"Quand vous verrez Blondin, dites lui que ma pensée le suit dans sa gloire et qu'il veuille réserver un 1/2 setier de son pactole à boire..."

Autograph letter signed by Jacques Perret, 22 lines in black ink, addressed to a colleague, probably Roger Nimier.
Fold mark inherent to postal dispatch.
Jacques Perret awaits a letter from Roger Nimier that is running late: "Your note arrived late, given that I no longer live on rue de la clé but at 5 rue de l'Ancienne Comédie. Gordon Pym has not yet arrived, but that doesn't surprise me coming from him." and inquires about his correspondent's health: "... I learned that you had heart troubles; before long I will go see if everything has returned to order."
He enthuses about the success his friend Antoine Blondin is enjoying: "When you see Blondin, tell him that my thoughts follow him in his glory and that he should reserve half a setier of his treasure to drink, when the day comes... Also tell him that my boy who is operating in Kabylia would be quite pleased with a word or an apostilled sign."
Jacques Perret, a royalist writer, fierce partisan of French Algeria and virulently anti-Gaullist, was stripped of his civil rights and 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 find that we were made to sign a manifesto manifestly designed to torpedo my ribbon."