{"id":18696,"date":"2024-06-21T13:29:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=18696"},"modified":"2025-01-31T16:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:45:49","slug":"les-sept-dernieres-plaies","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/shop\/drieu-la-rochelle-pierre,duhamel_georges\/lettres\/les-sept-dernieres-plaies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Last Plagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FIRST EDITION.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne of the press copies. Large paper editions are available.<br \/>\n<strong>Autograph signed letter to Pierre Drieu la Rochelle:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"to Pierre Drieu la Rochelle,<br \/>\nwithout hesitation<br \/>\nDuhamel<br \/>\nOctober 28\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Duhamel and Drieu la Rochelle, veterans of the Great War, both occupied a prominent place in the literary milieu between the wars: Drieu, who had already published his <em>Feu Follet<\/em>in May 1934, was awarded the Renaissance prize for short stories, while Duhamel, thanks in particular to the success of the <em>Chronicle of the Pasquiers<\/em>Drieu was admitted to the Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise in 1935. During the Occupation, however, their positions diverged: while Duhamel confronted the Petainist faction of the Acad\u00e9mie, Drieu firmly supported the regime. Jean Cassou (<em>A life for Freedom<\/em>), reports :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Georges Duhamel told me that he met this same Drieu during the Occupation and said to him: \"Drieu... Do you know, Drieu, what you're doing at the moment?\" The other man made a vague, slightly apologetic gesture: \"Yes, yes... obviously... But you understand, I am now too committed... I can't back out now...\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Drieu, for his part, admitted that he approved of the Vichy decision to ban Duhamel's work: \"<em>Just because you're a great writer doesn't mean you can pretend to escape the consequences of the political opinions you express.<\/em>\"he explains to L\u00e9autaud (<em>Literary Journal<\/em>6 December 1940). The very qualifier of \"great writer\" needs to be qualified, since he confided, again to L\u00e9autaud, that he had \"never been a great writer\".<em>no taste for Duhamel's literature.<\/em>\"(19 June 1941)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST EDITION<br \/>\nInscribed and signed by the author<br \/>\nto Pierre Drieu la Rochelle<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":18698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"boutique":[198],"cat_gallery":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[18,33],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18696","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","theme-lettres","auteurs-drieu-la-rochelle-pierre","auteurs-duhamel_georges","boutique-librairie","editeur-mercure-de-france","product_cat-litterature","product_cat-provenances-remarquables","first","outofstock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/18696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"boutique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/boutique?post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"cat_gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_gallery?post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=18696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}