentia".