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Professional Ethics, and this was in 1937, in the Revue de Meta-
physique et de Morale. He did this, as he writes in his introductory
notes, to comply with the instructions given a few months
before his death in 191 7 by Durkheim, who intended some of
his manuscripts for Xavier Leon, the founder of the Revue de
Metaphysique et de Morale, in preference to others, as a mark of
his friendship. In doing this, Mauss announced that he would
publish later with these three lectures those on Civic Morals
which followed them.
In 1947, I published a Turkish translation of six lectures on
Civic Morals, which I had at my disposal, in the Revue de la
Faculte de Droit d' Istanbul. I had seen no trace of the publica-
tion planned by Mauss but I wanted first to make sure whether
it had been done. I enquired, but there was no reply from him.
I then, with the help of M. Bergeaud of the French Embassy,
appealed to Durkheim's daughter, Madame Jacques Halphen.
Mme. Halphen kindly sent me word that Marcel Mauss was
exhausted by all that he had suffered during the Occupation
and was not in a fit state to give any details at all. She later let
me know that she had been able to identify the manuscripts
in question from the copy I had sent her and that they were now
in the Musee de I'Homme with all the books and papers of
the Marcel Mauss Collection. Besides the three lectures on
Professional Ethics already published, these manuscripts
included, as she told me, fifteen lectures on Civic Morals which
had not so far appeared in France.
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