Gabriel Chevallier / Dubout - Clochemerle - 1945

Magnificent illustrated edition notably featuring beautiful color plates of this satirical novel, which presents a portrait that is at once humorous, biting and profoundly revealing of provincial French society at the turn of the 20th century, taking as its setting the fictional village of Clochemerle, inspired by the wine-growing communes of Beaujolais -

The plot, of apparent simplicity, stems from the mayor's decision to install a public urinal near the church in order to meet a practical need of the inhabitants frequenting the village square -

This seemingly innocent project nevertheless triggers a quarrel of enormous proportions pitting supporters of municipal progress against defenders of religious and moral traditions -

Very quickly, what could have remained a simple urban planning debate becomes an ideological confrontation where anticlerical Republicans and conservative Catholics oppose one another, each side exploiting the affair to defend its political, religious and social convictions -

Gabriel Chevallier / Dubout - Clochemerle - 1945 - Ernest Flammarion -
373 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, the work in its original half-leather with corners, marbled boards, signs of wear, some minor flaws on the cover, spine with raised bands, gilded title and author name -

Good interior condition, light browning, the work enriched with beautiful colored engravings in and out of text including a frontispiece, fresh interior, endpapers in good condition, a fine copy -

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