[Louis Couturier dit Michel CARROUGES].

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[Louis Couturier dit Michel CARROUGES].
Collection of documents gathered by Marcel Jean around the "Carrouges Affair". 1951. Collection in-4 : brown half-maroquin (period binding). Important collection of documents gathered at the time by Marcel Jean around the "Carrouges Affair" - or rather the "Pastoureau Affair". Reminder of the facts: "Having learned that Michel Carrouges, who called himself a surrealist and who had made friends with several members of the group, was going to give a conference at the Catholic Centre of French Intellectuals on the theme: "Is surrealism dead? So, with the help of Marcel Jean, Hérold and Waldberg, Pastoureau organised the sabotage of the conference on 12 February, for which he was criticised by Breton. Pastoureau then distributed a mimeographed text, dated 28 February: Aide-mémoire relatif à l'Affaire Carrouges, in which the recriminations went far beyond the affair in question. He reproached Breton for his unbridled anti-Stalinism, a source of laxity in the face of deviations from the fundamental principles of Surrealism, including, of course, atheism. Supported by Péret, Breton replied on March 16 [...]. Things got worse and finally, at a general assembly on March 19, at the same time as relations with Carrouges were ended, Pastoureau was excluded from the group. Others, Jean, Hérold, Henry, distanced themselves from the group, reproaching Breton for his lack of firmness and his fluctuating positions" (Dictionnaire André Breton, p. 770). The collection of documents assembled by Marcel Jean, the most complete that can be, contains in particular the very rare printed poster concerning the Affair, here in four copies of different colours. Detail : - Catalogue of new products from a religious publishing house praising a text by Michel Carrouges on "Lourdes, land of miracles". - Henri Pastoureau, Aide-mémoire relative à l'Affaire Carrouges. Double carbon copy of the autograph manuscript with ink corrections, possibly by Marcel Jean (6 ff. in-4 and 3 lines, with 1 title sheet in Marcel Jean's hand and the mention in pencil : "50 ex."). - Henri Pastoureau, Aide-mémoire relative à l'Affaire Carrouges. Typescript printed at 50 copies to be communicated to the members of the surrealist group (17 ff. in-4). - André Breton and Benjamin Péret, Letters to Henri Pastoureau, March 12, 1951. 1 p. in-4. - Typed letter intended for all those who had received the Aide-Mémoire. - Typed letter from Henri Pastoureau, March 14, 1951, 1 p. in-4, convening a general assembly. - Handwritten copy, in the hand of Marcel Jean, of a letter from Pastoureau of March 18, 1951 (2 pp. in-8) fuelling the controversy Some names and addresses of surrealists on the back. - André Breton and Benjamin Péret, L'Affaire Pastoureau & Cie (tenants et aboutissants), March 16, 1951. 9 in-4 typewritten sheets with autograph signatures of the two authors. - Typewritten minutes of the General Assembly of March 19, 1951 (3 in-4 sheets with autograph corrections) - Polemical letter to André Breton from Adolphe Acker and Marcel Jean dated February 22, 1951 (1 p. in-4 typewritten). - Henri Pastoureau, Observations relative to the Breton-Péret pamphlet: l'affaire Pastoureau et Cie and to the minutes of the meeting of March 19, 1951, March 23, 1951. Typescript of 1 f. of title and 13 leaves in-4. - Maurice Henry, Letter to André Breton, March 24, 1951. 18 in-4 typewritten leaves. Maurice Henry gives his support to Pastoureau and does not mince his words towards Breton: "There is now a smell of sacristy on the Place Blanche side." - Patrick Waldberg, Les Mystères de la Place Blanche, April 23, 1951. 3 ff. in-4 typewritten. Very rare pamphlet against Breton. Marcel Jean had it preceded by an ironic typed title sheet: Aide-mémoire pour servir à la compréhension de " l'Aide-Mémoire sur l'Affaire Carrouges" by Henri Pastoureau, followed by "L'Affaire Pastoureau et Cie" by André Breton and Benjamin Péret, followed by etc. - A few press clippings (Figaro littéraire, Combat of May 24, 1951). - The very rare poster concerning the affair (broadsheet, folded in three) here in 4 copies of 4 different colours, red, green, blue and yellow. - A la niche les glapisseurs de Dieu !, Ed. Surréalistes, Paris, 1948. Tract in-12, stapled. Collective anti-religion text written in large part by H. Pastoureau. - J.F. Chabrun, La Mystique et l'Enthousiasme (Surrealism and Religion), Ed. La Main à Plume. In-8 of (4) ff. in sheets. Rare booklet printed on brick-coloured paper. Remarkable set. From the library of Marcel Jean, with bookplate.
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