Historical Menu - Dinner At The Drancy Camp - September 1944 With Sacha Guitry

Historical Menu - Dinner at Drancy Camp 1944 with Sacha Guitry. I am offering for sale a poignant piece of French history: an authentic handwritten menu from the Drancy Camp, dated September 21, 1944, signed by several internees, including the renowned playwright Sacha Guitry. This menu humorously and ironically commemorates a dinner hosted by Sacha Guitry during his internment at Drancy in September 1944, during the post-war purges. It bears witness to this turbulent period of the Liberation, when many prominent figures were temporarily detained. This menu was designed by Mars-Trick (pseudonym of Maurice Tricoche), a French illustrator and caricaturist renowned for his humorous drawings published in the Parisian press between and after the wars. His lively and witty style is evident in the caricatured profile of Sacha Guitry wearing a beret and in the document's elegant layout. Left page: Château Drancy 1944, Clos Internement 1793, Liberation 1948 (name to be verified). With 8 handwritten signatures of fellow internees, including Fernand Henri Labourdette (renowned automobile coachbuilder, creator of the eponymous brand). Right page: Heading "Camp de Drancy," dinner of September 21, 1944, presided over by our fellow internee Sacha Guitry (Caricatured profile of Sacha Guitry wearing a beret). Complete menu inscribed in a rectangular frame including: Sardines in butter, Tomato salad, Foie gras, Roast, Sautéed potatoes, Peas à la Française, Assorted cheeses, Jams, Fruits, Coffee, Liqueurs. Illustration of a convict's ball and chain in the lower right corner. In the center of the document, handwritten inscription in pencil vertically: "To Mr. Mars-Trick - BRAVO - Sacha Guitry." Sacha Guitry thus pays tribute to Mars-Trick, who created this menu, a testament A touching testament to the recognition between these two talented men, brought together in dramatic circumstances. Framed: 33 x 28 cm. Menu only: 21 x 16 cm. This exceptional document offers a fourfold testimony to Sacha Guitry's internment during the post-war purges, the talent of Mars-Trick, an illustrator who witnessed his era, and the presence of Fernand Labourdette, an emblematic figure of the French luxury automobile industry. All presented with humor and irony.