" vous ayant lu... votre attitude m'est allée au coeur..."

Autograph letter dated and signed by André Malraux (14 lines in blue ballpoint pen from his Boulogne home on avenue Victor Hugo) confirming a scheduled appointment.
He thanks him for his ever-benevolent friendship: "J'ai trouvé la Parisienne à mon retour. Je vous écris, vous ayant lu, ce que je vous ai dit avant de vous avoir lu : votre attitude m'est allée au coeur..." ["I found la Parisienne upon my return. I am writing to you, having read you, what I told you before having read you: your attitude touched my heart..."]
Fold mark from mailing, envelope included.
Resistance fighter participating in Combat, André Parinaud is a journalist, columnist, art critic and writer. From 1959 to 1967, he held the position of editor-in-chief of the important weekly Arts bringing together the elite of French creation in all artistic fields: literature, painting, theater, cinema... He would then conduct more than 1000 radio interviews with the greatest writers and artists including Salvador Dali, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Colette, Paul Léautaud, André Breton, Georges Simenon and André Malraux... While continuing to work at O.R.T.F. and radio, he founded several festivals or artistic events such as Le Festival international du film d'art, l'Académie nationale des arts de la rue.