"... tu connais assez les exigences de notre métier pour m'excuser et pour ne voir en cette absence rien qui démente l'amitié..."."

Autograph letter signed by René Clair addressed to Carlo Rim, 22 lines in blue ink.
He cannot honor an invitation and presents his apologies to his friend : "... je t'embrasse, je te donne l'accolade - mais hélas, de loin. Je pars demain matin en "extérieur" et il est probable que je dorme sur place. Je suis navré de ne pouvoir être près de toi demain soir mais tu connais assez les exigences de notre métier pour m'excuser et pour ne voir en cette absence rien qui démente l'amitié très ancienne et bien vive que je te porte. Affectueusement. René." ["... I embrace you, I give you an accolade - but alas, from afar. I leave tomorrow morning for location shooting and it is probable that I will sleep on site. I am sorry not to be able to be near you tomorrow evening but you know well enough the demands of our profession to excuse me and to see in this absence nothing that contradicts the very old and very much alive friendship that I bear you. Affectionately. René."]
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Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author notably of "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, a filmmaker: "Justin de Marseille", "L'armoire volante", "La maison Bonnadieu", and was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary.