" Et puis aussi gratitudes pour tout le soin qu'elle a pris de Mme Gen Paul !... Laquelle ne donne aucune nouvelle... Quelle vacherie encore ?... Comme c'est amusant !"

Autograph letter signed with the initials of Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer Master Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number "568" in Céline's hand in red pencil at the top left.
Transversal folds inherent to mailing.
This letter was very partially transcribed in Année Céline 2005.
Early November 1950, Gaby Paul had come to visit Céline and Lucette at Klarskovgaard: "Oh, mille mercis à Mme Christensen pour son aimable repas, qui réchauffé, fit nos délices ! Et puis aussi gratitudes pour tout le soin qu'elle a pris de Mme Gen Paul !... Laquelle ne donne aucune nouvelle... Quelle vacherie encore ?... Comme c'est amusant ! Je crois qu'elle avait des projets "journalistiques" mais que mon attitude l'a désenchantée. "["Oh, a thousand thanks to Madame Christensen for her kind meal, which reheated, was our delight! And also gratitude for all the care she took of Mme Gen Paul!... Who gives no news... What nastiness again?... How amusing! I believe she had 'journalistic' projects but my attitude disenchanted her."]
Céline also mentions the Swedish writer Ernst Bendz, one of the few to defend Céline alongside Paraz: "Une lettre amusante de Bendz ! Bendz appartient vraiment à l'aristocratie des esprits ! La preuve ! La façon qu'il "m'estime"!!!"["An amusing letter from Bendz! Bendz truly belongs to the aristocracy of minds! The proof! The way he 'esteems me'!!!"]
In 1947, Céline, pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement, was confined in Denmark. It was in May 1948, accompanied by Lucette and Bébert, that he arrived at his lawyer Master Thorvald Mikkelsen's home at Klarskovgaard. The latter owned a large property by the Baltic Sea and invited the exile to stay there. On February 21, 1950, as part of the épuration, the writer was definitively sentenced in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year of imprisonment (which he had already served in Denmark). The Swedish Consul General in Paris, Raoul Nordling, intervened on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen, Danish Foreign Minister, and managed to delay his extradition. On April 20, 1951, Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, his lawyer since 1948, obtained Céline's amnesty under the title of "severely disabled veteran of the Great War" by presenting his file under the name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches without any magistrate making the connection. Céline would leave Denmark the following summer, after three years spent at his lawyer's home.