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219. BOURGET (Paul). L'étape. Paris, Plon-Nourrit, s.d. (190 - Lot 219
219. BOURGET (Paul). L'étape. Paris, Plon-Nourrit, s.d. (1902). In-8, [4] f., 516 p., [2] f. Binding of the period signed in red morocco, spine decorated with gilt fillets and a monogram. Dishes framed with a double fillet. Gilt arms stamped in the center of the boards, and not identified. Heads guilloche, double-filet on the edges, inner lace, all edges gilt, including gutter and tail on witnesses, cover cons. (Marcellin Lortic). Binding signed by M. Lortic in morocco. Edition of 150 copies on large paper, one of the 100 copies on Hollande. Envoi from the author on the front of the justification page to Madame la duchesse de ? The name could not be deciphered.
A traditionalist novel, L'Étape relates the social ascent and conversion of a young man who comes from an anti-clerical socialist background and who ends up blossoming in monarchism and Catholicism. L'Étape is one of the major novels of Paul Bourget, who inaugurates in his work "the novel of ideas". Bourget tries to show that the French society is sick of the egalitarian ideas promulgated by the French Revolution. His novel is a violent criticism of the democratic system. This work aroused many hostile reactions but received the support of the Action française.
A very nice copy, slight rubbing on the beginning of the spine of the upper board.
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