General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderSouques, Genevieve
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationParis
Send date28.12.1968
RecipientŠafránek, Miloš
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationPrague
LanguageFrench
Former call number at IBM24/B/1
Call number at IBMSou 1968-12-28
Content and physical description
Content- apologies for the delay... it was necessary to take time to reply... ; she spent the war years with her family in Bordeaux... ; the writer's children were 5, 6 and 7 years old when the Gestapo arrested her husband... ; the Resistance... ; she was successively director of lycées in Limoges, in Lyon, and then also director of one of the large lycées in Paris...;
the writer has also been retired for more than two years now - she does not write books like the addressee, for which she compliments him - but she has been active in other ways, writing articles and taking part in conferences on literary or literary-historical subjects... ; 1968 - the bicentenary of Chateaubriand's birth... the writer spent a large part of her childhood in his home town... and still spends a certain part of the year there... so she devotes herself to this theme ; on this occasion she met Miss Ulbrich and asked her if she happened to know the addressee... and the addressee knows the rest himself... ; the writer describes her family situation - a grandmother nine times over... ; the life of one of her daughters... ;
the war, the death of Paul Desjardins at the very beginning of the war, parental worries... contacts from Pontigny severed ; she exchanges a few letters with his daughter (Mrs. Heurgon-Desjardins), who is trying to carry on the tradition in Normandy, but no longer attends the meeting, for fear of disappointment... ;
in Paris, the writer has only a kind of temporary refuge, in fact she lives in St. Malo - in her parents' house... ; she expresses the wish that they could meet together in Paris...
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation The document is not digitized. Hard copy available in Bohuslav Martinů Institute library.
Location as subject
Bordeaux
Limoges
Lyon
Paris
Pontigny
Saint-Malo
Person as subject
Chateaubriand, François René de
Desjardins, Paul
Heurgon-Desjardins, Anne
Ulbrichová,
Corporation as subject
Décades de Pontigny
Geheime Staatspolizei
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