Editing Louis-Ferdinand Céline (section)

===Final years in France (1951–1961)===
[[Image:Louisferdinandceline2.jpg|thumb|left|Drawing of Louis-Ferdinand Céline]]

Back in France, Céline signed a contract with the publisher [[Éditions Gallimard|Gallimard]] to republish all his novels. Céline and Lucette bought a villa in [[Meudon]] on the southwestern outskirts of Paris where Céline was to live for the remainder of his life. He registered as a doctor in 1953 and set up a practice in his Meudon home, while Lucette established a dance school on the top floor.<ref>{{Harvp|Vitoux|1992|pp=518, 521, 534}}</ref>

Céline's first postwar novels, ''Féerie pour une autre fois'' and ''Normance'', received little critical attention and sold poorly.<ref>{{Harvp|Vitoux|1992|pp=531, 534}}</ref> However, his 1957 novel ''D'un château l'autre'', a chronicle of his time in Sigmaringen, attracted considerable media and critical interest and revived the controversy over his wartime activities. The novel was a modest commercial success, selling close to 30,000 copies in its first year.<ref>{{Harvp|Vitoux|1992|pp=540-545}}</ref> A sequel, ''Nord'', was published in 1960 to generally favourable reviews. Céline completed a second draft of his final novel, ''Rigodon'', on 30 June 1961. He died at home of a ruptured [[aneurysm]] the following day.<ref>{{Harvp|Vitoux|1992|pp=551-557}}</ref>