One of 325 copies on pur fil paper, from the first group of copies (no. 32).
Publisher's wraparound band preserved.
Symbolically published on August 25, 1944, the day of the Liberation of Paris, this essay by Lucien Nachin marks one of the very first editorial tributes paid to General de Gaulle in France itself, only days after his entry into the capital.
A lawyer, journalist and Resistance member from the outset, Nachin here draws a vivid portrait of de Gaulle, distributed in the first days of the Liberation, notably through Parisian Gaullist networks and the newly reconstituted patriotic bookshops.
Top of his class at the Saint-Maixent military school and an officer at twenty-three, Lucien Nachin spent the Great War in captivity; his first exchanges with de Gaulle date from the 1920s. A lieutenant-colonel in 1928, he also directed a series devoted to the classics of military art at Berger-Levrault, in which the General’s own war writings would be published.
Original publisher’s wraparound band preserved.