Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript signed, Le Drame franco-allemand, [1940]; 95 pages in-fol. in titled folder. Published by Albin Michel in 1940, this essay traces this drama "from Bismarck to Hitler" (according to the subtitle). The Foreword explains: "This book is not a work of polemic. It is a book of historical psychology, seen mainly from the German side"... The manuscript, complete with this foreword and the 8 chapters, presents erasures and corrections, and press clippings pasted into the text.