GAULLE Charles de. Autograph manuscript and corrected typescript, [Philosophie du recrutement, 1929]; 19 and 21 pages large in-4, slightly frayed at head, brown trace, adhesive tape. Interesting file on the drafting of an article on the citizen-soldier and the soldier. This article, published in the Revue de l'Infanterie on 1st April 1929, has been published in a new edition. complex editing. * First draft and working manuscript, in black and violet ink, abundantly illustrated. and corrected, with important passages crossed out; almost every sentence has been then redone. It is paginated 1-20; page 2 is missing. This is a first version, longer and very different from the definitive text. Here is the beginning, which was difficult to put into not a century has gone by without the world having received the detestable visit of the of war. No people has been born, grown up or died without bearing the burden of war. the burden of arms. Alas, struggle is the history of mankind. But you can't get used to misfortune"... * Working typescript with substantial autograph additions, paginated from 0 to 22 (with a few unnumbered pages; p. 4, 5, 15 are missing), with 5 pages added entirely by hand. The text is still very different from the article. Some pages of the typescript have been cut out, and important passages have been have been crossed out, and numerous autograph corrections and additions have been made to the text. many corrections and additions have been made in typescript, with important developments on autograph leaves, like this one: "It is therefore from the moral forces of the soldier that this this acceptance of sacrifice, this constancy in the ordeal, this linking of effort to to that of others, which are the mainspring of warlike action. But the sources of morale are extremely varied, and we cannot claim to impose on the combatant identical tasks - whatever their origin. While it is true that in war the use of principles that are valid at all times and in all countries, it is no less true that an Athenian from the 5th century BC could not have been made to fight in a war. our era as an Immortal of Darius, a legionary of Caesar as a Gallic of Camulogenes, a militiaman of Philip-Augustus as a German mercenary, an an Austrian from Coburg as a volunteer from 93, a mobile from 1870 as a Zouave of Magenta, an Englishman of 1914 as a Frenchman of the Marne. The provisions made by the leader: the missions given, the choice of place, time, measure are constantly dominated by the soldier's moral attitude". Attached is another typescript with a few autograph corrections and additions to the text. and corrections and annotations by Émile Mayer (14 p.). The title "Introduction" has been added in pencil at the beginning; perhaps de Gaulle had in mind to add this title. to put this text at the head of Vers l'armée de métier. Articles and writings, p. 131-141. Le Fil de l'épée and other writings, p. 649-657.