Grandcamp-les-Bains [Grandcamp-Maisy] s. d. [ca 1914-1920]|13.50 x 21 cm|une page sur un feuillet remplié
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Autograph letter signed addressed to a correspondent whom we have not been able to identify. Written from the Grand Hôtel de Grandcamp-les-Bains (Calvados) in blue ink on a folded sheet of white paper. A transverse fold inherent to the posting of the letter and four small perforations affecting the text but not impeding its reading. The mention of Grandcamp-les-Bains - where Aragon seems to have been only once during the summer of his seventeenth year - and the signature - of an early form - lead us to think that the letter could have been written in the summer of 1914. Philippe Forest, in his biography of Aragon, confirms that it was indeed at Grandcamp-les-Bains, where his family had rented fifty rooms in a large seaside hotel to accommodate family and friends, that the future poet learned the news of mobilization. The handwriting, less rounded than on manuscripts prior to the 1920s, however seems to us later and we are therefore not in a position to confirm the date of 1914.