(MARIE MADELEINE MOTIER)

Peguy and Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine

London, Dennis Dobson. 1946, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small name to front endpaper and light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket has light wear to edges, two small repaired closed tears and is not price clipped.232 pages. 5 illustrations. Translated from the French by Ruth Bethell. Charles Péguy (1873-1914) was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor, and Catholicism strongly influenced his works. It is remarkable that no book has yet been produced in England about Péguy, and this translation from the French fills the gap. It is a complete biography taking in the whole of Péguy's life from childhood to his death on the Marne in 1914, by a bullet to the forehead. The author was his friend and colleague for many years. C3A. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 008395

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: French Essayist, Poet, Dreyfusard

ALLENTUCH, HARRIET RAY

Madame de Sevigne: A Portrait in Letters

Connecticut, Greenwood Press. 1978. (ISBN: 031320537X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black title on mustard cloth boards which have a few minor marks. Internally very clean and unmarked. Reprinted from the 1963 John Hopkins Press. xv + 219 pages. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Madame Sevigne (1626-1696) . Famous for her correspondence over twenty five years . NOT EX LIB 1. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000079

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Madame de Sevigne 031320537x

BILLY, ANDRE

The Goncourt Brothers

London, Andre Deutsch. 1960, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on orange boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age tonig to endpapers, a little light foxing to to and fore edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has a repaired closed tear and light wear and is not price clipped. 351 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Translated from the French by Margaret Shaw. Jules and Edmmond de Goncourt were the most remarkable pair of collaborators in the history of literature. Their lives were dedicated to each other and to the art of writing, to the exclusion of anything else of importance. As novelists, they were pioneers of realism; their books, in which the single-minded serch for truth sometimes resulted in over-documentation, are seldom read today, but their influence on the development of novel-writing cannot be overestimated. The brothers also acted as guides to the aesthetic taste of their time, notably in their enthusiasm for the 18th century and for the art of Japan. But it is their journals in which they recorded in minutest detail the French literary scene of th 19th century, which have assured their immortality. 3. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 009707

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, Gavarni, Daudet

RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, NICOLAS-EDME

Monsieur Nicolas or the Human Heart Laid Bare

London, Barrie and Rockliff. 1966, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title and decoration on blue boards which have a small white mark to back, a minor mark to front and a bump to one front corner. Internally there are two pages which have small holes which although affecting the text the text can still be discerned else very clean, tight and unmarked. 457 pages. 15 Illustrations. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Robert Baldick. Monsieur Nicholas is the story of Restif's life down to 1797, the facts of which are probably embroidered, but nevertheless the work remains a picture of 18th century society and as a frank and searching autobiography. It contains at the end 'Tenth Epoch' - My Last Afflictions and my Approaching End. 202. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000192

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: French Literature

BROUSSON, JEAN JACQUES

Anatole France Abroad

London, Thornton Butterworth. 1927. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt titles on purple cloth boards with gilt still bright, fading to spine and spine sides but no wear. Internally there is foxing to closed edges, endpapers and to the margins of a few pages else a clean, tight copy. Fore and lower page edges uncut. 301 pages. Photographic portrait frontispiece. An excellent biography of the celebrated author. 1. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000252

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Proust, Paul Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Pierre Loti,

COURCEL, MARTINE DE (EDITOR)

Malraux Life and Work

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297771779). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on black cloth boards. A near Fine unmarked copy. Slightly chipped dustjacket showing contributors and a stylised portrait of Malraux is not price clipped. Includes a major new essay especially written for this book by Malraux. Contributors include Isaiah Berlin, E.H. Gombrich,Walter Langlois, Hugh Thomas and Tadao Takemoto and 13 others. 37 illustrations. 21. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 000541

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Andre Malraux 0297771779

CROSLAND, MARGARET

Madame Colette - a Provincial in Paris

London, Peter Owen. 1953. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on blue cloth boards which have fading to spine and just a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 222 pages. Photograph of Colette to frontispiece and 6 other illustrations. An excellent later biography of Colette which includes a useful bibliography. A1B. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000218

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: French Biography

DUCLAUX, MADAME MARY

The French Procession - a Pageant of Great Writers

London, T. Fisher Unwin. 1909, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on spine with blind embossed title to front on blue cloth boards which have just a little wear to spine head and tail and corner tips and just a few very small light marks to front. Internally there is light foxing to endpapers and to closed edges, the odd spot to some pages and a small tear and crease to one rear endpaper margin, else clean, tight and unmarked. xiii + 358 pages. 6 plates as called for. Comprises: French poetry, Ronsard, Louis Quatorze, Racine, Fénelon, Fontenelle - the Prophet of Science, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Choderlos de Laclos, La Rochefoucauld Liancourt, Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Balzac, Alfred de Musset, Baudelaire, Gobineau, Michelet, Ernest Renan, Flaubert, Taine, Berthelot, Gaston Paris, Ferdinand Brunetière, Anatole France. B2C. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008471

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Ronsard, Louis Quatorze, Racine, Fénelon, Fontenelle, Voltaire, Rousseau, Saint-Pierre, Laclos, la Rochefoucauld Liancourt, Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, Hugo, Sand, Balzac, de Musset, Baudelaire, Gobineau, Michelet, Renan, Flaubert, Taine, Berthelot, Gasto

FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE

Intimate Notebook 1840-1841

London, W.H. Allen. 1967, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped and has a repaired closed tear. 59 pages. Introduction, translation and notes by Francis Steegmuller. 'I go from hope to anxiety, from wild optimism to dreary negation; its rain and sun, but its a gilded cardboard sun and a misty rain with no storm.' These words were written by one of France's greatest writers, the future author of Madame Bovary, when he was 18 years old. At that time Gustave Flaubert was living with his parents in Rouen, dutifully following his father's wishes by studying to enter the Paris Law School. Fortunately, however, his true ambitions were distinctly literary, and it was to an ordinary schoolboy's copybook that Flaubert confided his earliest longings and most intimate thoughts. Passed on to Flaubert's niece as part of his literary estate, and presumed lost for over 80 years, in 1965 the text of this precious document was discovered in France, and published there for the first time. It was immediately greeted as an authentic candid portrait of Flaubert experiencing the first tremors of his future creativity. In this journal he reveals himself to be a romantic, fiercely self-doubting adolescent, simultaneously 'struggling with the flesh, swimming in philosophy, and trying to convince himself of his own faith in his literary vocation.' 2. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 009700

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Gustave Flaubert, Early Notebook

FONTANA, BIANCAMARIA

Benjamin Constant and the Post-Revolutionary Mind

London, Yale University Press. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0300049951). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy with Very Good dustjacket which has a little fading to rear. xvii + 165 pages. The Swiss writer and political theorist Benjamin Constant was a key figure in the early 19th century attempt to come to terms with the new political world created by the French Revolution of 1789. In this book Biancamaria Fontana presents an overview of Constant's life and writings, showing the unity of his vision and exploring analogies between the issues he discussed and those that confront modern democratic states today. Constant indicated the principles and designed the constitutional arrangements best suited for a new society that was to be ruled by popular sovereignty and direct political representation and oriented toward economic growth and social equality. 24. As New/Very Good.

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Book number: 008383

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Swiss Writer, Political Theorist, 19th Century Intellectual, France History, Biography 0300049951

GRIBBLE, FRANCIS

George Sand and Her Lovers

London, Eveleigh Nash. 1907, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title and decoration to spine with gilt ruling, decoration and monogram to front on blue cloth boards. Some wear to spine sides, head and tail and some bumping to corners. Internally there is a small neat signature and date to front endpaper and age darkening of endpapers else clean and unmarked. Top edge gilt with fore and lower edges uncut. xix + 375 pages. Photogravure plates of George Sand (2), Jules Sandeau, Prosper Merimee, Alfred De Musset and Frederic Chopin tissue protected. One of the best biographies of George Sand with particularly good plates. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.85 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 4. Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000208

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: French Biography

HAMEL, FRANK

Jean de la Fontaine

London, Stanley Paul. 1911, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Photogravure portrait of La Fontaine to frontispiece tissue guarded and 16 other portraits. Not dated but The British Library has this as 1911 and the preface is dated Autumn 1911. Gilt signature of La Fontaine and lettering to spine on blue bevelled boards. Wear to board extremities, head and tail of spine frayed, contents clean with a small name to verso of frontispiece. Loose half title page at front advertising another book by author. 389 pages + 32 page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.96 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST The fairly SCARCE Stanley Paul edition NOT EX LIB C3C. Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000257

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: 17th Century, Poets

KING, GRAHAM

Garden of Zola

London, Barrie and Jenkins. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0214204030). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket.which is price clipped. A comprehensive account of the life of Emile Zola and his novels for English readers. Contains 44 illustrations. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.18 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1B. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 000510

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Zola 0214204030

LEMAITRE, JULES

Literary Impressions

London, Daniel O'Connor. 1921, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which have just a minor touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Translated by A. W. Evans. Short essays on Anatole France, Paul Bourget, Ernest Renan, Emile Zola, Guy De Maupassant, Pierre Loti, Hippolyte Taine, George Sand, Madame Sevigne, Joubert, Neo Hellenism and Madame Adam, Virgil and The Anonymous author of 'The Imitation'. Fascinating small volume by the French academician. B2B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000325

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: French Biography, Anatole France, Paul Bourget, Ernest Renan, Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Pierre Loti, Hippolyte Taine, George Sand, Madame Sevigne, Joubert, Neo Hellenism and Madame Adam, Virgil

MARMONTEL, JEAN FRANCOIS

Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself Containing His Literary and Political Life, and Anecdotes of the Principal Characters of the Eighteenth Century

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme and John Murray. 1805, First. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION COMPLETE IN FOUR VOLUMES. Vol. I - Front board is detached. Boards have stains and wear. Neat name to front endpaper. 206 pages+ 2 pages of adverts. Front gathering (up to page 24) loose and held on by a single thread. Edges mostly rough cut, spine mostly worn away but generally very clean and unmarked and binding tight ; Vol. II - Boards stained with wear. Neat name to front endpaper 346 pages+ 2 pages of adverts. Contemporary pencil calculation to rear endpaper. Edges mostly rough cut, spine mostly worn away but generally very clean and unmarked and binding tight ; Vol. III - Boards stained with wear. Neat name to front endpaper 356 pages. Edges mostly rough cut, spine mostly worn away but generally very clean and unmarked and binding tight ; Vol. IV - Boards stained with wear. Neat name to front endpaper 344 pages + 4 pages of adverts. Edges mostly rough cut, spine mostly worn away but generally very clean and unmarked and binding tight. PLEASE NOTE A HEAVY SET OF 1.33 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 1. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010910

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors