CHERAU Marie Etienne Gaston dit Gaston Chérau... Lot 12

CHERAU Marie Etienne Gaston dit Gaston Chérau (Niort 1872-1937), journalist, regionalist writer, and photographer. Africa speaks to you. This text by Gaston Chérau first accompanied the images of the film ""L'Afrique vous parle"", published in Les Cahiers du Studio in 1931 by the Société Générale de Cinématographie, before appearing under the title ""La Brousse romanesque"". Typewritten manuscript consisting of 98 in folio format leaves with notes from the printer and some rare corrections by the hand of Gaston Chérau. In this story, the novelist tells what he knows ""of this splendid land where the great beasts still live for years to come, which will be short, at the pace of the civilization that has accelerated so strangely over the last thirty years"". There are chapters on elephants, the lion, the black panther, the rhinoceros, dog-heads, hunting, the scourge of crops, etc.