MESRINE Jacques (1936-1979) nicknamed public enemy number on - Lot 78

MESRINE Jacques (1936-1979) nicknamed public enemy number one. 5 L.A.S. to Jeanne Schneider, Fleury-Merogis prison, December 20-24. 10 pp. folio. On December 20, he announces "today I went before the court for having dared to write [] 'Monteuil is a cocksucker'. [He sentenced me to 15 days' solitary confinement suspended []" and continued, "I don't understand my sudden change [] everything is going to end very badly, I can feel it. [On the 21st, he explains the best routes to Fleury-Mérogis. He talks about his daughter's progress, debts and the silence of Daoust, his lawyer in Canada; on the 22nd, he expresses his hatred of the prison administration; on the 23rd, Mesrine sticks to a newspaper clipping about lobster. He writes of his work "[] I understand why people find my manuscript hard, because it's my life. There's not a comma of bluff. [It's the life of a man who has known violence and has no regrets about it. [] I'm certain that a publisher will agree to publish it []"; on the 24th, he gives a glowing review of a book by "Raf", and tells him that the prisoner "mémé Guerini" who had died is doing well, and he jokes about it.