Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript signed, Le Monde des Images, 1919; 222 pages in-fol. Complete manuscript of this essay, "continuation of L'Hérédo". At the head of the first chapter, Daudet explains: "I wrote, in the propositions that form the conclusion of L'Hérédo, that man lives and dies by his images"; this is the subject of this essay. The manuscript, signed and dated at the end "July 18, 1919", presents erasures and corrections; it is preceded by a sheet of dedication to Doctor René Lefeunteun, "major of the marine fusiliers at Dixmude". It is complete with the chapters: I Analysis of the image: the senses and beyond; II Synthesis of the image: the Personimages; III and IV The disruption of the Personimages; V Personal memory, hereditary memory and desire; VI and VII The word and what it evokes; VIII The Personimages and the creative conception in all the domains; IX The sphericity of the Personimages. The omission, the forgetting and the amnesia; X The sleep, the dream and the elimination of the personimages.