PIERRE MILLE (1864 -1941) SET OF TWO SIGNED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS: 1) 'L'UN D'ENTRE NOUS' (ONE OF US), 2) ON TWO PRIZES FOR LITERATURE, 1933

1) 'L'UN D'ENTRE NOUS' (ONE OF US) Autograph manuscript signed, about tuberculosis in Brittany. 14 pages in8. In French. Very good condition. An (educational) account in which he tells the story of what 'one of you, I mean a reader of the Petit Journal' did. It's about a man suffering from tuberculosis who managed to cure himself and, once cured, returned to his village in Brittany and became an apostle of the hygiene needed to eradicate this scourge. 'In this region of Brittany, where alcoholism and poverty are the main causes, tuberculosis claims many victims'. Our man recounts his recovery, testifies, and suggests solutions such as opening windows that are 'unfortunately too small', putting an end to closed beds, 'how do you breathe in there'. He hands out brochures, talks about Koch's bacillus... - He hopes that his example will be emulated... 2) 'ON TWO PRIZES FOR LITERATURE 1933 Autograph manuscript signed. 11 pages in4. In French. Very good condition 'The Prix de la Renaissance was awarded this month to M. Elian Finbert for Le Fou de Dieu. The grand prize for Colonial Literature... was awarded to Emile Félix Gautier, not only for .... Genséric, roi des Vandales, but for the whole of his work'. Pierre Mille analyses the difficulties involved in choosing the prize-winners and their qualities. Pierre Mille - French writer, journalist and essayist. Elian Judas Finbert (1899-1977) - French writer of Jewish origin. Awarded the Prix de La Renaissance for 'Le Fou de Dieu' (1929) in 1933. A wildlife writer, he founded the Scènes de la vie des bêtes collection published by Albin Michel in 1936. Émile-Félix Gautier (1864-1940) - French geographer and ethnographer. Genséric, roi des Vandales, Payot, Paris, 1932, work on Algeria. Grand prix de Littérature Coloniale, 1933.