Barrès (mauritius) - Chronicle Of The Great War. Plon, 1920 To 1924, Paperback, Sent By Blanche.

BARRÈS (Mauritius) - Chronicle of the Great War. Paris, Bookstore. Plon, Plon-Nourrit et Cie, 1920-1924; in-8, III + 302 + 370 + 366 + 384 + 370 + 388 + 374 + 394 + 386 + 363 + 410 pp., paperback, printed covers. The 11 volumes. Maurice Barrès was born in 1862 in Charmes (Vosges) and died on December 4, 1923 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Seine), is a French writer and politician, leading figure of French nationalism. The first axis of his thought is “the cult of the Self”. He affirms that our first duty is to defend our self against the “Barbarians”, that is to say against everything which risks weakening it in the development of its own sensitivity. The second axis is summarized by the expression "the earth and the dead" which testify to the evolution of Maurice Barrès towards republican nationalism and traditionalism, the attachment to the roots, to the family, to the army and to the homeland. He remained one of the leading thinkers of the nationalist right during the interwar period. The first 11 volumes. This column was intended for all French people. "To all the inhabitants, who suffered through their thoughts and their souls. To all the correspondents, who, from the four corners of France, sent their cry of hope and their reasons, of which the author was the bearer. word. Finally, to all those soldiers, who upon dying, bequeathed their war notebooks... To all those unknown people who handed over their supreme writings, sometimes stained with their blood. May they be thanked." Incredible testimony to this war, which will leave posterity with the feeling that it was the greatest of all. Numbered copy, on large pure paper with large margins. The first volume bears the dedication: To Jacques-Emile Blanche, annalist of the war, his old friend and administrator Maurice Barrès, Charmes-Sur-Moselle Oct 1920. The second volume bears a shorter dedication: To Jacques-Emile Blanche, his friend Barrès .