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Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. Typescript signed "LF...

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Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. Typescript signed "LF Céline", Copenhagen November 6, 1946; 10pages in-4. Memorandum in his defense, mimeographed in approximately 75 copies, which Céline had sent to France and the United States, this one signed in his own hand. It is entitled: "Réponses aux accusations formulées contre moi par la Justice française au titre de trahison et reproduites par la Police judiciaire danoise au cours de mes interrogatoires". Attached are 4 mimeographed ff. (6p.) giving a copy of the April 30, 1948 judgment acquitting the Denoël publishing house, a paragraph of which is underlined in red pencil, with a comment that this paragraph clears Céline "of the charge of having published during the occupation writings of a nature to harm national defense". Cahiers Céline 7, p.245.