Signé ; Charles Maurras - Les Amants de Venise / Le Chemin de Paradis / Anthinéa [3 envois à René Benjamin - S.P.] - 1926

Three-volume Reunion

Charles Maurras

The Lovers of Venice
George Sand and Musset

Paris, Flammarion, 1926, in-12 pamphlet edition of 359 pages

Copy for Press Service with a signed inscription by the author to René Benjamin, writer, journalist, lecturer.

He is the author of a series of studies on morals regarding the Palace of Justice, the Sorbonne, the Hotel des Ventes.
His novel, Gaspard, won the Goncourt Prize in 1915. He wrote it at the Tours hospital, where he stayed for several months after being severely wounded in 1914. He had several plays performed on stage and worked as a portraitist with works devoted to Antoine, to Barrès, to Balzac, to Maurras, to Sacha Guitry and to Molière. His Prodigious Life of Honoré de Balzac (1925) launched the famous in its time collection of the “Roman of Great Existences” from the Plon publishing house. Friend of Maurras and Léon Daudet, he supported Marshal Pétain during the German occupation. He entered the Goncourt Academy in 1938, but from 1944 onward, while La Varende preferred to resign, he was no longer summoned to academy lunches, just like Jean Ajalbert and Sacha Guitry.

The Lovers of Venice is a study by Charles Maurras analyzing the liaison between Alfred de Musset and George Sand between 1833 and 1835. The work explores the causes and consequences of this famous romantic relationship, drawing on historical and literary documents.

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Charles Maurras

The Path to Paradise
Philosophical Tales

Paris, Flammarion, 1927, in-12 pamphlet edition of 283 pages

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Early work of Charles MAURRAS (1868-1952) gathering 9 short texts ("equaling the number of the Muses," the author notes) grouped into 3 themes: "Religions," "Pleasures," "Harmonies," with notes at the end; preceded by a poem by Anatole FRANCE:

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Charles Maurras

Anthinéa
From Athens to Florence

Paris, Flammarion, 1926, in-12 pamphlet edition of 282 pages

Copy for Press Service with a signed inscription by the author to René Benjamin

The account of a great journey undertaken by Maurras to go to Greece for the first revival of the Olympic Games. A voyage through Greece, Corsica and Italy for a return to Provence. A narrative where the admiration of landscapes and monuments blends with philosophical reflections on the value of classical civilization. A new edition of this foundational text of Charles Maurras’s classical thought.

Contents: The Athens journey - A Greek and French city - Figures from Corsica - The museum of human passions in Florence - The Tuscan genius - The return and the hearth, Provence notes."