JOUHANDEAU Marcel (1888-1979) L.A.S. "Marcel", December 24, 1946, to Jean COCTEAU; 2 pages in-12 in purple ink. On L'Aigle à deux têtes[the play was premiered on December 21, 1946 at the Théâtre Hébertot, by Edwige Feuillère and Jean Marais, in sets by André Beaurepaire and costumes by Christian Bérard]. "My Jean, There were behind me two big vulgar ladies who repeated: "He's getting comfortable with History". As if history existed! As if there were anything but stories! And if the one you bring back wasn't the only one that matters. When the lovers exchange their music in the second act, you have found Cornelius' language again, without leaving yours. People die of not being dead, saying such things and I fell asleep with Jeannot's poison in my veins and Edwige's dagger in my back. This is the theatre: it is to take us to this limit of the human being where he no longer compromises. The next day we go back to our feeder, all ashamed. And thank you to Beaurepaire, to Christian, to you, for having resurrected this redemption of the Wittelsbach. Thanks to you I recognized a little better this Elizabeth whom we loved with love and cried, children, when the noise came to us from her death in Geneva"....