Unique copy, with proofs, photographs and autograph letters from Maurras

• In-4, half navy blue shagreen with bands, first cover preserved, spine ribbed, gilt head, 37 pp. Off-text compositions. Beautiful copy.

First edition, one of 290 copies on vellum in the form of Papeteries d'Arches. Single copy enriched with 17 ff. of corrected proofs: the first 21 pp. the first of which is surmounted by an unselected composition by Carlègle), 3 original photographs (two at the Saint-Symphorien clinic in 1952, a third, signed by Maurras, in which he appears with Armand Fallières), a beautiful portrait (Pierre Ligier, undated) and 23 handwritten letters and notes laminated with typewritten transcription opposite, addressed to his friend Marie-Reine Debrand between 1925 and 1938. An attentive, warm and informed correspondence (Marie-Reine Debrand is the secretary of 'Anatole de Monzie), where Maurras gives himself up willingly, with nobility and firmness. Through a few letters: about La Cagoule, Georges Valois and Navarre (Loustaunau-Lacau) “A(natole) de M(onzie) atones, because of these two guys, for the reputation of being our friend”; “all of this will end up creating counter-returning forces which will be directed!” (there is further mention of Blum, “and the Jewish ferment that rises in his mouth”); Mauriac rewarded “the poor man” with the “beautiful advantage of nature”…