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Voyages au front de Dunkerque à Belfort

1916120 x 190 mm

FIRST EDITION.
SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT

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ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITION from Fighting France.

RARE AUTOGRAPHIC SENDER SIGNED in French:

"To the Captain of St Girons
in memory
grateful to
my visit to Thann
Edith Wharton

"I was given permission to travel to the rear of the fighting line, from Dunkirk to Belfort, and I did so in six expeditions, some of which actually took me to the front line trenches; I wanted to make my impressions known, and I managed to write my articles between my other duties; they appeared in the Scribner's magazine in 1915and immediately afterwards in a volume entitled Fighting France."
Edith Wharton arrives in  the town of Thann in Alsace on 13 August 1915, when the town had just been administered by a military mayor, Captain Saint Girons (one of the town's streets now bears his name). It then left for Belfort on its way back to the Lorraine Vosges Front.
Seeing the misery and despair in the front line, Edith Wharton set up asylums for refugees, which housed up to 600 war orphans. Taking advantage of a network, she raised funds in the United States and opened additional homes that would become the American Hostels for Refugees. For all her work on behalf of the victims of war, Edith Wharton was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1916.

Paris,Plon,1916.In-8, Softcover120 x 190 mm,291 [4] pp.

Spine unstained. Tear on first cover. Partially cut.

Bio

Edith Wharton

(Born in New York on 24 January 1862 and died in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt - Val-d'Oise - on 11 August 1937)

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