Henry Pontoy - Euloge Rene: The Sons Of The Shadow 1932

Illustrations by Henry PONTOY, long handwritten dedication of the author dated 1939 Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1932, in-4 paperback. Illustrated 12 out of text by Henri Pontoy. Numbered copy on Vélin de Rives (n ° 490). Some foxing, used back (see descriptive photos) 28 cm by 23 cm "René Euloge settled in Morocco in 1920, in Demnat, a small town surrounded by its ocher walls, a hundred kilometers from Marrakech. He traveled for years through the High Atlas, sharing bread and salt with herders and shepherds and their bitter lives, collecting their tales, their traditions and dramatic confidences. Written in 1928-29, my observations are likely to offer only a retrospective interest especially in the difficult circumstances we live and in the agonizing uncertainty of tomorrow ... But they are still such that I would have but now, with hindsight, now that Morocco is unified as a whole, I realize that I have portrayed in my stories not the Sons of Shadow but the Last Sons of 'Shadow". This book is a hymn to the beauty of the Middle Atlas and its inhabitants. The sympathy of its author to the cause of the Berber resistance breaks with the works of the time. "