BONAPARTE Marie, princesse de Grèce (1882-1962).

File consisting of: an autograph manuscript signed and 13 autograph letters signed, addressed to Philippe Kah. Correspondence written in Saint-Cloud, Vienna, Paris, Villa Roth (Austria) and (s.l.), between 1927 and 1930. About 46 pp. in-8 and in-4. Full transcript attached. Very interesting file on the Lefebvre affair, "such an interesting case from the psychoanalytical point of view". In August 1925, Marie Lefebvre kills in cold blood, with premeditation, her pregnant daughter-in-law, under the eyes of her son. In August 1927, Marie Bonaparte decided to document this event and contacted Mrs. Lefebvre's lawyers "(...) Being interested in Freudian questions, having spent several months studying in Vienna with Professor Freud and being a member of the Society of Psychoanalysis that several medical analysts had just founded in Paris, I planned, for the first issue of the "Revue de Psychanalyse" that we had just created, an article on the case (...) of Mrs. Lefebvre (...). In 1930, it is Maître Kah who calls Marie Bonaparte for the preface of his work "Aux Enfers du crime" (the manuscript of this file), in which he treats in particular this case. The princess will make the apology of the psychoanalysis as a tool of understanding of the criminal behaviors. Enclosed: a typed letter signed "Léo Poldès" to Marie Bonaparte, with 3 autographed lines. He asks her to preside over a debate on "To the Underworld of Crime"; a press clipping relating to the Wedding of Princess Eugenie of Greece; a handwritten address of Philippe Kah and that of Marie Bonaparte... Document presented during the exhibition Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) princess Georges of Greece and Denmark, in the museum of Avelines in Saint-Cloud.