Author: Paul Feval
Title: Les Contes de Bretagne and Les Merveilles Du Mont Saint-Michel
Description: Paris, Societe Generale De Librarie Catholique, 1878-1879. Cloth. Two beautiful copies in the original decorative publisher's binding. In the original decorative publisher's cloth binding.New edition. Les Contes De Bretagne is a cautionary tale about ideas of place and identity. It was published in 1878. It is written in the style of a traditional folk tale. Paul Feval narrates the story from the perspective of a father talking to his children. The father tells his children the importance of home and identity. He says to them that though they live in Parsi they cannot forget their homeland of Brittany. Les Merveilles du Mont Saint-Michel is a story about the historical building of Mont Saint-Michel. It was published in 1879. The text is accompanied by one folding plate and two plates. Each plate shows the external and internal beauty of this building and why it is important to French identity. In the original decorative publisher's cloth Externally very smart. Fading to the spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot on the first and last pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: French History Decorative binding History None


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