[PYRENEES-ATLANTIQUES]. [MASLACQ]. ECOLE DES ROCHES]. Set of - Lot 291

[PYRENEES-ATLANTIQUES]. [MASLACQ]. ECOLE DES ROCHES]. Set of archives and documents relating to the Ecole des Roches, an elite school directed by André Charlier. Originally, the Ecole des Roches was a private French school founded by Edmond Demolins in 1899, in Verneuil-sur-Avre. At the time of the 1940 exodus, the school first retreated to Château Maslacq, until 1950, when students and teachers moved to the former Collège de Normandie, in Clères. The various people in charge of the school were right wing, liberal and moderate (Georges Bertier and Henri Trocmé), social and Catholic (Louis Garrone and Henri Marty) or nationalist and traditionalist (André Charlier). The aim is to prepare future leaders for "a new society [...] without any anti-Semitism". The documents in this set date from the period of André Charlier's leadership (1985-1971), who took over the school in 1941. It was to the students known as "captains" that Charlier addressed his "Letters" from September 1942 onwards, which have now been collected under the title Letters to the Captains. On the Ecole des Roches, see Nathalie Duval, L'Ecole des Roches, Paris, Belin, 2009. Numerous documents including: - Six manuscript project notebooks of the student magazine "Le Roitelet", November-December 1945. In all, six issues. - Five plays in one act, printed, Editions Lieutaud (Pau). Stamped "Royauté Chantaloise". - Manuscript theatre programme. - Prospectus of the former students of Les Roches ("Rocheux, mon camarade..."). - Various works by students. - Musical improvisation by Mr. Charlier, year 1945-46. - Roland Chantala dormitory notebook 1944-45; 1945-46 - Dormitory diary 1944-45. Poems, stories, drawings. - Project of the P.U.R. [Ultra Royalist Party] and other projects of the Roland Chantala dormitory. - Typescripts of the newspaper "L'Ami du peuple". - Various handwritten and typescript correspondence, including letters from André Charlier.