"J'ai aimé ce que vous dites sur vos journées passées avec la nature, - avec Dame Nature, Femme nature."

Autograph letter signed by Jean Wahl addressed to Marc Barbezat, two pages written in blue ink on a sheet. Envelope included. Transverse fold inherent to the mailing.
Jean Wahl was Marc Barbezat's examiner for the philosophy examination at the baccalauréat; it was then that the two men became friends. In 1940, shortly after writing this letter, Barbezat would found the journal L'Arbalète to which the philosopher would contribute by entrusting his very first poems to his young protégé. This journal would later become a publishing house that would notably publish Jean Genet's first and scandalous texts.
Beautiful letter imbued with poetry: "J'ai aimé ce que vous dites sur vos journées passées avec la nature, - avec Dame Nature, Femme nature." ["I loved what you said about your days spent with nature, - with Lady Nature, Woman nature."] Wahl comments: "J'ai reçu un volume de vers de [René] Tavernier dont vous m'avez parlé, et qu'un de mes étudiants connaît. C'est difficile, mais non sans intérêt." ["I received a volume of verse by [René] Tavernier whom you told me about, and whom one of my students knows. It is difficult, but not without interest."]