Oraisons funèbres

First edition, one of 310 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe issue after the 80 copies on Holland paper.A fine copy despite the spine and lower cover being lightly and marginally sunned.

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.