Gaston Chérau / Edelmann - Valentine Pacquault - 1927

Beautiful illustrated color edition of Gaston Chérau's novel, decorated with beautiful watercolor compositions by Charles-Auguste Edelmann (1879-1950).

Published in the "Les Beaux Livres" collection and printed in 1000 copies. This one, one of the copies on Rives, numbered 215.
Our copy is enriched with Gaston Chéreau's business card.

Preserved in a luxurious chocolate-brown half-morocco binding, gilt fillets along the covers and corners, ribbed spine decorated with the title in gilt letters. Gilt top edge. Covers and spine preserved.
Very fine copy, solid and clean binding, well made. Sunned spine. Impeccable interior.

From the moment it was published, the heroine was compared to Emma Bovary. François Pacquault, an orphan raised by three old ladies, his aunts, who run a boarding school for young girls in Argenton in Indre, must do his military service in Saint-Léger (Saint-Maixent-l’Ecole, in Deux-Sèvres). To make these three years seem less difficult for him to live, they decide to marry him off and choose, from among their former boarders, Valentine Duperrier...

Marie Étienne Gaston Chérau, known as Gaston Chérau, born in Niort on November 6, 1872 and died in Boston (United States) on April 20, 1937 at the age of 64, was a French journalist, man of letters and photographer.
After a short career in the civil service, he devoted himself entirely to his activities as a regionalist writer, journalist and photographer from 1902. Elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1926, he died in the United States during a series of lectures he was giving for the Alliance Française.

Gaston Chérau, Edelmann
Valentine Pacquault
Paris, Mornay, 1927
492pp, in-8 (20 x 15cm)q