
Autograph letter signed by François Mauriac, on the letterhead of the Grand Hôtel du Parc in Royat (Puy-de-Dôme), 14 lines in black ink, probably addressed to the historian Georges Goyau, a specialist in religious history.
François Mauriac looks forward to meeting his friend Goyau that evening and poetically conjures up Abbé Perreyve, a prominent figure of nineteenth-century liberal Catholicism: "j'ai rêvé cette nuit que l'abbé Perreyve jouait sous ma fenêtre de quinze instruments à la fois, comme un homme orchestre, ce n'était que le vent".