ECOLE ESTIENNE, Maurice DONNAY
Le vingt-troisième
Ecole municipale Estienne|Paris 1924|14.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on Arches paper, one draw and 15 after 5 Japan Holland paper.
Signed autograph of Maurice Donnay 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. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "
Decorated book, woodcut, typographically compound and fired by the students of the Ecole Estienne.
A small tear in the middle of the back, first guard slightly and partially shaded minor, nice copy decorated in Art Deco style.
Signed autograph of Maurice Donnay 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. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "
Decorated book, woodcut, typographically compound and fired by the students of the Ecole Estienne.
A small tear in the middle of the back, first guard slightly and partially shaded minor, nice copy decorated in Art Deco style.
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