M. De Lescure / F. Méaulle - Les Deux France - 1889

Superb editor’s cardboard binding for this illustrated novel of 120 wood engravings recounting a hundred years of French history from the Revolution of 1789 to the end of the 19th century, presented as a tale transmitted by a centenarian grandfather to his grandchildren to illustrate the political, social and moral upheavals that profoundly transformed the nation -

The work symbolically opposes “the two France,” that is, traditional, monarchist, Catholic and conservative France, to revolutionary, republican, secular and modern France born from the events of 1789 -

Through the narrator’s memories, the reader successively follows the fall of the Ancien Régime, the revolutionary violence, the Terror, the wars of the Republic, the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the imperial campaigns, the Restoration of the monarchy, the July Monarchy, the 1848 revolution, the Second Empire, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and the establishment of the Third Republic -

M. De Lescure / F. Méaulle - Les Deux France - 1889 - Librairie Ducrocq -
553 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, the book in its full red cardboard binding adorned with publisher’s decoration, slight wear, some minor defects on the cover, spine slightly faded, tips worn, handsome gilded edges, smooth spine beautifully decorated, title and author’s name gilt, first cover superbly illustrated, black ink rules on the back cover -

Good interior condition, some soiling, title page adorned with a fine vignette, book enriched with 120 wood engravings in the text and on plates including a frontispiece by F. Méaulle, blue flyleaves in very good condition, a pleasant copy -

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