"Votre intervention pour faire est déterminante..."

Autograph letter signed by the dandy count, of a page and a half (13 lines), written in black ink to his friend the journalist from Le Gaulois Henry Lapauze so that he might use his decisive influence in the publication of a text: "Il doit s'imaginer que ce texte est subversif. Détrompez-le." ["He must imagine that this text is subversive. Disabuse him of this notion."] initially validated by Arthur Meyer but which Robert de Montesquiou wants to ensure through his friend will indeed be printed: "J'ai vu votre directeur qui accepte en principe. Cependant, comme votre intervention pour faire est déterminante, j'insiste auprès de vous." ["I have seen your director who accepts in principle. However, as your intervention to make it happen is decisive, I insist upon you."]
Henry Lapauze (1867-1925) was a journalist, art critic, then, in 1905, curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum and whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet, Henner, Falguière collections with, in the twilight of his life, a marked predilection for the Decorative Arts of which he was one of the ardent promoters.