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André CHAMSON
Born6 juin 1900
Died8 novembre 1983
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
Archiviste-paléographe (promotion 1924)
Essayiste, romancier, historien et conservateur de musée
Membre de l'Institut, Académie française (1956-1983), directeur des Archives de France (1959-1971)
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First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on laid "bouffant" paper, ours one of the few off-trade. Signed autograph full page of André Pierre Dominique Chamson. Nice copy.
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on Alfa paper and reserved to the press service. Signed autograph Andre Chamson Robert Garric. Catholic reformist, he was the founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench" "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me.