La belle mignonne

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Publishers'binding "cartonnage", smooth back slightly insolated, illustrated boards.
Signed autograph of Henry Pourrat Robert Garric pasted on a ticket on the first watch, "... this saga of farmers and Ogres lords in their purse for ..."
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! "
Book decorated with illustrations in black and colors, and Inserts in Albert Uriet.
spine slightly insolated, small rips a minor bit.