Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript, Les Bacchantes, [1930]; 149 pages fol. Complete manuscript of this "contemporary novel", published by Flammarion in 1931. The novel was put on the Index by the Vatican, a measure that contributed to its success. The manuscript presents numerous erasures and corrections; it is complete with the nine chapters of the novel. The first page bears the original title : La Villa des Mystères, crossed out in blue pencil and replaced by the new title : Les Bacchantes. Attached: - plans and sketches (22 ff. various sizes); - the file of a theatrical adaptation project in 4 acts and 15 tableaux: list of characters under the title La Villa des Mystères (2 ff), "draft" of the cutting (14 p.), and of the script and dialogues (35 p.), and ms (88 p. with typed passages pasted in), plus a 2nd version of the 1st tableau (11 p.), with a long L.A.S of remarks by Jacques HÉBERTOT (16 p. in-4).