Mercure de France, n°413 à 416, tome CXI, année 1915

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey mouse-colored cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by L. Luce, M. Muret, L. Bloy "Jeanne d'Arc et l'Allemagne", R. de Gourmont "Dieu ou l'Autre", A. Rouvert "Quelques prisonniers allemands", J. Mesnil "L'Allemagne et l'Histoire de l'art", A. Heumann "Ce que la France doit aux écrivains belges", F. Viélé-Griffin, Rachilde "La Délivrance", A. Fontainas "Le Courage belge", P. Dermée "L'Allemagne jugée par ses grands hommes", P. Lasserre "La Jeunesse d'Ernest Renan", D. A. Wilson "Carlyle et l'Empire allemand", Péladan, G. Apollinaire.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French review, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the impetus of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and offered symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually gaining recognition, this review published both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witnessed the flowering of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house was born in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?