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Institut de France. Académie Française.
See original version (French)
128
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Institut de France. Académie Française.
See original version (French)
Estimate €40 - €60
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Institut de France. Académie Française. Speeches delivered at the public sitting held by the Académie Française to welcome Mr Alexandre Dumas the Younger on 11 February 1875. Paris, Typographie Firmin Didot, 1875.
In-4, paperback.
[1 folio], 74 pp. First edition. Dumas Fils’s speech appears on pp. 2–39, that of the Count of Haussonville on pp. 41–74.
Vicaire III, 477.
Rare
Included:
- Alexandre DUMAS Fils. Speech delivered at the Académie Française on the day of his induction, 11 February 1875. – Speech by Mr d’Haussonville, Director of the Académie, in response to the speech delivered by Mr Alexandre Dumas Fils on the occasion of his induction into the Académie on 11 February 1875. Paris, Didier et Cie, 1875.
In-8, blue half-shagreen, bookplate.
86 pp. Dumas Fils’s speech occupies pp. 5–45, that of the Count d’Haussonville pp. 47–86.
Vicaire III, 478.
Bound together with:
[J. POISLE DESGRANGES]. A Letter from Beyond the Grave to Mr Alexandre Dumas in response to his acceptance speech at the public session of the Académie Française on 11 February 1895.
Paris, Available from all bookshops, 1875. 16 pp.
A defence of Pierre Lebrun, who was severely criticised by Dumas the Younger, who succeeded him in seat no. 2.
See original version (French)
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