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FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 210 NUMBERED COPIES ON VELLUM PUR FIL LAFUMA after 2 copies on China paper reserved for the author, 25 copies on Japon paper and 70 copies on Hollande paper; followed by 1,495 copies on Alfa paper.

Marianne" collection (directed by Henri Béraud), illustrated with 8 double-sided plates reproducing 24 black photographs or documents from the period, including portraits of Emile Zola and Edouard Drumont, Marcel Proust as a soldier...

"There are dates that fall and others that crumble into dust. Whereas 1896 or 1907 are forgotten and for us nothing more than outdated hours, 1900 is a deadline, a jubilee, the golden wedding of the past and the future."

A well-bound copy.