Deux manuscrits autographes signés complets intitulés "Magie quotidienne" Première version avec nombreuses ratures et corrections suivi de la version définitive [avec] enveloppe présentant des notes autographes

Two complete, handwritten, signed manuscripts entitled “Magie quotidienne” First version with many crossing-outs and corrections, followed by the final version [with] envelope with handwritten notes Complete handwritten, signed working manuscript entitled “Magie quotidienne”, two pages written in fine handwriting in black ink on two leaves from the à l'étoile scellée gallery. Many crossing-outs and corrections.
Complete signed final manuscript of the same article, four pages written in blue ink on four leaves.
An envelope attached containing – in black ink – Breton's handwritten notes reused in his manuscript.

Important and long manuscripts of this article which will be published in the first issue of La Tour Saint-Jacques in November 1955.

“1955: with this text entitled “Magie quotidienne”, Breton gives a distant echo to the beautiful phrase the “wonderful daily” which closed the first chapter of Le Paysan de Paris, in 1926. But far from Aragon passed to Stalinism, it is to the young Jean-Louis Bédouin that a text is dedicated, which may appear as one of the sketches of Breton's great project that year, a book dedicated to L'Art magique. For the time being, it is to the fascinating game of correspondence, formerly understood under the Hegelian category of objective chance, that these pages are devoted, which will appear, accompanied by a long letter from “G.D.” (Georgina Dubreuil) in the first issue of La Tour Saint-Jacques, in November.” (Breton Archives)

This long manuscript, abundantly corrected and made up of six parts defined by dates – from 21 to 26 February 1955 –, takes the form of a diary recounting troubling coincidences encountered by the writer.