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RARE FIRST EDITION
COPY ON LARGE PAPER with a blue cover and thick "Canson" watermarked paper.

This long poem in XXXII parts won the Guy Foundation poetry prize for 1844.

AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER TO THE COUNT OF SALESa descendant of Saint François de Sales:

To His Excellency
The Count of Sales
A respectful tribute to the author
F.-M. Bebert

Autograph correction made by the author to his name, incorrectly printed as "J.-M. Bebert".

"Saint Francis de Sales was born on 21 August 1567. His life and works were the books with which my father taught me to read. With the memories of the time, I measured these few verses, written as they were thought, as they came, without art or pretension."

Ccfr: 2 libraries: Chambéry, Tolbiac (BnF)