PÉTAIN Philippe (1857-1951) marechal de France, chef de l'Etat francais. 2 L.A.S. "Ph. Pétain", 1927-1933; 1 page in-8 each with Le Maréchal Pétain letterhead, one envelope. Antibes September 29, 1927, to a friend: "Your appreciation of Douaumont's speech flatters me very much, but I hope that it will not be shared by the Académie française, which owes it to itself not to recruit exclusively from among the military"... March 20, 1933, to Mrs. Robert Brussel, sending her an autograph: "But you are more demanding, and you are asking for a manuscript. But I don't have one. Since the invention of the typewriter, all my work has been copied by machine and the drafts destroyed..."...