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Gustave FLAUBERT

Madame Bovary

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1874, 9,5x16,5cm, 2 volumes reliés sous étuis.

Last edition published during the lifetime of the author, illustrated with a frontispiece. Binding bronze half calf, spine with four nerves set with golden dots and adorned with golden double boxes decorated with golden floral decorative motifs, part of title and author's name morocco raspberry, room volume number of morocco olive, flat paper Marbled guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, cases. Minute traces of friction on the back and slight wear on a bit of volume 1 Rarissime autograph dedication of the author (Louis) Ménard. "To my friend Ménard, Gustave Flaubert, 28 May 77." Scholar, painter, poet, philosopher, Hellenist and chemist Louis Ménard is the paragon of complete intellectual artist as it is envisaged in the nineteenth. It is the childhood friend of Baudelaire, initiates hashish, and participates with him Hashischins Club which also makes Flaubert. Very politically engaged, he attended Karl Marx and Proudhon, sided with the Revolution of 1848. Prologue Its a revolution, February to June 1848, published in 1849 earned him three years in prison and probably inspired Flaubert Sentimental Education for . As a painter, it binds with the Barbizon artists, as a chemist, he invented the collodion, and as a linguist, he tried unsuccessfully to reform spelling. At his death, Edward Champion publish in his honor The tomb of Louis Ménard collaboration with Huysmans, Louÿs Barres, Bourget, Claretie Coppe, Heredia, Houssaye, Montesquiou, Regnier, etc ... Fine copy pleasantly established with a rare autograph dedication of the author on this text.

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