Manuscrit autographe signé de deux chroniques intitulées "Une fameuse gorgée de poison" et "ça !"

André Breton autograph manuscript signed "A.B.", of two chronicles entitled "Une fameuse gorgée de poison" and "ça !", written for issue no. 7 of May 1953 of the review Médium. One long page written in black ink in careful handwriting on a white sheet, some corrections and additions sometimes in blue ink. Included is a small slip in Breton's hand, concerning an article by René Alleau, containing a small printed text annotated by him in red and blue ballpoint pens and bearing an explanatory note at the top.
Two transverse folds of no significance.
This is the final version of these two texts; an intermediate version of these articles, more crossed out than ours, can be seen on the Breton Archives website.
"Une fameuse gorgée de poison" ["A famous gulp of poison"] is a critical text on two films: Le Rideau cramoisi by Alexandre Astruc, drawn from a story by Barbey d'Aurevilly, and La Canduela by Maurice Clavel, drawn from a novel by Stendhal: "As they stand, these two films constitute an unforgettable ensemble. Love is kindled there in the wind it loves, that of perdition."
"ça !" ["that!"], whose title we can clearly see was previously chosen by Breton ("Le gredin du jour" ["The scoundrel of the day"]), is a diatribe against "The frightful fool who bears, for so few days more, the name of Francis Jourdain" and who "recently allowed himself some sordid senile drivel which the press made much of. The old idiot had got it into the rotten parsnip that serves him as head and excretory organ to soil Huysmans, if you please!"