Description

NEW EDITION of one of the most important texts of the Literary Resistance.
ONE OF 100 PRESS SERVICE COPIES, after 30 copies on Rives laid paper, 55 on fine white vellum and 1000 on vellum.

There were two earlier versions of the text, Glory 1939 - an entirely non-commercial edition, printed as a manuscript in Dijon in 1940, and Gloryin the collection "Fountain"edited by Max-Pol Fouchet and published in 1942 by Edmond Charlot in Algiers.

Autograph signed letter to Max-Pol Fouchet director of Fontaine magazine:

For Max-Pol Fouchet
on the day of his very friendly visit to Geneva
in perfect unity of thought and self.
Pierre Jean Jouve
30 May 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.