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FIRST EDITION.
EDITION OF 100 COPIES ON ANTIQUE PAPER.
Malcom de Chazal's second theatrical work after Iésou, Judas was first performed at the Théâtre du Plaza (Rose-Hill, Mauritius) on 25 February and 27 March 1960.

AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER:

"To Loys and Hervé Masson,
amicably,
L De Chazal
13/05/53"

Like Malcom de Chazal, the Masson brothers were also prominent figures on Île-Maurice. Loys (1915-1969), a writer and active member of the Poets' Resistance, was close to Aragon, Lanza del Vasto and Max-Pol Fouchet. In 1945, he was appointed General Secretary of the National Writers' Committeethen editor-in-chief of French letters in 1946, before devoting himself to novels and plays from 1948. He was awarded the 1962 Del Duca Foundation prize for his body of work.
A poet, but above all a painter, Hervé (1919-1990) achieved a degree of recognition after a contract with the Bernheim-Jeune-Dauberville gallery in Paris (1957-1968), then with the Cernuschi gallery in Paris and New York. His works can be found in many museums, including the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.