Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript signed, Au temps de Judas, [1920]; 1-196 pages in-fol. (a few ff. crumbled). Fifth volume of Léon Daudet's fascinating memoirs. Published by the Nouvelle Librairie Nationale in 1915, this 5th series of Léon Daudet's "souvenirs of literary, political, artistic and medical circles" runs from 1894 to 1904; Daudet evokes "the Jewish power" and anti-Semitism under the influence of Drumont, various figures of Jews (Naquet, C. Mendès, M. Schwob, B. Lazare, A. Meyer, L. Blum), the rise of anticlericalism and antimilitarism, the league of the French Fatherland and the nationalist movement, the Syveton affair, etc. The manuscript includes the eight chapters of the book (one chapter VI has been deleted); it presents erasures and corrections, and the dedication leaflet to Marthe Daudet.