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It is the most ardent universal wish, and the least consistent of human achievements.
It was desired and conceived by the earliest societies, serving at once as ferment and cement. Subsequently the same societies tore themselves apart and reconciled in its very name.
It stems from the best of intentions and is used as pretext for the worst behavior.
It is the enemy of War although it means ceaselessly preparing for conflict.
To enjoy it, some are ready to die standing while others accept to live on their knees.
A truth ignored in 1914, it became an error committed in 1939.
It is a difficult ascent toward harmony,
And a dangerous slope toward chaos.
It is acquired each day and never possessed.
It is not a state; it is a struggle:
Peace.
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INVESTIGATION. "Let us read Romain Rolland again as the world darkens"
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For Jean-Christophe, "universal life" is not a trivial activity but a long quest toward wisdom and European fraternity.
Supported by Péguy, admired by Zweig, loved by Gorky, Romain Rolland embodies the ultimate pacifist and universalist struggle against the world’s warmongering passions.
Le Feu Follet has discovered the unique copy belonging to the administrator of the Cahiers de la Quinzaine, with exceptionally added contributions by Charles Péguy, as well as Rolland's corrections and comments. It includes proof sheets and other traces of the immense work undertaken for this extraordinary opus, a literary testament to what Europe could have been–had the pacifists won the (pre-)war.
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SELECTION. « Pacifist Writers »
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Imagine all the people
Living their lives in peace.
John may be a dreamer,
But he's not the only one,
He hopes that one day...
Tomorrow perhaps?
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FOCUS. Ange Goudar, The Peace of Europe Cannot Be Established Without a Long Truce, or Project for a General Pacification
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"It can be demonstrated geometrically that there is no certainty so long as survival of mankind is but a sort of game of chance, and as the destruction of the human species will depend upon the caprice of war and the fortune of arms.
It is true that imagination strays, and reason is confounded, when one seeks to bring the interests of all nations to a fixed point of union. [...]
So many different minds; so many contrary views; so many state of interests diametrically opposed to one another, leaving gaps behind that the spirit of mediation cannot fill."
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Our new acquisitions
Borges needs some space ◇ Porter’s brothers are watching you
Hugnet’s pièce de Résistance ◇ An Affair in full Blum ◇ No fisher is an island
Don't you know, Sartre is talking ‘bout a revolution?
Tristan’s turned to bust ◇ Jules is a friend of mine
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PICASSO & HUGNET
& DUCHAMP & MIRÓ
Non vouloir - Au dépens des mots
1940 et 1941 ◇ Au dépens des mots 1941
Complete collection of Surrealist poems published under the Nazi Occupation.
Rare complete set of four pamphlets with poems by Georges Hugnet in first edition, illustrated by Picasso, Joan Miro, and Valentine Hugo. The first titled "Non-vouloir" was limited to only 26 copies; our copy is one of the 20 copies on vergé antique de Montval. The three others on ordinary paper from a limited edition of 200 copies.
"Non-vouloir" was the first resistance poem published openly and signed by its author without being subjected to censorship.
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Jorge Luis BORGES
Roger CAILLOIS (Trad.)
L'Aleph
[The Aleph]
Gallimard ◇ Paris 1967
First French edition, translation by Roger Caillois and René L. F. Durand, one of 33 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe paper issue.
Rare and very fine copy.
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Victor HUGO
Les Travailleurs de la mer
[Toilers of the Sea]
Lib. internationale A. Lacroix & Cie | Paris • Bruxelles [Brussels] • Leipzig • Livourne [Livorno] ◇ 1866
First edition, with no edition statement.
Without doubt, just after The Man Who Laughs, Hugo’s greatest novelistic achievement, depicting on the island of Guernsey the struggle of a solitary man against the ocean.
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[Anna Maria PORTER]
Élisabeth de BON (Trad.)
Les Frères Anglais, roman traduit de l'anglais
Chez H. Nicolle • De l'Imprimerie de C.-F. Patris ◇ Paris 1814
First edition of the French translation.
Anonymous work attributed to Anna Maria Porter, which inspired Stendhal's masterpiece The Charterhouse of Parma.
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[DREYFUS AFFAIR]
Léon BLUM
Souvenirs sur l'Affaire
[Recollections of the Affair]
Gallimard ◇ Paris 1935
First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on alfa paper, our copy not specifically numbered, issued as the only deluxe paper copies.
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(Tristan BERNARD)
Original photograph depicting the bust of Tristan Bernard created by Nicolas Wahl
Universal press agency ◇ Paris [1934]
Manuscript annotations by Carlo Rim on verso in blue ink: Tristan Bernard-Nicolas Wahl 1934.
Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author of "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, and filmmaker who was notably a friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol, as well as Max Jacob, Tristan Bernard and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary.
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Jean-Paul SARTRE
Unpublished Manuscript on Bourgeois Ideology and the French Revolution
[1952] ◇ 12 leaves
A previously unpublished set of reflections by Jean-Paul Sartre on social structure and bourgeois ideology, probably written in 1952 as part of a projected screenplay on the revolutionary period. This series of interior dialogues on the nature of individual and collective power constitutes an early draft of the ideas later developed in his 1960 masterpiece, Critique of Dialectical Reason.
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Jules VERNE
Les Indes noires. Le Chancellor
[The Black Indies. The Chancellor]
Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel et Cie ◇ Paris 1903-1904
New edition, illustrated with drawings by J. Ferrat including several polychrome plates hors-texte produced by Belin Frères and appearing here for the first time.
Publisher's "golden globe" binding signed Engel, first cover plate by Blanchelande, spine with lighthouse, second cover of Engel "i" type, with the monogram JH in straight letters.
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