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FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 70 PRESS SERVICE COPIES, after 15 numbered copies on Arches paper, 20 on vellum pur fil, and 1300 on vellum.

Inscribed and signed by the author :

For Max-Pol Fouchet
and the "Fontaine" magazine
the day after the victory.
Pierre Jean Jouve
30 May 1945.

Packed with an invitation to the "Poetry Armygiven by the author in Zurich on 14 June 1945.

Television made its appearance in homes in the early 50s, and with it the image of Max-Pol Fouchet, who established himself as a defender of culture on the small screen. He hosted the programme "Lectures pour tous", which ran for 15 years.
Known to the general public through his television persona, Max-Pol Fouchet had already, during the Occupation, built up a large network of artists around the magazine Fontaine, which he had taken over in 1939. Based in Algiers, he published texts by poets opposed to the Vichy regime, in an act of "Resistance in the Light". Louis Aragon, André Frénaud, Jules Supervielle, Henri Michaux and René Char were among the contributors to the magazine, which published 63 issues and is considered one of the major publications of the "Intellectual Resistance". Liberté" first appeared in the pages of Fontaine.