Qui aime bien, châtie bien?: Roger de La Fresnaye dans les écrits de Guillaume Apollinaire

This chapter explores Guillaume Apollinaire's critical response to Roger de La Fresnaye's artistic output in several media between 1910 and 1914 in the light of the cultural context and personal relationship between the artist and the critic, both before and during the Great War. The article also takes into account the specificities and evolution of La Fresnaye's work during that period, his place among the cubists then exhibiting their work in galleries and Salons and contemporary debate on the relationship between fine art and applied, decorative arts. The chapter concludes with transcriptions of one letter from Apollinaire to Marie Laurencin and nine letters from La Fresnaye to Apollinaire.