Lettre autographe signée adressée à Adriana Salem

Autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed to Adriana Salem. One page written in blue ink on a school notebook sheet.
Transverse folds inherent to mailing and small marginal losses due to removal of the sheet from the notebook.
Charming letter sent from Saint-Cirq-Lapopie: "Me voici à Saint Cirq La Popie (sic) depuis vendredi dernier et m'y voici seule. [...] L'été est revenu, et il s'est installé depuis mon départ. C'est un site extraordinaire, connaissez-vous ?" ["Here I am at Saint Cirq La Popie (sic) since last Friday and here I am alone. [...] Summer has returned, and it has settled in since my departure. It's an extraordinary site, do you know it?"] It was undoubtedly on the invitation of Thérèse Plantier, her friend who was also a writer, that Violette Leduc went to Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, André Breton's stronghold. "In the 1950s, the department of Lot was chosen as a testing ground by the Citizens of the World movement: a globalist movement advocating for a planet without borders, governed by world law. Cahors became the first city to sign a globalization charter, followed by 248 municipalities in the department, and declared itself 'Cahors mundi,' a world city. Several personalities - politicians, intellectuals, artists - joined this movement initiated by Garry Davis, a former pilot in the American army. Among them, André Breton (1896-1966), but also Max Ernst, Albert Camus and even Abbé Pierre. On June 24, 1950, André Breton participated in the inauguration of the Route sans frontière n°1 symbolically linking Cahors to Figeac. The route was then supposed to cross the world and reach Berlin, China, Japan and the United States. On the occasion of this inauguration, André Breton discovered the village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie." (Archives du Lot)
Adriana Salem was the daughter of Frederic Gentili di Giuseppe, representative of the Italian Minister of Finance in Paris and great collector of Italian Renaissance paintings.