Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript signed, L'Abcès dans le dos [The Dagger in the Back], Notes on the Malvy Affair, 1918; 139-11 pages in-fol. Pamphlet denouncing the Minister of the Interior Louis MALVY (1875-1949) for treason [he was cleared of this crime by the High Court, but sentenced to five years of banishment for having violated the duties of his office], published by the Nouvelle Librairie Nationale in 1918 under the title Le Poignard dans le dos [The Dagger in the Back]. The manuscript, signed and dated at the end of "September 918", and bearing the original title, is complete with the eight chapters and the Conclusion (Le Synchronisme de la guerre), arranged in folders titled in blue pencil. It shows erasures and corrections, with clippings pasted into the text.