Lettre autographe signée (adressée à Daniel Giraud) "On ne fait pas d'articles sur Pythagore, sur Jésus, sur Gandhi ou sur Céline..."

Signed autograph letter of Henri Mahé, painter, director and friend of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a page and a half, (to Daniel Giraud he nicknamed the Homodivorous Autodestructor), 28 lines in black felt, dated 15 February 1970 and written from his home in Paris rue Greuze in the sixteenth arrondissement.

Traces of central folds inherent to a letter slipped into an envelope.

In this letter, all imprint of Celinian verve but also modesty and independence, Henri Mahé refuses to write an article because: "We do not make articles on Pythagoras, on Jesus, on Gandhi or Celine ... " mocking his style :" You see it's bad, you're overestimating me! " then arguing with his harrowing anarchism : "I am only a lone wolf, bristling with birth, stung by the race, always fleeing as pitiful journals and chapels ..." and finally extolling his unpopularity : "I still missed some enemies! .. would say Céline ... " while being careful not to be " Neither embittered nor misanthrope and I am even delighted that the Homodriving Autodestructor (Daniel Giraud) is exalted into projects. "