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BEAUTIFUL AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on Alain Jouffroy's early career, addressed to the editor of the review Fontaine, Max-Pol Fouchet:

"St Florent le Vieil, 19 July
Dear friend,
I left Paris rather quickly, and didn't see you again as I had expected. But here's a chance to say hello. Recently I met Alain Jouffroy, whose poems in Néon (No. 2 and 3, I don't know if you've read them) interested me very much. He intrigues me quite a bit, and reminds me sympathetically of a heroic era - he's twenty years old, and seems to me to devote himself to poetry without worrying for a second about any means of subsistence. He would like to see you and perhaps show you some poems, and I think you could give him some good advice on the possibilities he may have of publishing what he has written - it is not much in volume.
Would you agree to see it (if you are still in Paris). In that case, drop me a line and I'll send it to you. I don't lose sight of the fact that you may have better things to do, and that in any case you always have a lot to do.
I also wanted to thank you for the kindness you showed me about the "Fisher King". I was very touched by it and have passed it on to Corti. I do hope that Fontaine will keep you for us in Paris in October. He must. His disappearance would be discouraging from many points of view. Saillet told me the other day that it was the only magazine whose disappearance would leave a void, and that is true. I often think about it with hope. Best regards.

Julien Gracq. "

One of the very first articles on Alain Jouffroy was published in the Revue Fontaine (No. 62, October 1947):  A note on young poetry par Henri Hell.