New edition. Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has small harmless tears at head and foot of spine. Beautiful full-page autograph inscription signed by Jean d'Ormesson to Alain Kerlorc'h and his wife: "Pour l'ambassadeur de Bretagne, ce monde évanoui - mais vivant, avec les voeux diplomatiques de J. d'Ormesson..." ["For the ambassador of Brittany, this vanished world - but living, with the diplomatic wishes of J. d'Ormesson..."]