Lettre autographe adressée à Roger Nimier

Autograph letter signed by Jacques Perret, 33 lines in black ink, addressed to a colleague, probably Roger Nimier, apologizing for being unable to attend a meeting organized by the review Arts.
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For lack of time, Jacques Perret was unable to honor his promise to write a preface requested by his correspondent: "... if you are pressed for time and you have a replacement preface writer at hand, have no scruples of course as I will not be able to deliver proper work before my return..."
Jacques Perret then evokes his passion for rugby: "On Rancoule's repositioning (three-quarter wing of Stade Toulousain whom he later joined on the staff)... I therefore had the joy of outflanking the Cardinal's defense and going for the try. It remains for me to convert it by going to embrace my dear Raoul in that army of Princes from whom we still await wonders..."
Jacques Perret, royalist writer, fierce partisan of French Algeria and virulently anti-Gaullist, was stripped of his civil rights then in 1963, struck from the military medal roll despite protests from some of his fellow writers, suspects that his political positions do not favor honorary decorations: "I think we were made to sign a manifesto manifestly designed to torpedo my ribbon."