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Breton’s handwritten notes from May 1958 concerning a demonstration against the Algerian war.
Probably intended for an English audience, as the invocation of ‘our English friends’ and especially the deliberate anglicism (use of the word ‘demonstration’ rather than ‘manifestation’) would attest, this statement from May 1958 is presented as a commentary on the events as they occurred: Breton exalts popular energy and refers to 1793, denounces the servility of the press and proposes that we should mistrust personal power. [Atelier André Breton website, 2004]
Handwritten manuscript
1/2 page in-4° handwritten in ink by André Breton, with erasures and corrections of this text about the demonstration against the Algerian war that took place on 28 May going from La Nation to Sq de la République.
On the English radio on the arrival of De Gaulle to power, in May 1958. [sale catalogue, 2003]
Access to the CERMTRI digital library which has digitized and put issues of La Vérité online.
*This entry was translated from the French by Michael Richardson.
| Creation date | 1958 |
| Bibliographical material | ½ page in-4° - Ms - blue ink |
| Languages | French |
| Reference | 784000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2428 |
| Keywords | Diary, Work notes, Politics |
| Categories | Manuscripts, Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] Manuscripts 1958-1966 |
| Permanent link | https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100507060 |