Guillaume APOLLINAIRE, autograph manuscript, [Le Sacrilège, 1907] 4 pages in-4 (small tear, cracks and edges well repaired). Fragment of the draft of this tale from L'Hérésiarque et Cie. Le Sacrilège was first published in Vers et Prose (March-May 1907, leaves from the review attached), then collected in L'Hérésiarque et Cie (1910). These two sheets contain Father Seraphim's reflections on the canonisations, followed by the consecration of the loaves in a bakery and the monk's visit to the Archbishop, who invites him to lunch and confesses to a mortal sin. This text corresponds to pages 95 to 97 of Volume I of the Œuvres en prose (Pléiade), from "Les lettres bleuâtres du nom d'Elinor" to "Je suis un grand pécheur", with significant variants, erasures and corrections. A long passage after the blessing of the loaves has not been retained in the edition: "At that moment the devil of pride dwelt in the monk's heart. Now, a devil never comes alone, and you can feel that he is always called Legion. Father Seraphim raised his arm. In the clear morning, the sun streaked the pavement through the rustling foliage of the avenue trees, and Elinor's name stood out in bruised letters on the skin of his nervous arm. The demon of concupiscence aroused a perverse regret in the soul of the former devil's advocate, who remained staring at the female name for a long time. This morose delight ended with a sort of sigh. The monk murmured Hei morior and resumed his walk. Legion was restless in this body. The demon of laziness did so much that the monk spent the whole morning in the beautiful streets"... There are 4 pen-and-ink drawings in the margins of the first page: a kneeling figure, a bearded man in a frock coat, the silhouette of a monk, and a woman in a dress. Former Guillaume Apollinaire collection (sale 18 May 1988, no. 17).