Oraisons funèbres

First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on Holland paper, the deluxe issue.

A fine copy.

Oraisons funèbres brings together the major addresses delivered by André Malraux, then Minister of Cultural Affairs, at official ceremonies:The commemoration of the Liberation of Paris (1958)Tribute to Greece (1959)To Save the Monuments of Upper Egypt (1960)The centenary of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1960)The funeral of Georges Braque (1963), The commemoration of the death of Joan of Arc (1964)The funeral of Le Corbusier (1965) The transfer of Jean Moulin’s ashes to the Panthéon (1964).  The address on Jean Moulin, culminating in the celebrated apostrophe « Entre ici, Jean Moulin ! », remains one of the most famous examples of French political oratory of the twentieth century.