Paris: Librairie Hachette. 1946. Binding: Full wine red morocco boards. Upper decorated with border of leather onlay detail and central leather onlay in the shape of France. Spine with 6 raised bands gilt lettering in compartments 2 3 and 4. Gilt rolls on board edges. Gilt dentelles. Gold-tone fabric endpapers. All edges gilt. Notes: Limited edition #4062 executed by Paul Calvin and Jacques Wittman.<br>Text in French. <br>Louis Emile Marie Madelin 1871 – 1956 was a French historian specializing in the French Revolution and First French Empire and a Republican Federation deputy for Vosges from 1924 to 1928. He is buried at the Cimetière de Grenelle. Madelin was born in Neufchâteau Vosges. Studying history at the École des chartes he became a member of the École française de Rome then a professor at the faculty of letters of Paris. He married in 1898 having four children by his first wife and on her death remarried in 1909 to Marthe Clavery. During the First World War he was conscripted in 1914 becoming a second lieutenant and information officer before being demobbed in 1918 and receiving the Croix de Guerre. Elected to the Académie française in 1927 replacing Robert de Flers in seat 5 in Lorraine he became president of the Association des Amis du berceau de Jeanne d'Arc upon the death of Lyautey – the Association organised mass demonstrations in Domrémy from 1937 to 1939 under the aegis of the Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc. In 1948 he participated in the creation of the Comité pour la Libération du Maréchal Pétain.<br><br> Size: Quarto 280 x 220 mm Illustration: Very good example of this sumptuously bound volume a fine example of bookbinding. Volume I only. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Pages: 396 pp. Category: Book Europe France; Librairie Hachette. hardcover
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Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Withi hardcover
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