GIDE ANDRE: (1869-1951) French Author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1947. A good unpublished draft article ...

GIDE ANDRE: (1869-1951) French Author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1947. A good unpublished draft article manuscript by Gide related to the World War One foyer Franco-Belgian. A lengthy and interesting draft, two pages, to different sheets, folio, n.p., n.d., in French, including multiple corrections, amendments, slightly untidy, stating in part `I have had to end up going there to see by myself. Because beneficence is the school of mistrust.. Philanthropy has often only a distant connection with true charity. ''We cannot please everybody'' they respond to me when I transmit the complaints of some particularly mistreated refugees…´ further referring to the Franco-Belgian foyer and to the denounces related to the cloakrooms saying in part `..we have had a lot of trouble to persuade people that the Franco-Belgian foyer attends equally the French.. Nevertheless the complaints about the cloakrooms became lately so numerous that files were full. I know it is a scabrous matter, very difficult and irritating, this is why the assistance must work and fight against such kind of abuse..´ Overall age wear with trimmed edges. G