C. Mendes junior|Rio de Janeiro 1953|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
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First edition of this choice of letters established Jorge Lima among those addressed him Georges Bernanos, one of 500 numbered and signed by the Brazilian writer, one draw. Signed autograph of Jorge Lima Brazilian Robert Garric. Catholic reformist, he was the founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench" "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "