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François MITTERRAND – Autograph letter signed to Catherine Langeais

Autograph letter signed to Marie-Louise Terrasse, known as Catherine Langeais. (Fort d'Ivry), November 17, 1938; 2 pages in-4°.
Beautiful letter from the young soldier at the Fort d'Ivry, who philosophizes with delight on his amorous passion: "My beloved little girl, Like yesterday, I am writing to you at one o'clock. And the same scenario: soon I'm going to have to go down the stairs that so many nails have hammered down four by four! Last night you were against me, and I could express my love to you (never well enough). And every time I leave you, I think "I will never be able to love him more". And yet I feel like I still love you more. This is no doubt due to the fact that we know each other better every day: a terrible ordeal, from which we emerge more sure of ourselves, with the certainty of an indestructible love. My very darling little girl, how to understand this chance which made us meet one evening of a ball, and which made us fall in love from the first time! And above all how to understand that a love born without any other foundation than an impression could prove to be lasting, could resist a thorough knowledge? Oh my dearest, how I love you for not disappointing me! How I love you for revealing your brand new soul to me, for giving me all that you only give once with all your strength, with all your will to live. I see that the strength to love wears out like everything else when you abandon it to the winds! But I see it stronger than time when you give it with all your being, without restrictions, only the absolute counts, and only the absolute can offer happiness. Because I love you totally, with the absolute adherence of my being, I now know what happiness is. Life could be hostile to me and only leave me with disappointments. I would be even stronger than it because I have you: the rest means nothing. My beloved, how attentively we must live! We will have to reject without hesitation everything that can divide us: our love is now our happiness. Anything that attacks us two, who have everything since we love each other, we must crush without weakness. My Marie-Louise, I adore you. I know you love me, and I'm happy for you. You know I would do anything for you, anything. Tonight I will see you. That's all I'll think about until then, and when I hold your face you'll know the truth of my love. And now I will take my rifle. This afternoon, shooting, at five o'clock: hop there! I pass the post, and will find the one I love. I will be unshaven: why waste all this time writing to you, Miss my darling? Why ! Because I love you more than anything. Francis »

Catherine Langeais (1923 - 1998), born Marie-Louise Terrasse, the most popular announcer on French television from 1949 to 1975, met François Mitterrand on January 28, 1938, during the ball at the École Normale Supérieure, when she was not am only 14 years old. Love at first sight is immediate, but despite the age difference, Mitterrand is 7 years her senior, they decide to get engaged. Military service at Fort d'Ivry, then the war put some distance, however, Mitterrand wrote more than 200 passionate letters to his dear Zou. Out of sight out of mind, their love withers despite the 80 letters sent by her distraught fiancé. The heart of Marie-Louise is on fire for a Polish count whom she will end up marrying, Mitterrand, as for him, will marry in 1944 with the young resistance fighter Danielle Gouze, met during the war
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