Gabriel Chevallier / Dubout - Clochemerle - 1945

Fascinating numbered edition 12775 on Arches vellum paper and illustrated by Dubout of this satirical novel that depicts the life of an imaginary village in Beaujolais, the scene of a burlesque conflict and revealing the political, religious, and social passions of provincial France in the interwar period -

The plot arises from a seemingly harmless project by the mayor, Barthélemy Piéchut, who decides to install a public urinal near the church to improve the hygiene of the town, but this initiative triggers a disproportionate quarrel between supporters of the Republican municipal government and the conservative camp led by the priest and the Catholic notables -

The novel then unfolds a succession of comic scenes, petty plots, fiery speeches, and comical incidents, where each character embodies a social and ideological type, from local elected officials to gossips and ardent militants -

Chevallier observes with irony the rivalries of the steeple, the pride of the aldermen, moral hypocrisy, and the excesses of religious zeal or anticlericalism, turning a simple matter of a public file of outhouses into a symbol of the French ideological fractures -

Gabriel Chevallier / Dubout - Clochemerle - 1945 - Flammarion -
338 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, paperback in its illustrated original wraparound cover, slight signs of use, cover with traces of time, two small pieces of tape at the heads, speckled edges, title and author on the front and spine, the village coat of arms of Clochemerle in color on the first cover -

Very good interior condition, the work enriched with beautiful color illustrations in and out of the text including a frontispiece and on a double page after the drawings of Dubout, a fine numbered copy 12775 on Arches vellum paper, interior fresh -

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