Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript signed, Le Coeur et l'Absence, wartime novel, 1917; [1]-210 pages in-fol. in autograph folder. Complete manuscript of this novel, published by Flammarion in 1917. It tells the story of a woman whose officer husband is deemed missing, and who becomes the mistress of a fashionable doctor. The husband, who was a prisoner, returns with the intention of taking revenge... The eight chapters are dated from March 1915 to May 1916. Léon Daudet dedicated this novel to his wife: "my dear and beneficent Pampille, light of my life and my works". The manuscript, signed and dated at the end "April 1917", in a folder with an autograph title is complete; it presents erasures and corrections, and is preceded by the dedication sheet.