in French, detailing his travels to Italy and Greece by car with his brother and sister-in-law, from Brussels via the Ardennes, Munich and Austria, then Merano and into the Veneto, describing the works of art he saw, including the frescoes by Giotto in Padua ("très beaux mais très effacés, la couleur a perdu son éclat"), the statue of condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio and Carpaccio's depiction of St George in Venice, conveying enthusiastically his very detailed observations of the Acropolis ("La Parthénon et l'Acropole [...] la plus forte impression du voyage [...] on traverse les Propylées et une fois dehors le Parthénon apparait majestueusement sur la droite, et à gauche, le [...] Erechteion, tout petit et si pur dans sons architecture ionique elegante").
7 pages in all, 8vo (210 x 135mm.), including a full-page sketch of the Acropolis, Boitsfort, 22 February 1957