Lot no. 140
EAUBONNE (Françoise d'). Le Complexe de Diane. Paris, Juillard, 1951. In-12, paperback. First edition of this essay published in response to conservative criticism of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe.
A press service copy given to Colette, a very fine provenance for this feminist manifesto, with a long autograph letter signed by Françoise d'Eaubonne: To our dear and great Colette (our "undivided property"!) with all my thanks for the great joy her letter has given me and for the honour she has done me. I hope soon to have the great honour of asking her if Le Complexe de Diane has not bored her too much... With my deepest respect and gratitude "for being a woman, for being Colette", Françoise d'Eaubonne, who is waiting for her next book!
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