GAULLE (Yvonne de) Marly-le-Roi, 19 April [1946]... Autograph letter signed to Yvonne Salmon. 2 p. in-4 on laid paper. Amusing letter: "the general is doing very well, writing his memoirs. "The 'lone wolf of the woods', as the Americans say, still has very good teeth". After the General gave up his bid to remain at the head of the provisional government, the couple stayed at Marly-le-Roi between 21 January and 25 May 1946, as their residence at La Boisserie in Colombey-les-deux-Églises had been damaged during the war and needed work. Yvonne Salmon (1885-1965), an army nurse during the Great War, then professor of French civilisation at Reading University, offered her services to General de Gaulle after the 18 June Appeal. An active propagandist for the Free French, 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.