CHAR (René) - Lot 65

CHAR (René) Born in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. 1907-1988. Resistance poet. L.A.S. "René Char" to Jacques Lafaye. [L'Isle-sur-Sorgue], August 24, 1967. 2 pp. in-8 oblong, on "Les Busclats" stationery. Stamped envelope enclosed. Charming letter to his ethnologist friend Jacques Lafaye: ...So, this summer, you won't be going as far as the Fontaine de Vaucluse? Too bad for me, its close neighbor, too good for you, as "the surgeons" and other crocheters are carrying out soundings and dives there, on government orders! Its surroundings are nothing but winches, ropes, equipment and costumed divers... He thanks him for having understood the reasons why he declined his offer of a conference in Strasbourg: ...I spent the month of July in Paris, a month filled with a comical and dismaying medical treatment. Here's my telephone number: Invalides 60-93. When you come there, please call me this autumn or during the winter. I must continue my treatment, and it can only take place in Paris or ...in Roscoff, close to Doctor Roche's laboratory... Jacques Lafaye is a French historian and ethnologist born in 1930. He was mainly interested in South America. His book, "Quetzalcoatl et Guadalupe, la formation de la conscience nationale mexicaine", with a preface by Octavio Paz, has become an important reference for understanding Mexican culture.