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[LITERATURE]
MENARD (Louis):
Rêveries d'un païen mystique. Preface by Maurice Barrès, of the Académie française.
Etched portrait by G. Noyon.
Paris. Durel, Bookseller, 1900.
In-4°. Paperback. [3] ff. xxxvi–180 pp., [2] ff.
Frontispiece portrait of the author, etched by Georges Noyon
Limited edition of only 240 copies. A very fine copy, one of the 20 printed on old Japanese paper. A copy inscribed to the bookseller and bibliophile, Léopold Carteret, featuring the portrait in two states.
Talvart and Place, XIV, 173.
Louis Ménard (1822–1901) was a friend of Baudelaire’s; his poetry is imbued with mysticism and Hellenic philosophy.
Maurice Barrès, who wrote the preface, was profoundly influenced by his thinking: ‘I have often sought to understand the veritable scandal that is the failure of Louis Ménard. How could one of the most original minds of his time, both a painter and a poet (...) admired by Renan, Michelet, Gautier and Sainte-Beuve, have lived and died in such complete obscurity?”
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10/15/2026 at 1:00 PM
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