Description

FIRST EDITION  without large paper.
PRESENTATION COPY S.P. printed on the first plate and stamped on the fourth.
A printed card "Author's Tribute"is attached.

It was in June 1936 that Drieu joined the Parti Populaire, which Jacques Doriot had just founded:

"It is a question of making it possible for the masses who want to devote themselves to men who promise them not the moon, but a possible homeland, and for leaders who have acquired a sense of command to be able to exercise their command without having to lie."(page 157).