GAULLE Charles de. Autograph manuscript, Télémaque, [1925 ?]; 4 pages small in-4. Amusing fantasy tale. Fantasy, in the manner of Offenbach's humorous transposition of ancient legends. The manuscript, which may be unfinished, contains a number of erasures and corrections. "Telemachus and Pisistratus finally arrived in Lacedemona and stopped their carriage at the door of the superb house of Colonel Menelaus. Colonel Menelaus was just giving his grand dinner in honour of the two weddings of his son and daughter, which he had just celebrated. As far as his daughter, Miss Hermione, was concerned, he was simply fulfilling a promise he had made himself during his Trojan campaign to marry her off if he returned from Troy to the son of Commander Achilles. The carriage that was to take the newly-weds away was ready. On the other hand, Colonel Menelaus was marrying his son Megaponthe, a lieutenant in the 20th battalion of chasseurs, to Miss Alastor, the daughter of a major industrialist from Sparta. In fact, the young Megaponthe had been born to one of his mistresses and Menelaus had subsequently recognised him, judging that his wife Helena's conduct towards him could spare him any scruples. What's more, after Hermione's birth, Helen had sworn she would not have another child; she was too attached to her slim figure"... LNC, I, p. 644-646.