Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript signed, Fantômes et vivants, 1914; 4-227 pages in-fol. First volume of Léon Daudet's fascinating souvenirs. Published by the Nouvelle Librairie Nationale in 1914, these "souvenirs of literary, political, artistic and medical circles" (according to the subtitle) go from 1880 to 1885; Léon Daudet dedicated them to his mother. He evokes his father Alphonse Daudet, Clemenceau, Zola, Flaubert, Goncourt, Mistral and the Félibres, the Lemerre bookshop, Drumont, Marcel Schwob, Claudel, the death of Victor Hugo, Princess Mathilde, etc. The manuscript, dated at the end of June 1, 1914, is complete and includes the Introduction and the six chapters of the book; it presents erasures and corrections.