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Cinq Mars

1842120 x 190 mm

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED.

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Eighth edition preceded by Reflections on Truth in Art.

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"to M. Avenel as a token of friendship, Alfred de Vigny".

According to Jean-Pierre Lassallewhen the first edition of Cinq-MarsVigny had expressly asked the publisher Urbain Canel to send one of the large paper copies to Denis Avenel.

Denis Avenel (1782-1875), a critic with the Revue de Paris, Encyclopaedic magazineat the Constitutional, at Universal Monitor,  and Courrier français, was director of the Bibliothèque Saint Geneviève. His eight volumes of Letters, diplomatic instructions and state papers of Cardinal de Richelieupublished between 1853 and 1877.

Copy in contemporary binding.

 

 

Paris,G. Charpentier,1842.In-12, Bound,120 x 190 mm,520 pp. table.

Bound in contemporary chocolate brown half-chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt title, gilt head. Cover not preserved.

Bio

Alfred de Vigny

(born on 27 March 1797 in Loches - died on 17 September 1863 in Paris 8th)

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