Full title: "Le Déserteur. Peintre d'Images. [l'Exposition inaugurée le 5 juillet 1967] Musée des Arts" Cover is title page. Large - but light - softback book. Produced for an exhibition in July 1967 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Colour illustrated covers. The Swiss artist Charles Frédéric Brun was often known as "The Deserter" after an imaginary biography was made famous by Jean Giono's novel of the same name. With an introduction by the museum's chief curator, François Mathey, and including an extract from the text of Jean Giono's novel. [10] pp., [7] loosely inserted colour sheets.