"... si l'on trouve peu d'encouragements quand on veut dire aux Français la vérité sur l'Allemagne, je puis dire que j'ai dérogé, grâce à vous, à cette règle..."

Autograph letter signed by Xavier de Hauteclocque (23 lines in black ink from the camp of Auvours in Sarthe where he is a reserve officer) addressed to Léon Daudet thanking him for his laudatory article regarding his latest work: "... si l'on trouve peu d'encouragements quand on veut dire aux Français la vérité sur l'Allemagne, je puis dire que j'ai dérogé, grâce à vous, à cette règle..." ["...if one finds little encouragement when one wants to tell the French the truth about Germany, I can say that I have made an exception, thanks to you, to this rule..."]
Xavier de Hauteclocque is worried about the blindness of his fellow citizens although he warns them of the Hitlerian threat, only Action Française and its daily newspaper playing the salutary role of Geese of the Capitol far from: "...la critique 'officielle' et conformiste..." ["...the 'official' and conformist criticism..."]
Fold mark inherent to being placed in an envelope.
Decorated with the war cross in 1914-1918 (at 18 he had volunteered early on July 15th, 1915 to join the 3rd regiment of hussars at Saumur, his father and brother having fallen on the field of honor in 1914), first cousin of Marshal Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Xavier de Hauteclocque is a military man, journalist and writer who never ceased to vigorously denounce, through his writings and reports, the dangers of Adolf Hitler and his party taking power in Germany. In 1935 in Paris, he died poisoned by the Nazi regime that his works such as La Tragédie brune, À l'Ombre de la Croix Gammée or Nuit sur l'Allemagne disturbed.