Léon Bloy - L'Ame de Napoléon - 1912

Numbered no. 15/24, on Dutch paper. The pages have not yet been opened or trimmed. Loose cardboard cover with title on the spine, in a sliding box. Bloy defends Napoleon against his critics. He sees the emperor as a destroyer of the old, corrupt world. It is a mix of history and theology, written in Léon Bloy’s typically combative, polemical, and apocalyptic manner of writing.