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FIRST EDITION posthumous, with a preface by Paul Bourget. Copy of the current edition, after 10 copies on Chine, 20 on Japon Impérial, 70 on Hollande, and 100 hors-commerce on vellum.
SENT BY THE AUTHOR'S FATHER TO LÉON DAUDET :

to Léon Daudet
in sorrowful homage
presented by Jean Psichari
13th April 1916

Autograph note by Léon Daudet, in pencil, p. 120.

This autobiographical novel traces the intellectual and spiritual journey of Ernest Psichari, who renounced his anti-militarist ideals, joined the colonial troops and converted to Catholicism. Killed in action on 22 August 1914, Ernest Psichari was elevated to the status of national hero by the Action Française movement, to which he had become close.

The first chapter of the book appeared in L'Illustration at Christmas 1915.