FARRÈRE Claude (1876-1957) [AF 1935, 28e f]. MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Claude Farrère", Le Baptême; 28 pages in-4 (small tears without loss of text on the first 2 ff). Complete manuscript of this short story collected in Quatorze Histoires de soldats (Flammarion, 1916). It is written on the letterhead of the Grand Café Brestois in Brest, and presents numerous erasures. It is the story of a Breton soldier, Jean-Claude Pouldu, who left in 1914 on the French-Belgian border. Attached is a typed text with autograph corrections and additions (1 page and a half in-4) in response to a journalist about his candidacy for the chair of Jean Richepin.