Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript, L'Hécatombe, [1923]; 192 pages in-fol. (tear on 1st leaf). Complete manuscript of this book on the 1914 war This book of "stories and memories" (according to the subtitle) was published by the Nouvelle Librairie Nationale at the end of May 1923. It includes ten chapters and a conclusion: I How the war came; II The rise of the great lies. First defeats. The panic of the greedy. The dictatorship of Joffre and the victory of the Marne; III The scattering of the "vermin of the world"; IV How the synchronism between the two German thrusts was established: the one from within, the one from without; V Revolution in France or in Russia? France vaccinated; VI The drama of the Mutinies (May-June-July 1917); VII Insufficiency of the Presidents of the Council during three years of war; VIII The thunderbolt of the "Chèque Duval"; IX The first six months of Clemenceau's cabinet (November 17-May 27, 18); X Malvy's trial and the second victory of the Marne (July 1918); Reflections in the way of conclusion. The manuscript, complete, presents erasures and corrections, and press clippings stuck in the text.