Léon DAUDET (1867-1942) Autograph manuscript signed, L'Abcès dans le dos [The Dagger in the Back], Notes sur l'affaire Malvy, 1918; 139-11 pages in-fol. Pamphlet denouncing Interior Minister Louis MALVY (1875-1949) for treason [he was cleared of this crime by the High Court, but sentenced to five years' banishment for violating the duties of his office], published by Nouvelle Librairie Nationale in 1918 under the title Le Poignard dans le dos. The manuscript, signed and dated at the end of "September 918", and bearing the original title, is complete with all eight chapters and the Conclusion (Le Synchronisme de la guerre), arranged in folders titled in blue pencil. It shows erasures and corrections, with newspaper clippings pasted into the text.