La ligne verte

First edition, review copy.
Bel autograph signed and dated by Henri Pourrat Robert Garric, "... this little book provides you with all my friendship, my property joyous congratulations on the price if deserved that honor going to you in Belleville you are. you also on the green line, that of the people, Christian health, great nature: I would be especially pleased that this book was made ??for you friend ... "
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! "
Pitting on the back, and some flat sheets.