GAULLE (Yvonne de) Colombey, 29 December [19]62... Autograph letter signed to Yvonne Salmon. 2 p. in-4. Surprising letter from the General's wife on the presidential couple's weariness with the exercise of power: "Yes, we must try to 'hold on' for a while longer - but really, at our age, the job is hard - the sooner a good replacement is found, the better. In any case, even if God lends us life and health, the limit will be the end of 66. She adds: "The eldest of our grandsons is just 14 years old and measures 1m73! The second and third follow in the same footsteps. We're in second, fifth and eighth grade. Yvonne Salmon (1885-1965), an army nurse during the Great War and later a professor of French civilisation at Reading University, offered her services to General de Gaulle after the 18 June Appeal. An active propagandist for Free France, she published the first biography of the General, entitled Le général de Gaulle, in London in 1943. After the war, she remained a convinced Gaullist.