Mission providentielle

Strictly hors commerce first edition, one of 60 numbered copies on vellum, the only deluxe copies after 5 on Holland paper.
Handsome and very rare full-margined copy of this work which denounces the misdeeds of French colonization in the Maghreb.
Mission providentielle, published in 65 copies at the author's expense under the pseudonym François Lazerge, consists of a first version of La Rose de sable which would appear, in its definitive version, at Henri Lefebvre in 1967.
Finally, fearing to attract the wrath of the authorities, Henri de Montherlant refused to distribute Mission providentielle and published it only privately.