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Monsieur De Folleuil La Paix Des Champs And Miquette.
1898FGN9-C-11Paris: Felix Juven and Calmann Levy 1898-1899. Leather. Good. 7" by 4.5" . None. A scarce three volume collection of novels by one of the most provocative French figures of the fin-de-siecle. Sibylle Aimée Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau Comtesse de Martel de Janville was a French writer who adopted the male nom de plume Gyp under which she published over one hundred novels yet stated she took no pleasure form writing. Gyp wrote humorous novels and sketches which brazenly denounced her own fashionable society as well as the French republic's political class on top of this she was a fanatical anti-semite. Due to her unpopular opinions many attempts were made on her life including a sensational kidnapping. Miquette and Monsieur De Folleuil are made up of of dialogue between characters and this genre of satirical dialogue-novels was named "one of the happiest forms" by Henry James. In French. In a quarter calf binding. Externally sound with some marks to board and rubbing to corners and wear to heads of spines. Backstrips of La Paix and Folleuil are lifting. Internally firmly bound with light age toning to page edges. Good Felix Juven and Calmann Levy hardcover
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