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FRANCE (Anat ole). Queen Pedauque's Rotisserie....

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FRANCE (Anat ole). Queen Pedauque's Rotisserie. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1920. In-18, (4)-388 pp., red demimaroquin with corners, spine with nerves, gilt edges, covers and spine preserved (P.-L. Martin). Originally published by the same publisher in 1893. EXAMPLE OF THE AUTHOR WITH AUTOGRAPHIC CORRECTIONS for the 1921 reprint, still by Calmann-Lévy. Among these corrections, several paragraphs are crossed out on pages 305 to 310, including the first to be replaced by the text of TWO SELF-GRAPHED SHEETS ON THE CONCUPISCENCE, belonging to a speech by Father Jérôme Coignard who sees in the laws of the city a divine institution which justifies the theocracy (2 ff. in-4, bound near the passages concerned).

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