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FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 560 NUMBERED COPIES ON LAID PAPERThis is the last large paper edition, after 20 numbered copies on Japon, 35 copies on Hollande van Gelder, and 112 on Arches vellum.

Autograph signed letter to the poet and writer Max-Pol Fouchet director of the magazine Fountain:

For Max-Pol Fouchet
the poet and the valiant spirit that leads
the "Fountain" action,
with faith and affection.
Pierre Jean Jouve
Geneva. January 1942.

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.