Xavier de HAUTECLOCQUE

Autograph letter signed by Xavier de Hauteclocque (39 lines in black ink on Continental Hotel Berlin letterhead) written from Berlin and addressed to Léon Daudet thanking him for: "... l'éloge que vous avez eu la bonté de consacrer encore à mon bouquin sur l'hitlérisme..." ["the praise you were kind enough to devote once again to my book on Hitlerism"] which he had published in the monarchist and Germanophobic daily Action Française.
Although having sounded the alarm concerning the grave dangers posed to Europe by the Nazi party's rise to power, Xavier de Hauteclocque despairs of being heard even by supposedly nationalist or patriotic circles: "... héla

Autograph letter signed by Xavier de Hauteclocque (23 lines in black ink from the camp of Auvours in Sarthe where he is a reserve officer) addressed to Léon Daudet thanking him for his laudatory article regarding his latest work: "... si l'on trouve peu d'encouragements quand on veut dire aux Français la vérité sur l'Allemagne, je puis dire que j'ai dérogé, grâce à vous, à cette règle..." ["...if one finds little encouragement when one wants to tell the French the truth about Germany, I can say that I have made an exception, thanks to you, to this rule..."]
Xavier de Hauteclocque is worried about the blindness of his fellow citizens although he warns them of the Hitleri